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Farming Today: General Election and Farming, VE Day

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11/05/2015

General Election and Farming, VE Day

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, General Election and Farming, VE Day

Anna Hill asks what effect the general election result will have on farming.

What will the surprise general election result mean for the farming community? Anna Hill asks two industry experts for their opinions.

The dust is still settling after the surprise General Election results of last week. As the political parties re-group, and some start the search for new leaders, Farming Today asks what the main issues are likely to be for farmers, post-election. Anna Hill speaks to Alistair Driver, chief political analyst at Farmers Guardian, and the president of the NFU, Meurig Raymond.

It's now seventy years since VE Day, which marked the end of the Second World War in Europe - but the legacy of the war still lives on in the landscape to this day. When the war started, two thirds of the food eaten in Britain was imported, so the government started a massive push for the country to produce more, and the Ministry of Agriculture set up local committees to improve inefficient farms. Anna Hill has a look back through archives of the time.

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