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Farming Today: Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2015

Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2015

08/08/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2015

Harvest 2015 is underway. Felicity Evans checks progress in the Cotswolds.

Harvest 2015 is underway. Felicity Evans checks progress in the Cotswolds as the oil seed rape is gathered in.

The combines are rolling in Harvest 2015 - we're in the Cotswolds as the oil seed rape is gathered in.

Harvest talk used to be confined to neighbours and friends in the pub - now the savvy, media friendly farmers are sharing their harvest with the world via social media & blogging.

Harvest and drinking beer go hand in hand, so we report on the malting barley harvest in Cornwall.

And pumpkins may make you think of autumn - the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. But think again! We've news of an unusual summer pumpkin harvest just off the M25 in north London.

Presenter: Felicity Evans
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe.

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