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Farming Today: Game fairs, the Gay Farmer Helpline, taste tourism in Scotland and the question of UK farming in or out of the EU

06/11/2015

Game fairs, the Gay Farmer Helpline, taste tourism in Scotland and the question of UK farming in or out of the EU

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Game fairs, Gay Farmer Helpline, taste tourism and the question of UK farming and the EU.

Are there too many Game Fairs planned next year? The life-saving story of the Gay Farmer Helpline, taste tourism in Scotland and the issue of UK farming in or out the EU.

Are there too many Game Fairs being planned for 2016? One rural commentator says the array of events replacing or duplicating the defunct CLA Game Fair is "laughable". A Cheshire chaplain says the Gay Farmer Helpline he set up is saving lives. Keith Ineson says he talks every week to married, middle-aged men who are living a lie and have nowhere to turn. Food producers and the tourism trade in Scotland are being brought together in the hope that both will benefit from working side by side. As the debate over the EU referendum and the UK's role in Europe begins in earnest, a new report in to farming's future is hotly disputed by former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood.

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