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Farming Today: Rapeseed, Sustainable meat, Save Our Sucklers

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13/01/2016

Rapeseed, Sustainable meat, Save Our Sucklers

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Rapeseed, Sustainable meat, Save Our Sucklers

We meet the farmers selling direct to consumers, plus a call to 'Save Our Sucklers'.

Farming Today visits the Cotswolds to meet a farmer selling rapeseed oil direct to the consumer, and Ladies in Beef have a new campaign to 'Save our Sucklers'.

On Farming Today this week we're meeting the farmers who've cut out the middle man and are selling direct to the consumer. Our reporter Beatrice Fenton is in Broadway in Worcestershire to meet a farmer who's growing and pressing rapeseed oil for cooking.

Ladies In Beef have launched a new battle cry: 'Save Our Sucklers'. Sucklers are beef calves who stay with their mums and are reared in the traditional way, on a diet of milk, grass, silage and kale. Andrew Dawes reports from Jilly Greed's farm near Exeter in Devon and finds out more about the campaign to get you to eat more suckler beef.

And we're in Bristol to hear how scientists and academics are wrestling with the global challenge of producing meat AND protecting the environment. Professor Mark Eisler from Bristol University believes livestock has a role in world food security.

Presenter: Anna Hill
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe .

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