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Farming Today: Paying Farmers to Flood?

22/01/2016

Paying Farmers to Flood?

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Paying Farmers to Flood?

Defra looks at plans to pay farmers to let their land flood. Charlotte Smith presents.

Farming news presented by Charlotte Smith. Environment secretary Liz Truss confirms that the government is looking into plans to pay farmers to allow their fields to flood.

Environment Secretary Liz Truss confirms the government is looking into plans to pay farmers to allow their fields to flood, to prevent problems further downstream. The money would come out of a European fund - managed by Defra - that aims to improve biodiversity, the environment and encourage rural development. Some farmers we spoke to believe new money should instead be made available. 
We've also been looking at some of the new technology that farmers are using. Today, a horticultural company in Suffolk that uses robots to plant seeds and move seedlings; and we hear from the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on how farmers can use 'big data'. 
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally Challoner.

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