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Farming Today: Northern Irish Farmers EU Vote, Potatoes for Cosmetics, National Trust Farm Scholarship

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21/06/2016

Northern Irish Farmers EU Vote, Potatoes for Cosmetics, National Trust Farm Scholarship

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Northern Irish Farmers EU Vote, Potatoes for Cosmetics, National Trust Farm Scholarship

The high-stakes Brexit vote for farmers in Northern Ireland.

The high-stakes Brexit vote for farmers in Northern Ireland - and their neighbours in the Irish Republic. Plus how the potato could produce the basis for cosmetic products.

High stakes Brexit vote for farmers in Northern Ireland - and their neighbours in the Irish Republic. As the only part of the UK to share a land border with another EU member state, the debate over Brexit in Northern Ireland is unique and agriculture is at the centre of it. 
In the future the humble potato could produce the basis for a tube of your favourite shower gel or face cream. Scientists at Bath, Exeter, and Norwich are working together to find out how well potato starches could lend themselves to what's known as 'gelation' - or making a gel.
The National Trust run an initiative, in conjunction with the Young Farmers Club of Wales, that gives one young farmer the chance to manage an upland farm in Snowdonia for 12 months.

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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