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Farming Today: Chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies, African farmers and a lady molecatcher.

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15/08/2016

Chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies, African farmers and a lady molecatcher.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies, African farmers and a lady molecatcher.

Felicity Evans examines the chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies.

Felicity Evans examines the chancellor's announcement about future farm subsidies, looks at African farming and meets a lady mole catcher.

The government ends post Brexit uncertainty by guaranteeing subsidies for food production until 2020, but leaves a question mark over environment subsidies. 

This week we'll be looking at farming in Africa and will be following a group of Nuffield Farming Scholars. Nuffield is a scheme which sponsors individuals from the farming world to travel and study food production globally. The idea is their findings will benefit their businesses, and the wider industry, back home. This installment comes from South Africa, where the Scholars meet an inspirational group of 'future farmers'.

Lastly we hear from a traditional mole catcher. There are 33 million moles in Britain and that number is rising. In the past they bred only once a year, in March. But as the climate changes, moles have begun breeding in September as well. Poisoning moles with Strychnine has been illegal for a decade. And last year legislation was brought in requiring a certificate of competence to use chemical alternatives, giving more work to traditional mole catchers. 

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