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Farming Today: Late apple harvest, Cox's orange pippin revival, Agricultural education

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20/09/2016

Late apple harvest, Cox's orange pippin revival, Agricultural education

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Late apple harvest, Cox's orange pippin revival, Agricultural education

A wet spring has delayed the year's apple harvest.

Farming news, presented by Anna Hill. A wet spring has delayed the year's apple harvest, but the late summer sun has ensured the fruit have good colour.

This year's wet spring has delayed the apple harvest, but the late summer sun has ensured the fruit have good colour.
One apple grower is reviving the cox's orange pippin apple variety in an orchard in Nottinghamshire.
All this week we're looking at agricultural education and today that takes us to the Allerton Project in Leicestershire. 

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