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Farming Today: Rural payments, WWII bunker on farm, Heritage apples, Sheep shearing

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13/07/2017

Rural payments, WWII bunker on farm, Heritage apples, Sheep shearing

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Rural payments, WWII bunker on farm, Heritage apples, Sheep shearing

Farmers are hit with Rural Payment debt notices - including one for a WWII bunker!

Farmers are hit with Rural Payment debt notices and given only days to settle up. One Wiltshire farmer has been penalised for having a World War II bunker in his field.

We hear this morning how farmers are being hit with Rural Payment debt notices and they've only been given 10 to 15 days to pay up. We're also on a mission to find out why one Wiltshire farmer has been fined over a top secret Second Wold War bunker in his field. Sybil Ruscoe puts on her tin hat to investigate.

Farming Today is on a summer tour looking at food and farming across the country. This week we're focussing on England and today we hear how heritage apples could help today's modern apple growers. We have a special report from an Oxfordshire orchard.

And after presenter Charlotte Smith gave a sort of nasty Mohican haircut to a sheep in Sussex, we're in Scotland with some novice sheep shearers learning how to cut a woolly short back and sides!

Presenter: Charlotte 'Shears' Smith
Producer: Sybil 'Captain Mainwaring' Ruscoe.

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