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Farm Gate: 02/06/2018

02/06/2018

BBC Radio Ulster - Farm Gate, 02/06/2018

Food, countryside and agricultural issues, focusing on business, industry and technology.

Food security experts have gathered at a summit in Belfast to discuss food fraud, and the UFU joins more than 100 food and farming organisations to set out post-Brexit demands.

Food security experts gathered this week for the Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity 2018. The issue of fraud in the food chain isn't a new one - the horsemeat scandal brought it into the public consciousness in 2013. Delegates discussed ways to combat the threat: one solution is through technology - and some local companies are leading the way. Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Conor Macauley has been to find out more. 

More than 100 food and farming organisations have put their names to a manifesto setting out post-Brexit demands, including assurances around the availability of EU workers after Brexit. We hear from Ulster Farmers Union president Ivor Ferguson. 

With school holidays around the corner children are spending more and more time helping out on the family farm. For farmers, older children can be a great help, but when it comes to driving a tractor there are rules - Kenneth Johnston from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise details how teenagers are being trained on farming's most famous machinery.

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