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Farming Today: 22/11/19: American beef and the U.K.

22/11/19: American beef and the U.K.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 22/11/19: American beef and the U.K.

Anna Hill asks if American beef could appear on our supermarket shelves in the future.

Anna Hill asks Dmitry Grozoubinski if American beef could appear in the U.K. in the future and Anna Jones hears from a farmer in South Dakota who says his U.S. beef is best.

All this week Farming Today has been looking at beef production and today Anna Hill asks whether American beef will be appearing on our supermarket shelves in the future.  

Don Close from Rabobank tells Anna Jones that the UK is an attractive market both in its own right but as a potential stepping-stone into the European Union, and Lyle Perlman who farms beef in South Dakota says that as hormone-free, antibiotic-free or grass-fed beef is available for sale in the States there's no reason why it shouldn't be available to UK consumers too, particularly as in his opinion US beef is superior in taste.  

Trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski tells Anna Hill what the potential trade routes are for the U.S. to export beef to the U.K. and that it's processed beef products such as burgers where consumers seem less concerned about where their meat comes from that may be a viable market for American producers.  

The Food Programme on Sun 24 Nov is also looking at the cost of beef production and Dan Saladino has been to see Simon Farlie, a beef farmer in Dorset who argues that whilst we need to eat less meat to help combat climate change, it's how that meat is produced that's key to our consumption in the future.

Presenter: Anna Hill
Producer: Toby Field

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