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Farming Today: 19/03/2020 - Livestock markets and coronavirus; Environmental Land Management Schemes; Sounds of the countryside

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19/03/2020 - Livestock markets and coronavirus; Environmental Land Management Schemes; Sounds of the countryside

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 19/03/2020 - Livestock markets and coronavirus; Environmental Land Management Schemes; Sounds of the countryside

Covid-19 and livestock markets; natural flood management; and the new Agriculture Bill.

Livestock markets still open, but farmers wonder for how much longer.
Natural flood management - how ELMS may work in future. 
Sounds from the countryside, an antidote to stress.

Open Farm Sunday and the Glastonbury Festival are among the latest casualties of the coronavirus pandemic, but what about the gathering of farmers to sell their animals at livestock auctions? Farmers are concerned that the markets may face restrictions as the virus spreads. We speak to Devon farmer Mike Tewson who's sold hundreds of sheep at market this week, and the man in charge of Hereford Market Richard Hyde, who says auctions are a vital part of our food chain.

All week we’re focusing on the new Environmental Land Management Schemes being planned in the Agriculture Bill.  We visit a farmer who's been paid public money for public goods for his work on natural flood management on his dairy farm in Somerset.

And the sounds of the countryside - an antidote to the stress of Covid-19.

Presented by Sybil Ruscoe in her spare room.
Produced by Rebecca Rooney

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