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Farming Today: 18/03/2020 - Rural businesses adapt to the coronavirus and the future of ELMS

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18/03/2020 - Rural businesses adapt to the coronavirus and the future of ELMS

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 18/03/2020 - Rural businesses adapt to the coronavirus and the future of ELMS

How are rural businesses adapting in the face of the coronavirus?

Anna Hill is presenting from home to comply with coronavirus advice, but what is the crisis meaning for rural businesses?

Farming Today is having to adapt in the face of coronavirus, with Anna Hill presenting from her home. But how are rural businesses coping? We hear from a Gloucestershire pub and a Norwich farm shop.

And should the phasing out of Basic Payments be delayed? We visit one of the new Environmental Land Management Scheme trials and hear concerns about the timeframe for change.

Presented (from home) by Anna Hill
Produced by Heather Simons

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