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Farming Today: 19/10/20 Agricultural by-products, rural broadband, vegetable genebank

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19/10/20 Agricultural by-products, rural broadband, vegetable genebank

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 19/10/20 Agricultural by-products, rural broadband, vegetable genebank

Slurry, chicken manure, feathers and straw: the agricultural waste being transformed.

This week on Farming Today we want to explore how the UK is making use of by-products from agriculture, things that some might see as waste but others can make use of. So we’ll talk slurry, chicken manure, feathers and straw.
The regulator Ofcom is investigating BT’s delivery of broadband in hard to reach rural areas. Ofcom appointed BT to deliver the Universal Service Obligation which requires them to help deliver broadband of 10 megabits per second download speed upon request to those in poorly served areas, but is concerned at some of the prices quoted for connection.
The UK Vegetable Genebank, based in Warwickshire, is celebrating its 40th birthday. The Genebank is made up of millions of seeds stored in giant freezers at the University of Warwick.

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