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Farming Today: 07/05/2022 EFRA committee, Farm security, Agricultural machinery show LAMMA

07/05/2022 EFRA committee, Farm security, Agricultural machinery show LAMMA

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What next for EFRA after resignation of its chair Neil Parish? Farm machinery show LAMMA.

EFRA committee to appoint new chair after MP Neil Parish resigns. Farm security and LAMMA farm machinery show. Crayfish rescue. Avian flu restrictions lifted.

The Environment Food and Rural Affairs committee is looking for a new chair after MP Neil Parish resigned. He stood down after admitting watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons.  He'd been EFRA chair since 2015. Head of news at the Farmers Guardian Abi Kay shares her thoughts on who might take up the role next.

We visit the farm machinery show LAMMA at the NEC in Birmingham. What started out in a field as the Lincolnshire Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Association 40 years ago, now attracts more than 600 exhibitors from all over the world.  At Lamma there's a special security zone and police say thefts of tractors and GPS systems continues to be a growing problem, costing 9 million pounds in 2020. 

White clawed crayfish are a rare and important native species and they're under threat from a big aggressive invader - the American signal crayfish. In a bid to save them from extinction, conservationists have released dozens of white-clawed crayfish into a specially created site on the National Trust's Wallington Estate  in Northumberland, 

Freedom day for chickens!  After five months of being indoors because of avian flu restrictions, farmers can now let out their flocks and label their eggs as free-range once more.

Presenter = Charlotte Smith
Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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