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Farming Today: 11/06/22 Rural housing; Closure of fertiliser plant; Land used for food, nature and energy

11/06/22 Rural housing; Closure of fertiliser plant; Land used for food, nature and energy

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 11/06/22 Rural housing; Closure of fertiliser plant; Land used for food, nature and energy

Rural housing, fertiliser plant closure and land use - for food, conservation and energy.

Right to buy and its impact on affordable rural housing. Closure of fertiliser plant. Land use - for food, nature and energy.

Rural housing schemes say government plans to extend the right-to-buy for housing association tenants will make the lack of homes in the countryside even worse. Keswick Community Land Trust in Cumbria says properties will become unaffordable and it will have a devastating impact on their housing schemes.

Farmers are calling for greater transparency on how fertiliser prices are calculated to help them plan ahead. Costs have soared in the wake of the war in Ukraine and now CF Fertilisers UK which makes much of the fertiliser used by British farmers, is closing one of its two manufacturing plants in the UK.

All week Farming Today has been looking at land use. A new report aims to map out how farmers can integrate nature recovery and agriculture. Financing Nature Recovery UK estimates the potential of commercial investment in nature recovery is up to five billion pounds.

Small scale producers in Wales are being offered grants to help them grow more food on their land. The Food Foundations says consumers are being urged to eat more vegetables and farmers need to dedicate more land to growing them.

In Devon, villagers are fighting plans for a big solar farm on fields near Cullompton, they say productive agricultural land shouldn't be used for solar panels.

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