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Farming Today: 01/08/22 - Robots on farms, Tenant farmers

01/08/22 - Robots on farms, Tenant farmers

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 01/08/22 - Robots on farms, Tenant farmers

Charlotte Smith finds out about a review of farming robots, and discusses tenant farming.

A review of automation on farms has been published, calling for more cooperation between academia, business and farmers. Charlotte Smith looks at the issues facing tenant farmers.

A review looking into robots on farms has been published, it calls for more cooperation between academia, business and farmers. It also recommends a longer-term seasonal workers scheme so that agriculture has enough staff while the automation industry becomes more mainstream. We hear from a farm in Cornwall where robots are already being used to plant crops.

All this week Farming Today will be looking at tenant farmers. They manage 35% of the UK's farmed land area, and are a vital part of the food growing network. But they face some challenges - from increasingly shorter tenancies to a lack of available land. Council owned farms have also been sold off as the money is needed elsewhere. Charlotte Smith finds out about the difficulties facing tenants.
 
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