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Farming Today: 10/08/22 - Combine harvester fires, soil science, pea harvest

10/08/22 - Combine harvester fires, soil science, pea harvest

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 10/08/22 - Combine harvester fires, soil science, pea harvest

Fires in farm machinery are up by 35%. Caz Graham finds out why.

In the current hot dry weather, fires in farm machinery are happening at the rate of two a day. Caz Graham talks to a farmer who saw his combine harvester go up in flames.

With tinder-dry conditions in many parts of country, fires in farm machinery are at record levels. The insurer NFU Mutual is recording two a day on average - which means that numbers are up by 35%. We hear from a farmer in Buckinghamshire who experienced a combine harvester fire first-hand this week. Caz Graham asks the Farm Safety Foundation what farmers can do to reduce the risk of a blaze.

As temperatures rise and our climate changes, experts are warning that the way we grow our food will have to change too. We visit the Allerton Project - a demonstration farm in Leicestershire, where they're researching what that might look like. 

Continuing a week-long look at this year's harvest, we're out in Lincolnshire with the pea viners.

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