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Farming Today: 08/01/24 Dutch farmers' party, seaweed farming, feed

08/01/24 Dutch farmers' party, seaweed farming, feed

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 08/01/24 Dutch farmers' party, seaweed farming, feed

A message for British farmers from the Dutch Farmer Citizen Movement.

We hear a message for British farmers from the Dutch farmer's party.  Caroline van der Plas is the leader of the Dutch Farmer Citizen Movement, which now has seven seats in the Dutch Parliament. She set up the party in 2019 after becoming disillusioned with rural offer from political parties in the Netherlands.
The flooding has put much agricultural land under water again, and there are warnings about the impact of that on the amount of food we grow, both for us and for livestock.  This week we're going to be looking at animal feed, where it comes from, what it is and what's changing. 
Seaweed is farmed here in the UK; it's a small but growing industry. Leyla Kazim looks at what its future could look like.

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