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Farming Today: 23/01/24 Grocery debate; Bird flu compensation; Fishermen medicals; Family farms and succession.

23/01/24 Grocery debate; Bird flu compensation; Fishermen medicals; Family farms and succession.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 23/01/24 Grocery debate; Bird flu compensation; Fishermen medicals; Family farms and succession.

Petition triggers debate about the way supermarkets deal with the farmers who supply them.

More than 100,000 people sign a petition and trigger a debate about the way supermarkets deal with the producers who supply them.

More than 100 thousand people have signed an online petition and triggered an MPs' debate about the way supermarkets deal with the farmers and producers who supply them. The campaign is calling for the Grocery Supply Code of Practice and the role of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, the GCA, to be reformed.

A group of poultry farmers have won a High Court case against the government's Animal & Plant Health Agency, over compensation for farmers whose flocks were  affected by avian flu. The court ruled that the APHA had 'wrongly interpreted' the law under the avian influenza compensation scheme. The case was brought by the National Farmers Union who argued that the time taken between reporting an outbreak and the arrival of government staff to assess compensation, meant that many birds died before the APHA could get there, and so were not counted as part of the compensation.

A fisherman who underwent gastric sleeve surgery to pass newly introduced medical requirements, says he's incredulous to hear the rules may now be changed. Brian Tapper from Plymouth says a high Body Mass Index put his career at sea in doubt, when the new health checks came into force in November.  He spent £12,000 to have an operation so he could meet the weight requirements. Some of his colleagues have sold their boats. However, now the government has announced it is going hold a consultation on the requirements, without forcing small-scale fishers ashore. 

All this week on Farming Today we’re talking about family farms. But what happens when the next generation decides they don’t want to carry on the family tradition of farming? We visit a a farm in Llandeilo in Wales where they faced that problem, and find out how they solved it.

Presenter = Anna Hill
Producer = Rebecca Rooney

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