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Farming Today: 12/06/24 - Cereals 2024, the arable event

12/06/24 - Cereals 2024, the arable event

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 12/06/24 - Cereals 2024, the arable event

Anna Hill reports from the arable event, Cereals 2024.

Anna Hill reports from Cereals 2024 about how scientists are developing new crop varieties for regenerative farmers.

Post-Brexit trade barriers are leaving the UK behind when it comes to introducing new varieties of crops - according to the British Society of Plant Breeders. Anna Hill reports from the arable event, Cereals 2024, where seed breeding is centre stage.

After one of the wettest years on record left many farmers have been struggling to get out into the fields to plant or spray crops...but new drone technology could help - making it possible to spray on land that's still too soft to put heavy machinery on.

And away from the show, we visit a Welsh livestock farm to find out how vets and farmers are working together to reduce the use of antibiotics.

Presented by Anna Hill
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

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