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Farming Today: 17/06/24 Salad sales down, farming in the party manifestos, dung beetle conference

17/06/24 Salad sales down, farming in the party manifestos, dung beetle conference

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 17/06/24 Salad sales down, farming in the party manifestos, dung beetle conference

Why the outlook isn't so sunny for UK salad growers.

With the rain continuing and below average temperatures, the outlook isn't so sunny for UK salad growers.

We look at some of the detail in the main parties' manifestos to see what they're promising on issues like the agriculture budget, food security and England's badger cull. 

Sometimes described as a farmer's best friend, dung beetles consume, bury and break up dung, improving soils as they go.  Earlier this month vets and farmers met at a conference in Somerset devoted to the dung beetle.  

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