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Farming Today: 27/06/24 Lib Dem's Manifesto, Groundswell regenerative farming, Sark considers Sunday tractors

27/06/24 Lib Dem's Manifesto, Groundswell regenerative farming, Sark considers Sunday tractors

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 27/06/24 Lib Dem's Manifesto, Groundswell regenerative farming, Sark considers Sunday tractors

All this week we're hearing from the main political parties on what they're offering farmers and rural communities this election.  Today it's the turn of the Liberal Democrats who say they'll put an extra £1 billion a year into the agriculture budget.

When the Groundswell show started eight years ago it was a small event for the then rather niche 'regenerative farming'.  This year's show still held on the Cherry family farm in Hertfordshire expects thousands of visitors to discuss, debate and look at machinery, as regen ag is becoming far more mainstream. We hear from tenant farmer Andy Cato of Groove Armada and Wildfarmed on how to make it pay.

Keep Sundays special or move with the times? That's the debate in Channel Island of Sark, as politicians consider whether to change a law that means tractor drivers have to have written permission to go out on Sundays.

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