20/06/20 Farming Today This Week: Trade talks, NFU petition, Rural racism, Flowers

Farming Today

• Episode: 20/06/20 Farming Today This Week: Trade talks, NFU petition, Rural racism, Flowers
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:24:49
• Published: 2020-06-20 08:00

How welcome are Black or Asian families in rural Britain? We hear one family's experiences of racism and speak to Professor Neil Chakraborti, Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at Leicester University. The National Farmers' Union’s petition urging the government to protect food standards in any trade deal has more than a million signatures. Anna Hill asks their president, Minette Batters, about their campaign. There are big changes in Scotland this week as the parliament voted to ban the unlicensed killing of mountain hares to protect grouse and saplings and the shooting of seals to protect fish farms. For the multi million pound flower business here in the UK it’s been a very tough few months with garden centres closed and supermarkets streamlining their lines to concentrate on essentials. Double H Nurseries in New Milton, Hampshire, normally sell 35,000 orchids a week in UK supermarkets. Overnight they saw their demand drop by 50%. To save thousands of plants from being thrown away, they had to quickly change their business model. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.