Farming Today

09/07/20 - Green recovery and the budget, Rock dust and soil, clean river swimming

Farming Today

The Chancellor has announced a package of measures to help aid the green recovery. Charlotte Smith asks Sarah Lee from the Countryside Alliance what this cut in VAT could mean for rural businesses. As part of Farming Today's green recovery week we hear from a farm in North Wales which has been taking part in the Payment for Outcomes scheme. A new study from the University of Sheffield says adding rock dust to fields could absorb billion of tons of carbon dioxide, and Ali Vowles reports from a swimming spot near Bath which is hoping to gain the same bathing water standards given to some of the UK’s blue flag beaches. Producer: Toby Field

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