Farming Today

26/09/20 Farming Today This Week: delays at Dover and impact on food exports, chicken welfare, agricultural education

Farming Today

We hear about the impact of possible delays at Dover on food exports once the Brexit transition period ends in January. Fifty scientists and animal welfare activists have written to Tesco’s Chief Executive, urging him to commit to selling only chicken from slower-growing birds by 2026. The entire cockle fishing fleet in Boston, Lincolnshire is tied-up after government regulators decided that enough shellfish had already been caught this year. The town’s shell-fishermen were told to stop work, in order to leave food for seabirds. As thousands of students return to agricultural courses from agronomy to equine, we ask how are they and their lecturers coping with a new kind of learning. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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