09/07/21 - Seed potatoes, feeding farmland birds, pea harvest

Farming Today

• Episode: 09/07/21 - Seed potatoes, feeding farmland birds, pea harvest
• Website: Farming Today
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• Duration: 00:13:31
• Published: 2021-07-09 07:00

The government has decided that seed potatoes can no longer be imported from the EU, after the Brexit agreement meant that British exports of seed potatoes were no longer allowed into the European Union. Anna Hill asks what this will mean for GB growers who up until this point had been exporting around 30 thousand tonnes of seed potatoes to the EU every year, and where the industry might go from here. The humble peas on your plate is the result of a hugely efficient harvest which is run like a military operation. Peas have to be frozen within 150 minutes of being picked, and Anna visits a harvest in East Anglia to see how it's done. For farmland bird week Mariclare Carey Jones speaks to a farmer in North Wales about a project aiming to help feed and encourage more birds onto the land. Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Toby Field