US trade deal negotiations, floodplains, potato scanner

Farming Today

• Episode: US trade deal negotiations, floodplains, potato scanner
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:36
• Published: 2020-03-03 07:00

The government publishes its wishlist for a US trade deal. It promises to protect UK food standards, but will it come to fruition? We hear from Professor of agricultural economics, Alan Buckwell. A leading conservationist and Whitehall advisor has a new idea about using derelict and disused brownfield sites to protect against flooding. All this week we're assessing how new technology is driving improvements in food production. Today, we hear about the Tuber Scan. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.