Fishing and trade, mental health in agriculture, wine harvest

Farming Today

• Episode: Fishing and trade, mental health in agriculture, wine harvest
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:29
• Published: 2020-10-16 07:00

Fishing is again proving a major and problematic issue in the Brussels Brexit talks this week. It's difficult to see how the UK’s insistence on annual negotiations on access to its waters can fit with the EU’s insistence on maintaining the existing access European fleets have to British waters. We’ve been looking at how rural communities have changed during Covid, and mental health has obviously been a big part of that. The lockdown put a strain on many of us, wherever we live, but farming can present unique challenges, from isolation to long hours. Charities supporting farmers say they’ve had more calls, but Covid has made helping harder. We’ve reported on a lot of poor harvests this year with yields down for many cereal crops hit by bad weather. One small sector is having a really good harvest, and that's grapes. English wine producers say they’re on for a record harvest this year. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.