Chilled food exports at risk, tree planting, adapting to sustainable farming

Farming Today

• Episode: Chilled food exports at risk, tree planting, adapting to sustainable farming
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:41
• Published: 2021-03-31 06:50

New paperwork for chilled food being sold to the EU will need extra veterinary checks which could delay its export, and make it unviable. Only around 5% of chilled foods made in the UK are exported to the EU, but they have a high retail value totalling £550 million. Exporters fear the new rules could bring an end to that business, because any delays will impact on the goods’ short shelf-life. Now we've left the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, the area-based subsidy payments farmers have been receiving are being phased out and replaced with Environmental Land Management Schemes, where payments will be made for ‘public goods’ like clean water, biodiversity and carbon capture. So how will this have an impact on the way farmers and landowners manage their land? The National Trust is in the process of planting 20 million trees on its land. But could nationwide plans to plant millions of trees, obscure some of the country’s iconic landscapes? Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.