29/07/21 Should the smallest farms be eligible for ELMS farm payments? Light recipes for plants.

Farming Today

• Episode: 29/07/21 Should the smallest farms be eligible for ELMS farm payments? Light recipes for plants.
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:38
• Published: 2021-07-29 07:00

Should farms under five hectares be eligible for ELMS, the Government's new post-Brexit environmental farm funding scheme? The Landworkers' Alliance thinks so. DEFRA plans to initially roll the scheme out only to farms currently signed up to the old EU Basic Payment Scheme and that excludes farms that are smaller than 5 hectares. We hear from Jyoti Fernandes on why that should change. And a business that specialises in technology for vertical farming, where crops like salads are grown indoors in layers under artificial light, is developing what they call light recipes to improve growth. Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.