South of England Show

Farming Today

• Episode: South of England Show
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:24:33
• Published: 2017-06-10 02:00

Charlotte Smith presents from the South of England Show in Ardingly, West Sussex, now in its fiftieth year. With the country still coming to terms with the General Election result she asks West Sussex NFU Chairman David Exwood and CLA South East Regional Director Robin Edwards where it leaves farmers and the agricultural sector. Inside the cow shed students from Plumpton College explain what attracts them to these shows and why showing cattle is still a relevant skill. Charlotte discovers that spinning wool is much harder than it looks, and she introduces reports on Open Farm Sunday, the Cumbrian poet Harriet Fraser and Quattro the bull who carries the future of a rare Welsh breed of cattle on his shoulders. Producer: Toby Field.