Council farms, bird flu update, Sloe Gin made on farm

Farming Today

• Episode: Council farms, bird flu update, Sloe Gin made on farm
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:30
• Published: 2016-12-23 01:00

The Tenant Farmers Association is calling for county councils not to sell off their farm estates. It comes as Cambridgeshire council takes on MORE tenants, bucking a national trend. Around half of the UK's council farms have been sold off over the last thirty years, often to plug holes in council budgets. But some authorities are making a profit on their farm estates, and TFA chief executive George Dunn says the government should take more of an interest in what he says is a national asset. Ben Jackson has been to a farm in Leicestershire where they make Sloe Gin - this is their busiest time of year; And BBC Weather's Nick Miller investigates an unusual research project - using two electric sheep to assess the affect of the weather on the real animal. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner.