Shortage of skilled UK farm workers, New Waterloo city farm, Soil quality
Charlotte Smith hears why there is a shortage of skilled UK farmworkers. Plus a look at London's newest city farm and a call to preserve soil quality by planting less maize.
We hear what an agricultural recruitment firm is doing about what it describes as a shortage of skilled UK farm workers. They're recruiting dairystockmen from the Philippines and eastern Europe.
Charlotte Smith visits London's newest city farm, in Waterloo - less than half an acre in size, squeezed up by the railway sidings, but which enjoys a view of the Houses of Parliament.
And in the week of arable farming's key industry show, Cereals 2015 in Lincolnshire, sustainable farming director Mike Gooding issues a call to arms to preserve soil quality by planting less maize and oil seed rape.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.
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