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Farming Today This Week

Farmers across the country are out sowing and planting in the hope of reaping a profitable harvest this summer.

Farmers across the country are out sowing and planting in the hope of reaping a profitable harvest this summer. What gets planted where is determined on local factors like the quality of the soil and global factors like the price of wheat.

Caz Graham plants potatoes in Staffordshire and Martin Poyntz-Roberts visits a brassica farmer who is preparing to plant a batch of sapling cauliflowers in the Midlands.

Also, a trip to one Norfolk farm reveals the pea farmers of East Anglia are back in business after Birds Eye pulled out of the region last year. And Anna Hill goes to see millions of onion seeds in the sandy Brecklands in Suffolk.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Weatherill.

27 minutes

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Sat 19 Mar 2011 06:30

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  • Sat 19 Mar 2011 06:30

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