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Milk Prices, Fracking, LED-Grown Tomatoes

Farming Today hears from a dairy farmer in Staffordshire who says he could be paid as little as 13 pence per litre for his milk and at that price his cattle will starve.

Farmer protests over the falling milk price are continuing, despite reassurance from the Government earlier this week.
In Staffordshire, the 成人快手's West Midland's Rural Affairs correspondent David Gregory-Kumar speaks to a dairy farmer who says he could be paid as little as 13 pence per litre for his milk. He says if that's the case his cattle will starve.

Fracking will be allowed to take place under National Parks and other protected areas. Although a couple of weeks ago the government agreed on an outright ban of all fracking in protected areas, they now say this may 'unduly constrain the industry' and fracking will be allowed, as long as the wells start outside the boundaries of protected areas. Farming Today hear from the Campaign to Protect Rural England who say they are concerned about this move.

And Farming Today continues to look at the relationship between the farmer and water. Every year UK agriculture uses around 184 million cubic metres of water, Charlotte Smith speaks to the UK Irrigation Association about how much farmers rely on groundwater supplies.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton.

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Fri 13 Feb 2015 05:45

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