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Listen
to the latest edition of "Country Matters" from
BBC Radio Devon.
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Monday
9th September 2002
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 Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute programme on farming and rural
affairs. This week: three days of hearings into hunting get under
way; plus, the programme has a look at how wool is graded.
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Monday
2nd September 2002
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Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute programme on farming and rural
affairs. This week: Rural businesses claim they are being left out
in the internet revolution; plus, the drive for better autumn milk
prices begins in earnest.
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Monday
12th August 2002
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Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute programme on farming and rural
affairs. This week looks at the disappointing start to the cereal
harvest and how the Rural Payments Agency is sending work away from
Exeter to try to lose its backlog.
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Monday
5th August 2002
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Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute programme on farming and rural
affairs. This week looks at the 21-day standstill rule on livestock
movements, plus Farmers For Action announce a plan to strike.
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Monday
29th July 2002
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Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute programme on farming and rural
affairs, this week looks at good and bad news for organic farmers,
the Totnes Show, Devon's farmers' markets, and topical issues affecting
the countryside.
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Monday
22nd July 2002
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Country
Matters, BBC Radio Devon's weekly farming programme, looks at the
findings of the Anderson report into the handling of last year's foot-and-mouth
epidemic.
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Tuesday
16th July 2002
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Listen
to BBC report on
the Royal Society recommendations for tackling any future outbreak
of foot-and-mouth. Plus an interview with the NFU's Ben Gill.
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Monday
15th July 2002
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This
week's edition of BBC Radio Devon's farming programme, Country Matters,
looks forward to the Royal Society's report on foot-and-mouth.
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Monday
8th July 2002
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 In
the latest half-hour edition of BBC Radio Devon's farming programme,
Country Matters, there's a look at the prospects for Government funding
to implement the recommendations
of the Curry Report; an interview with Anthony Gibson, and much more.
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Monday
1st July 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters".
A South West milk co-operative has struck a £30m deal with
Express dairies, plus an East Devon farmer who could be forced to
quit by new EU muck-spreading rules.......
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Monday
24th June 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters".
Rural transport problems and a review of the visit of 13 members of
the European parliament to Devon last week for the latest foot-and-mouth
inquiry.......
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Monday
17th June 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" brings you the latest
farming and rural affairs news. This
week the funding crisis in our village halls and members of the European
Parliament visit Devon to investigate last year's foot-and-mouth crisis.
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Monday
10th June 2002
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Hear
all the latest farming and rural affairs news in Devon in the latest
edition of BBC Radio Devon's Country Matters programme. This week's
episode features the plight of village shops and the first birthday
of the farming ministry, Defra....
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Monday
27th May 2002
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Hear
all the latest farming and rural affairs news in Devon in the latest
edition of BBC Radio Devon's 30-minute Country Matters programme...
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Monday
20th May 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" investigates if
house prices are driving youngsters out of rural communities....
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Monday
13th May 2002
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Sam
Smith and the BBC Radio Devon "Country Matters" team take
a look forward to this week's Devon County Show....
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Monday
29th April 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" investigates
TB in cattle and if Devon's cattle markets can survive....
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Monday
22nd April 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" investigates
Biofuels and a possible free-range egg shortage....
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Monday
15th April 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" talks
to Ben Bennett of the State Veterinary Service about the substantial
rise in bovine TB.
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Monday
8th April 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" includes
a report on evidence that more farmers are putting themselves at
risk for suffering from accidents; and an EU inquiry into foot-and-mouth
visits the county.
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Monday
25th March 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" includes
a preview of a key meeting in Downing Street and a look at
how Scottish hunts
are dealing with the ban on hunting with hounds.
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Monday
18th March 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" includes
looks at the Government's proposals on hunting and how pressure is
mounting on Defra to resolve the future of the Ash Moor burial pit
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Monday
11th March 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" includes
a report on Dartington Cattle Breeding Centre near Totnes....
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Monday
4th March 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" talks
to the rural affairs minister Elliot Morley about the fight against
TB.
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Monday
25th February 2002
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BBC
Radio Devon's farming programme "Country Matters" looks
at the re-opening of the South West's livestock markets....
Highampton
farmer and livestock dealer, Willie Cleave, has been in the news
ever since the fateful day when the disease was first confirmed
in Devon. One year on - he is back at work, travelling the country
selling animals in much the same way as before. He has been talking
to BBC Radio Devon.
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Monday
18th February 2002
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A
year on from foot-and-mouth, and Devon farmer Paula Wolton - who made
weekly video diary for BBC TV's Countryfile programme - talks to BBC
Devon about the crisis...and the recovery.
Listen
to BBC Radio Devon's farming programme, "Country Matters"
including an interview with former pig farmer Robert Persey who is
among the delegation at the Royal Courts of Justice in London....
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Monday
11th February 2002
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This
week's BBC Radio Devon's farming programme, "Country Matters,"
with Sam Smith, looks at the plight of livestock markets; a call to
speed up the ban on hunting with hounds; the latest market prices;
and has an interview with Ian Johnson of the NFU.
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Monday
4th February 2002
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Listen
to BBC Radio Devon's weekly farming programme, "Country Matters",
with Sam Smith. This week's programme looks at the safety of GM
products and the effect recent bad weather is having on the county.
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Monday
28th January 2002
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Listen
to BBC Radio Devon's weekly farming programme, "Country Matters",
with Sam Smith. This programme looks ahead at the findings of the
Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming - one of three
independent inquiries launched by the Government in the wake of foot-and-mouth.
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Tuesday
22nd January 2002
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The Rural Affairs
Minister, Alun Michael, gives his reaction to the publication of the
final report from Devon's foot-and-mouth inquiry.
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Monday
21st January 2002
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Listen
to BBC Radio Devon's weekly farming programme, "Country Matters",
with Sam Smith. This week a preview of the Devon foot-and-mouth inquiry's
final report and news that one of the independent inquiries launched
by the Government is visiting Devon.
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Sunday
20th January 2002
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Watch BBC South
West's Spotlight on Westminster, which looks at the European Union's
proposed inquiry into foot-and-mouth.
Broadcast Sunday 1-1.30pm
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Monday
14th January 2002
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Listen to BBC Radio
Devon's weekly farming programme, "Country Matters", with
Sam Smith. This week includes reaction to the new animal health bill.
Broadcast Monday 7-7.30pm
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Wednesday
9th January 2002
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Rural Affairs minister
Alun Michael talks to BBC Radio Devon's Vic Morgan about the Rural
Affairs Forum for England.
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Monday
7th January 2002
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Tony Booth of the
RSPCA explains the problem facing Dartmoor ponies and tells why the
charity is concerned for the welfare of the animals.
Listen to BBC Radio
Devon's weekly farming programme "Country Matters" with
Sam Smith. Including market prices, health for pregnant women working
on farms and Anthony Gibson's reaction to Margaret Beckett's latest
speech.
Broadcast Monday 7-7.30pm
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