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BBC Radio 4Sat 25 Feb 2012 06:30 BBC Radio 4
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Farming Today
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Sat 25 Feb 2012 06:30 BBC Radio 4
This week the Environment Agency announced south east England would join most of East Anglia in drought. Charlotte Smith visits Northamptonshire, where the last 16 months have been the driest on record. A big hole which farmer Duncan Farrington digs for her, in one of his oilseed rape fields, shows exactly why he is concerned about where his crops will get their water from later in the spring. The UK's Global Food Champion explains why he thinks farmers need to adopt more radical ideas to save water. And, if water scarcity intensifies, could water footprinting become as familiar an idea as carbon footprinting?
Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sarah Swadling.
BBC Radio 4Sat 25 Feb 2012 06:30 BBC Radio 4
All rural life is here: daily news of food, farming, the countryside and the environment with...
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