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The Farmers Weekly Podcast

Farm safety week, dairy costings, rural crime, animal health and welfare, environmental stewardship, & straw prices

Jul 17, 2020
42:01

On the Farmers Weekly Podcast, it's Farm Safety Week – and we have a special interview with farm safety campaigner Jane Gurney.

 Jane's teenage son Harry was killed in an accident involving an unroadworthy trailer – and she founded the Tilly Your Trailer safety campaign in his memory.

She talks about the campaign, how it is improving safety on farms  – and the launch of the Head to tow app.

We look at what the government's Animal Health & Welfare Pathway means for livestock producers and how it could benefit the red meat sector – if done correctly.

Rural crime is always a hot topic – and we examine how police and farmers are joining forces to combat fly-tipping, hare-coursing and farm theft.

On the markets, we look at the latest dairy costings – and get to grips with straw prices as combines continue to roll into cereal crops.

And we talk to a farmer who has won a three-year battle to bring land back into production after a 10-year environmental stewardship scheme – the result could be in your favour too.

This episode co-hosted by Farmers Weekly chief reporter Johann Tasker and Surrey farmer Hugh Broom, with Farmers Weekly executive editor Philip Clarke, deputy business editor Andrew Meredith and news reporter Ed Henderson.

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