Farming Today

29/03/22 - Chicken muck, seed potatoes, Australian dairy and NI climate


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With the price of fertiliser reaching new heights, one alternative is to use manure - or organic waste. Sarah Godwin and her husband run a dairy, arable and egg enterprise in North Wiltshire and have been trialling using out their own waste on their farm, causing them to look at their chicken poo in a new light.
This week on Farming Today, we're looking at the impact of the Australia and UK trade deal. Before the UK joined the EU in the 1970’s, the UK was Australia’s largest dairy export market - they shipped around 55,000 tonnes of dairy products, including cheese and milk powders, to the UK each year. But things have changed. UK customs data shows we imported almost 1.5 million tonnes of dairy products in 2020, mostly from the EU. We hear from Dairy Australia, the levy body for the country’s dairy farmers, about which dairy products they plan to import.
And a planned shipment of seed potatoes from Scotland to Russia has been shelved after criticism that it went against Scottish Government advice to ‘dis-invest’ in trade with Russia, following the invasion of Ukraine.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced in Bristol by Caitlin Hobbs
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