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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		01/07/19: Fly-tipping, Lincolnshire flooding, soft fruit
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:11:29
	Publish Date:		2019-07-01 00:00:00
	Description:		Last year in England, local authorities recorded just under a million incidents of fly-tipping. But those figures don't include cases where the waste has been cleared by private landowners, often farmers. It's the landowner's responsibility to remove anything dumped on their property. We speak to one farmer in Essex who may have lost 25 acres of beans after his field was targeted by fly-tippers. It's three weeks since heavy rains started in Lincolnshire, but for householders with flooded homes and farmers who saw hundreds of acres of farmland underwater, the impact of the rain is still being felt. We hear from farmers who say crops have been destroyed, but more importantly, soil has been badly compacted. And over the last few years, blueberries have become the second most commonly grown summer berry in the UK - we produce nearly 41 thousand tonnes of them! We speak to a blueberry farmer in Scotland. Presented by Sybil Ruscoe Produced by Heather Simons
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