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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		Sugar cane, battery storage, vintage wagons
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:13:51
	Publish Date:		2025-12-03 06:00:00
	Description:		There are warning that an increase in the amount of sugar cane that can be imported into the UK tariff-free will impact British sugar beet farmers, who are already getting a lower price for their produce because of an oversupply of sugar. The government's announced that 325 thousand tonnes of raw cane sugar, sourced from anywhere in the world, will be tariff-free from January 1st next year. That's a 25% increase by volume on previous years. Campaigners have warned a huge oversupply of battery storage sites for renewable energy is threatening to blight Scotland’s countryside. The charity Action to Protect Rural Scotland, or APRS, says a study it’s publishing today shows there is four times as much battery storage planned as we are likely to need for the transformation to green energy. That, it says, means unnecessary damage, planning blight and lost farmland across the country. And we attend the sale of an unrivalled collection of vintage farm wagons and horse drawn carts - amassed over 40 years - which went under the hammer at an auction in Dorset. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner.
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