Climate change the global research organization biodiversity International says a key way to promote sustainable farming is to protect agricultural biodiversity which it says is integral to everything we each and grow well we ll hear from the director general in a moment first though a report from one of the field scientists he s leading a project in Ethiopia. My name is Carla father I work for biodiversity internationalism country representative unity Apia I m now visiting one of the village and retrieve start the project a long time ago the village of work you know matter region. He s whole Most importantly there are many crops and many different varieties of Durham wheat farmers when we first came here we asked them about their problems and we asked them what are their main challenges the farmers told us that the main challenge was climate change we try to offer a solution and we start talking about diversity we went back with four hundred different varieties of wheat they were rea
Manages its farming could have the same benefits as stopping using oil and later on could farmers do what the transport secretary said and just grow more first day today it s definitely storm season as Ireland suffered strong winds last night in Scotland it s been the high rainfall which is be making farmers lives more difficult usually they spend the summer cutting baskets Sylia and spreading valuable slurry on their fields to keep the grass growing but high rainfall has meant they can t get on to fields to spread and rules say they have to stop slurry spreading by last Sunday to ensure against polluting water courses Well now they ve been granted a waiver to the rules from the Scottish Government for Macquarie Mitchell spoke to me from Stram RA. The whale has just been so bad I mean from probably the middle of August on which it s been so cuts it s a trying harvest and also to get our last course elites in you know here we cut three to four cups of sail it s because we like to cut g
As and can do and dogs ever mix First though the co-operative party is one hundred years old this month and this weekend holds its centenary conference in London it was created partly to help farmers struggling after the First World War and co-ops remain a big part of agriculture half the U.K. Farmers are members of agricultural crops and Farmer controlled businesses have a turnover of nearly six billion pounds a year well there are about four hundred farm co-ops across the country both large and small simple Russkies been to a fifty acre co-operative farm run by Stroud community agriculture in costa to find out more. This is a herd of traditional Herefords that we keep here on the farm they re here for producing beef customers. And also the manure the from the winter is used to make compost to feed the vege our customers own the business but they also buy the vegetables from us and what about the farmers that surround your fifty acres when you first pitched up and said were a co-oper
Presented by Simon Smith good morning today the Great British Bake in his mill is in Egypt s tri British flower and the Midlands milk going to the Middle East we ve got young ladies going testings the sales are going up every week which is fantastic and we just can t believe how popular it seems to be because they re now tasting what we re all used to with our breakfast in the morning more on that later now we ve been talking food waste on farming today all week from crops rejected on farm to the unidentified green objects gently decomposing in the bottom of our own fridges please tell me I m not alone retailers of course the very keen to tell us just how much effort they re putting it to reducing the amount of food lost in the supply chain and we ll hear more about that tomorrow when I visit a Tesco store and the food charity it supports there although some gaps of food banks find it particularly difficult to get hold of fresh food it can be out of date by the time they ve collected
Earlier form our farming today with Sherman Smith good morning today what a waste New figures show thousands of tons of food thrown away on farms more on that later First though a warning from vets to horse owners over the dangers of Sycamore poisoning after storms the recent high winds have brought down Sycamore seeds now that toxic to horses and can cause an illness which weakens muscles and can even be fatal the British equestrian veterinarian satiation says the last big spike in the illness was after the storms of twenty fourteen or Brenda Russell s horse was poisoned by Sycamore seeds as she explained to civil. Brenda tell me what happened in this field a couple of years ago well I had two two year old similar to what I ve got now the grass was short I have sycamore trees all along one side of my field and we think that because of shortage of grass that they were picking up the seeds and I went out. One was just standing there looking as though it had been galloping ran and got i