06/07/24 - Farming Today This Week: Election analysis, soft fruit farming and bee breeding
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Labour have won the General Election - so what does it mean for food, farming and the environment across the UK? We visit a soft fruit farm where flexible solar panels are being draped over the polytunnels to produce both electricity and strawberries from the same land. And most beekeepers sell honey - but we visit a pair who also sell queen bees, which they send to customers through the post. Presented by Helen Mark Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons
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