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08/02/25 Farming Today This Week: illegal meat imports, call for bird flu housing order, NFUS report on inappropriate language

MPs are told German animal products entered UK despite foot and mouth import ban.

MPs are told that animal products from Germany continued to enter the UK after an import ban was put in place because of the foot and mouth outbreak there.

Egg producers want their chickens ordered inside to protect them from bird flu.

A new report finds farming leaders in Scotland must do more to call out racist, misogynistic and homophobic language from union members.

We visit a prize winner of the Westmorland Agricultural Society's annual hotly contested silage competition.

And we speak to The Crown Estate about its new rural strategy, offering tenants 'environmental farm business tenancies' or green leases.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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