Farming Today - 03/07/2009

Charlotte Smith finds out more about a possible new threat to beekeeping. As colonies throughout the UK suffer the effects of the varroa mite, another potentially devastating insect may eventually make it to the UK. The small hive beetle has already killed thousands of colonies in Africa, America and Australia, and plans are already underway to prevent this insect spreading in the UK. Plus, more farmers say that the maps their subsidies are based on are inaccurate. We hear how some landowners say the maps are so out of date they may have been drawn up during WW2.