Farming Today - 13/07/2010

Anna Hill hears speculation the Food Standards Agency is to close. Set up after the BSE crisis to look after food safety and public nutrition, the FSA may now face the axe. The Food Ethics Council fear the reasons the FSA was set up may have been forgotten, and former MP Michael Jack says the independence of the FSA has been vital to its success. Rural areas will have fewer bus services and an increase in fares, if the Government goes ahead with subsidy cuts. That's the view of the Campaign for Better Transport which tells Farming Today people living in the countryside will be hit disproportionately hard. And the result of the an appeal by the Badger Trust to prevent a cull of badgers in Pembrokeshire is due today. BBC's Welsh Rural Affairs Correspondent Iolo ap Dafydd reflects on what might happen after the judgement. Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Melvin Rickarby.