Farming Today - 16/08/2010

Caz Graham hears plans for an 8,000 cow dairy farm will be resubmitted, despite opposition from the RSPCA. The man behind the Nocton Dairy development says he's addressed all animal welfare concerns, and those of local residents in Lincolnshire. 184,000 people visited farms as part of the recent Open Farm Sunday event. A year on from the E.coli outbreak at Godstone farm in Surrey, Farming Today looks at the benefits, and the risks of opening farms to the public. Caz visits Walby Farm Park near Carlisle to see what famers and visitors gain from the experience. And farmers in the East Anglia are being told they risk having restrictions on their water use, if they can't be more efficient with irrigation. The Environment Agency warn that it will take more than a wet August to make up for the driest start to a year in 80 years, and that farmers must do their bit.