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Farming Today - 22/12/2009

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Anna Hills hears from one of the farmers seeking compensation from the Rural Payments Agency as a result of its failings in 2005, and why he's bitterly disappointed to be offered only 500 pounds rather than the recommended 5,000. Plus why keeping reindeer in Britain isn't always supported. A government vet says there's been an increase in imports of the animals but they don't always survive. And the Wiltshire farmer who may be forced to kill a prize beef calf because he doesn't know its exact date of birth.