Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 148: ‘Unacceptable behaviour’ in UK agriculture condemned
Minette Batters © Simon Hadley/Alamy Stock In this episode, farm leader Minette Batters has condemned unacceptable behaviour in UK agriculture – including at work and work-related events.
It comes after a woman at last month’s NFU conference in Birmingham deliberately avoided sitting near her NFU county chairman so he couldn’t “lean all over her.”
Other women in agriculture have since come forward saying they too have faced unacceptable behaviour in the workplace.
In other news, we examine the prospects for fertiliser and ask: is the world really going to run out of phosphate – or do we just need to use it better?
We’ve all the latest market prices – and we discover the winner of this week’s Commodity Cashback competition.
We get the low-down on the UK government’s Spring Budget – and find out what it means for your farm business.
And we meet the record breaking sheep shearer sharpening the clippers to go head-to-head with his brother at the world championships.
This episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast is co-hosted by Johann Tasker with Surrey farmer Hugh Broom, with Farmers Weekly deputy editor Abi Kay.
To contact Johann and Hugh, email podcast@fwi.co.uk. In the UK, you can also text the word FARM followed by your message to 88 44 0.
For full terms and conditions for our Commodity Cashback competition, please visit fwi.co.uk/commoditycashback.
Cashback Commodity Competition
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Each week in the Farmers Weekly Podcast, Johann & Hugh will pick a farm commodity (wheat, milk, beef etc) and ask UK listeners to text FARM to 88440 followed by their prediction for the price of that commodity the following week. Texts are charged at your network provider’s regular rate and our international listeners can email podcast@fwi.co.uk.
The winner is the listener who guesses closest to the number, as published in Farmers Weekly magazine on that Friday.
All correct entries will be put into a draw and the winner will be drawn at random by the Farmers Weekly Podcast hosts.
The winner must answer when called or the next nearest winner will be chosen and contacted.
Please read the terms and conditions for entering this competition.
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