27/03/21 Farming Today This Week: plans to ban lead shot, weeds are winning, pandemic and the food chain

The government is to phase out the use of lead shot, in a bid to protect wildlife and nature.
New evidence from the world’s longest running experiment at Rothamsted Research, shows the threat to food crops from weeds is greater than ever before.
And Henry Dimbleby, the man currently leading the National Food Strategy, says the effects of the pandemic have had an impact on the whole food chain.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton