Synopsis
Rebecca Hosking discusses how fuel shortages will impact farming.
- Programme: Natural World
- Series: 2008-2009
- Episode: A Farm for the Future
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2009
- Geography | Rural environments | Farming | Farming and the environment
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