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Farmers are under pressure from the Government to produce more food. Charlotte Smith asks if the proposed planning laws will help or hinder food production.

Farming Today visits a cucumber and pepper grower on greenbelt land in Essex who wants to build an anaerobic digester to help him produce vegetables the whole year round. He claims the National Policy Planning Framework is unlikely to improve his chances of success.

British pig farmers claim they are losing money to cheap imports from European countries with lower welfare standards. But the EU will introduce a partial ban on using restrictive stalls in January 2013. These are already illegal in the UK, so Charlotte asks Farming Minister Jim Paice what a partial ban means and if shoppers will find the different levels of welfare for their bacon and ham confusing.

Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.