From the UK Met Office

• After a promising start to the meteorological summer, the weather has decided to turn much more changeable. The first week of June brought dry and warm weather to many parts of the UK. However, the second week has seen a[…]
  
  

From the BBC "Farming Today" Program, MP3 podcasts.

• Since the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, feeding catering waste to pigs has been banned. Is it time to rethink the rules? Campaigners think so.
  
  
• Fears that traffic light labelling will stop us drinking dairy. The government today introduces a comprehensive food labelling system which will be used across all major retailers.
  
  
• Strange and unpredictable weather will be the subject of special discussion at the Met Office's monthly meeting, with 20 weather experts later today. Their debate will focus on the causes of the washout of summer last year, and this year's[…]
  
  
• Charlotte Smith hears the realities of rural crime and how it affects the local community.
  
  
• With the UK now importing wheat for the first time in 11 years, Charlotte Smith is in Somerset to investigate the current state of cereal production in the UK.