# 11/05/26: Cage eggs ban call, University vineyard, Environment watchdog on NI water quality

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Podcast: [Farming Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/farming-today-385282)
Published: 2026-05-11T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w76v
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The UK's environment watchdog has warned that regulations designed to reduce water pollution from agricultural sources in Northern Ireland, urgently need to be strengthened. The Office for Environmental Protection, or OEP, has examined Northern Ireland's Nutrients Action Programme and says its measures haven't done enough to improve water quality. Many students of farming get the opportunity to experience hands-on learning, with dairy, beef and arable. At Harper Adams University in Shropshire students not only get to learn how to tend a vineyard, but now they're able to drink their own wine, made with grapes from the University's vines. The first wines have just been released. Vets' organisations are calling for a ban on imports of eggs produced by caged hens, alongside a phasing out of the 'enriched colony' cages currently legal in the UK. The British Veterinary Association and British Veterinary Poultry Association are supporting the Government's plan to end the use of cage systems here - out for consultation earlier this year. The National Farmers Union warned the move would drive more imports, some produced using methods already illegal in the UK. Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Sarah Swadling

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