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Farming Today: Badger Cull

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08/09/2014

Badger Cull

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Badger Cull

Charlotte Smith hears from a farmer who was in the badger cull zone last year.

Countryside and farming news. It's time for the second round of the badger cull, and Charlotte Smith hears from a farmer who was in the cull zone last year.

It's round two of the badger cull, part of the government's strategy to tackle TB in cattle. It's a controversial policy, but one farmer from within the cull zone says he has seen his own herd go free of the disease for the first time in ten years. He believes it is down to the cull: 92 badgers were removed from his land in last year's campaign.

The Badger Trust says last year's pilot cull has been discredited as ineffective and not humane. They believe the government should give vaccination and other measures more time to work, and abandon the cull of badgers altogether. 

The Farming Minister says the cull is just one tool in their eradication strategy for TB, and that they have learned valuable lessons from last year's cull, to make this year more effective and humane.

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