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Farming Today: Bird flu, sugar beet harvest

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18/11/2014

Bird flu, sugar beet harvest

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Bird flu, sugar beet harvest

What does the outbreak of bird flu in East Yorkshire mean for UK farmers?

Bird flu has been found on a farm in East Yorkshire, where 6,000 ducks will now be culled. Anna Hill asks how the disease could have got here, and what it means for UK farmers.

Avian flu has been identified on a farm near Driffield in East Yorkshire, where six thousand birds will now be culled. Defra has confirmed that the strain of the virus on the duck farm at Nafferton is not the deadly H5N1 which can infect humans, but it is a highly infectious strain for birds. According to officials in Brussels, it's likely that the case in Yorkshire may be linked to migratory birds, which are thought to be the source of the H5N8 strain that has infected thousands of chickens on a farm about 40 miles south of Amsterdam. A ten kilometre (six mile) restriction zone has been placed round the farm, and a wide-ranging programme of wild bird surveillance is underway.

Also in this programme, Farming Today starts a week-long look at the sugar production industry.

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