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Farming Today: Welsh TB, Vet at Christmas, Dairy at Christmas

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24/12/2014

Welsh TB, Vet at Christmas, Dairy at Christmas

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Welsh TB, Vet at Christmas, Dairy at Christmas

Anna Hill presents the Christmas Eve edition.

Anna Hill presents the Christmas Eve edition, with the latest on the TB eradication programme in Wales and details of a vet's working Christmas.

With the latest on the TB eradication programme in Wales, and hearing about a vet's working Christmas, Anna Hill presents the Christmas Eve edition of Farming Today.

Dr Christianne Glossop, the Chief Veterinary Officer in Wales, calls for full compliance by Welsh farmers with the TB-eradication programme. This is in the light of a farmer who was convicted of falsifying documents relating to bovine TB tests has had his appeal against conviction turned down by the High Court.

Like all livestock farmers, vets work every day of the year, and Christmas can be even busier than other times of the year, because many farms are calving and lambing. Molly McKay from Norfolk Farm Vets shows Anna what her working Christmas is like.

And it's not just vets who'll be working on Christmas day. Lucy Bickerton joins Rob Harrison, the NFU's dairy board chairman, for morning milking on his farm in the Cotswolds.

Presented by Anna Hill and Produced by Mark Smalley.

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