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Farming Today: TB drop, rare-breed beef, biofuels, ancient wheat

27/02/2015

TB drop, rare-breed beef, biofuels, ancient wheat

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, TB drop, rare-breed beef, biofuels, ancient wheat

A Gloucestershire vet has conducted his own analysis of the impact of the badger cull.

A vet has conducted his own analysis of bovine TB figures inside the Gloucestershire cull zone. Presenter Charlotte Smith asks what his statistics may mean.

A Gloucestershire vet has conducted his own analysis of the impact of the badger cull on cattle and bovine TB. According to him there's been a drop in cases inside the zone and one farm has even gone clear of the disease for the first time in more than a decade. We ask what the implications of the figures are.

The European Parliament has approved moves to limit the amount of food crops used to produce biofuel. MEPs say "first-generation" biofuels - that's fuel derived from crops like corn - should not exceed 6% of the total fuel used in transport by 2020. They want "advanced biofuels", sourced from seaweed or algae to make up at least 2.5%. What could this mean for farmers?

Archaeologists have found that wheat arrived in the UK two thousand years before the introduction of farming here. It suggests our trading links with Europe may go much further back than was first thought. Charlotte hears from one of the academics involved in the research.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.

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