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Farming Today: GM, Anthrax, Bees, Leaf peeping

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28/10/2015

GM, Anthrax, Bees, Leaf peeping

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, GM, Anthrax, Bees, Leaf peeping

Should individual EU countries have the right to use GM? A crucial vote is set to decide.

Should individual EU countries have the right to use GM? A crucial vote by MEPs is set to decide. Presented by Caz Graham.

MEPs go to the ballet box in Strasbourg to decide whether or not countries should have the right to decide to grow GM crops, or to opt out. Scotland's farming minister has said that they will opt out, but Nancy Nicolson talks to a potato grower in Perthshire, who thinks it could be detrimental to the future of the industry
Anthrax has been confirmed in a cow on a farm in Wiltshire by Public Health England. It's the first time it's been seen in livestock in the UK in 9 years. Microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington says there is practically no risk to humans.
A report by the Independent Monitoring Board says that prisoners taking part in beekeeping courses at Altcourse prison in Liverpool, are more relaxed as a result. BBC Radio Merseyside's Marc Gaier talks to apiarist Andrew Hubbard.
Beatrice Fenton talks to Mark Ballard, a curator at Westonbirt arboretum in Gloucestershire, to find out why this Autumn has been particularly spectacular.
Presenter Caz Graham. Producer Ruth Sanderson.

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