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Farming Today: Livestock rustling, The beauty queens of dairy

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07/12/2015

Livestock rustling, The beauty queens of dairy

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Livestock rustling, The beauty queens of dairy

This week the programme is investigating livestock rustling as thieves target farm animals

This week the programme is investigating livestock rustling as thieves target farm animals across the UK. Plus the dairy beauty queens.

We begin a week-long look at livestock rustling as thieves are target farm animals. Ten thousand cattle have bee stolen in Northern Ireland in the last three years and only last week two men from County Durham were found guilty of stealing sheep from their neighbours. In 2014, it's estimated that livestock theft cost famers £6.6 million pounds.

We're in Scotland to meet the beauty queens of the dairy industry - the Holstein cows - the Holstein is the cow that puts milk on your table. The breed first arrived in the UK after the Second World War and has become the super cow of the milking parlour.

And deck the halls with boughs of holly! We're in Birmingham's Sutton Park to see how holly is being turned into fuel.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sybil Ruscoe.

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