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Farming Today: Farmers fight the livestock rustlers, Forage aid for Cumbria, English bubbly

11/12/2015

Farmers fight the livestock rustlers, Forage aid for Cumbria, English bubbly

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Farmers fight the livestock rustlers, Forage aid for Cumbria, English bubbly

Livestock theft cost £6.6m in the UK last year - farmers are now fighting back.

In 2014, livestock theft cost around £6.6m - the programme reports on how farmers in Lancashire are fighting back. Plus how Forage Aid is helping farmers hit by the floods.

Livestock theft cost around £6.6m last year, according to the farm insurance company NFU Mutual. But now Lancashire farmers are fighting back by joining forces with the police and local auctions to tackle livestock crime. They've been so successful that other farmers across Britain are adopting their anti-rustling strategy.

Farmers in Cumbria and north Lancashire face a tough Christmas clearing up after the recent devastating rainfall and flooding. We hear how Forage Aid is helping out with donations of feed, bedding and transport.

And it's a vintage time for Anglo-French wine relations as a top French champagne house buys up farmland in Kent so that it can produce a premium English Sparkling Wine - but Farming Today is looking for a more bubbly name for our homegrown wine!

Presenter:Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe.

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