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Farming Today: The Milk Production Reduction Scheme, and leaving hedgerows uncut to help wildlife.

16/09/2016

The Milk Production Reduction Scheme, and leaving hedgerows uncut to help wildlife.

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, The Milk Production Reduction Scheme, and leaving hedgerows uncut to help wildlife.

The deadline for the EU scheme paying farmers to produce less milk is fast approaching.

The deadline for the EU scheme paying farmers to produce less milk is fast approaching - and a farmer in Oxfordshire wants to create a wildlife corridor through to Cornwall.

The Application deadline for the EU scheme paying farmers to produce less milk is next week; one farmer in Northern Ireland is encouraging dairy farmers across the UK to get their forms in the post.

As we continue to look at the State of Nature report, an Oxfordshire farmer has an idea for encouraging wildlife across great swathes of the countryside; creating a vast wildlife corridor from Oxfordshire to Cornwall, by leaving hedgerows uncut, providing food and shelter for a variety of plants and animals. 


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