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Farming Today: A lethal hare disease, Microsoft takes on farming, badger baiting, farm antibiotic use and attitudes to dairy

A lethal hare disease, Microsoft takes on farming, badger baiting, farm antibiotic use and attitudes to dairy

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, A lethal hare disease, Microsoft takes on farming, badger baiting, farm antibiotic use and attitudes to dairy

How Farming Today listeners helped identify a new disease in UK hares.

A scientist investigating a spate of dead hares has now been able to identify a disease that's newly arrived in the UK thanks to Farming Today listeners getting in touch.

Farming Today listeners have helped identify a new disease in hares in the UK. After asking people to report dead hares on the programme last year, scientist Dr Diana Bell has now confirmed the arrival of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease 2 in UK hares. She tells Charlotte Smith what it means.

Microsoft's Director of 'Sustainability and AI for Earth' explains how the technology giant is taking on the challenges of farming.

Five men have been jailed after being caught badger baiting in East Yorkshire - we hear from a woman who was one of the first on the scene.

The Government's plan to tackle resistance to anti-microbial drugs means farming will have to cut its use of the drugs by 25%  -  by next year.

And a survey has found that whilst the majority of people are still positive about eating dairy products around a quarter of young people say they've reduced their dairy consumption in the last two years

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Produced by Heather Simons

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