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Farming Today: 09/04/21 Dogs' impact on countryside, peat free gardening, French farmer protests

09/04/21 Dogs' impact on countryside, peat free gardening, French farmer protests

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Should dogs be kept on leads in the countryside?

The impact more people and more dogs are having in the countryside. Should dogs to be kept on leads?

Dogs should be on leads at all times in the countryside, that’s the call from the Country Land and Business Association, which says that dogs are increasingly a problem. There's been a spike in attacks on sheep over the Easter weekend and a 10% increase in sheep worrying since this time last year. 

We hear how the disease Neopsora, spread in dog faeces, is having a devastating impact on a Surrey farmer, causing his cows to miscarry their calves.

The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that it will be completely peat free by 2025 as it switches to other growing media including sphagnum moss. 

French farmers are out in the streets in tractors and muck spreaders to highlight their opposition to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. 

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