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Farming Today: 11/02/23 Farming Today This Week: Shadow Defra Secretary on the right to roam, chicken manure on the River Wye, peat.

11/02/23 Farming Today This Week: Shadow Defra Secretary on the right to roam, chicken manure on the River Wye, peat.

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Farmers and the right to roam in England and Wales.

The debate about where people can and can't go in the English and Welsh countryside is back on. The Labour Party says if it wins the next election it'll introduce a 'right to roam' and will re-introduce wild camping on Dartmoor too, after a high court decision banned it. What will Labour's plans mean for landowners and farmers? We hear from the Shadow Defra Secretary Jim McMahon.

A major chicken producer claims it will clean up it's use of chicken manure alongside the River Wye, but its plan won't be fully implemented till 2025.

The genomes of 19 insects which damage crops have been mapped by scientists at Rothamsted Research and their work has been made public.  They hope it will lead to more targeted pesticides and other non chemical methods of controlling crop pests.

All week we've been talking about peat: from restoration to paludiculture, growing crops on rewetted peatland..

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