09/08/2022 Deer management, Harvest weather, Protein ice-cream
With deer numbers in the UK now estimated to be the highest for 1,000 years, Caz Graham talks to the British Deer Society about government plans for a review of deer management.
The government is launching a consultation on how best to manage deer in England. The deer population of the UK is estimated to have increased from 450,000 in the 1970s to two million today - which is thought to be the highest for a thousand years. Deer have a big impact on woodland, as they can seriously damage trees. They are already culled to keep numbers down. Caz Graham asks the British Deer Society what they make of the government's proposals.
Continuing a week-long look at how this year's harvest is going, we get a round-up from four different farmers in the four regions of the UK. While much of England and Wales is struggling with a lack of rain, the situation isn't the same in Scotland. Caz talks to a meteorologist from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Weather Centre to find out about the differing conditions in different parts of the country.
We hear about a Leicestershire farm which is helping the NHS to try out a new way of making it easier for hospital patients to get the nutrition they need.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced in Bristol by Emma Campbell.
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