27/11/20 Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots, bovine TB vaccine, trees planted on peat, price of land for forestry

Farming Today

• Episode: 27/11/20 Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots, bovine TB vaccine, trees planted on peat, price of land for forestry
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:35
• Published: 2020-11-27 07:00

The Scottish government is to develop a licensing system for grouse shoots. It comes on the back of last year’s Werritty Report into the environmental and economic impacts of ‘moor management’, which was commissioned after tagged golden eagles disappeared 'suspiciously'. As part of our week looking at bovine TB, Professor Glyn Hewinson from Aberystwyth University explains why cattle can't yet be vaccinated against the disease and gives us the very latest on where vaccine developments are. The Forestry Commission says lessons will be learnt after it gave permission for trees to be planted on peat land at Berrier, near Penrith in Cumbria. Conservationists have reacted angrily saying the land should be restored as soon as possible and the trees removed. There’s been a 58% increase in the price of land used for commercial forestry between 2019 and 2020, according to the UK Forest Market Report. We hear why. Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.