Dutch report on reducing agriculture's carbon footprint, drones disturbing wildlife, hop harvest

Farming Today

• Episode: Dutch report on reducing agriculture's carbon footprint, drones disturbing wildlife, hop harvest
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:42
• Published: 2018-09-05 07:00

A Dutch report recommends that its government cuts livestock numbers to meet carbon emissions targets - could that work in the UK? We hear from the National Farmers' Union. In its heyday in the late 1800s, there were nearly 80,000 acres of hops grown in Britain. Now it's more like 2,000 acres. Toby Field visits a farmer in Herefordshire who's recently started growing hops. Police and wildlife experts are becoming increasingly concerned about protected wildlife being disturbed by drones, flown dangerously close to breeding birds and animals. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.