03/09/19 Land ownership, Scottish forestry, invasive oysters

Farming Today

• Episode: 03/09/19 Land ownership, Scottish forestry, invasive oysters
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:13:22
• Published: 2019-09-03 12:40

One of the country's biggest farming enterprises, Strutt and Parker Farms, has just changed hands for a reported £200 million pounds. It's been sold to a new private company backed by European investors put together by Belport, a company specialising in the acquisition and management of farms and estate. In Scotland, rather than hill land being sold for grazing sheep there's a growing trend for upland areas to be bought for tree planting. That's largely due to attractive grants and the Scottish Government's ambitious woodland targets. Kent Wildlife Trust has started a control programme of invasive Pacific oysters at selected sites across north Kent. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.