
20/07/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on how the National Farmers Union is revising its advice to farmers on how and when bird scarers should be used.
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
Bird scarers, the ones which sound a bit like a gunshot, divide opinion, and now the National Farmers Union is revising its advice to farmers on how and when they should be used. They are designed to keep birds off crops, but farmers are now being told to never use the noisy scarers near buildings where people sleep and when it's dark.
Charlotte investigates whether the gloom in the dairy industry is over, after news that 97 per cent of Dairy Farmers of Britain producers have now found new buyers for their milk.
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