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The Scottish government has announced plans to launch a new brand which will promote dairy products from Scotland, especially in export markets. Meanwhile, there's further bad news for farmers who supply Muller Wiseman, with the announcement of a further cut to the price they'll get for their milk as from March.

Research done at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam has confirmed what was suspected back in November: that the strain of bird flu found at a duck farm in Yorkshire last November may have been carried around the world by migratory birds. Scientists are particularly concerned about the type, known as H5N8, because it is more severe than other outbreaks, such as the one this week in chickens at a farm in Hampshire.

As Farming Today continues its week-long look at lambing, we meet a farmer whose sheep don't lamb until May, and do so nearly three thousand feet up in the hills.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.