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Livestock theft cost around 拢6.6m last year, according to the farm insurance company NFU Mutual. But now Lancashire farmers are fighting back by joining forces with the police and local auctions to tackle livestock crime. They've been so successful that other farmers across Britain are adopting their anti-rustling strategy.

Farmers in Cumbria and north Lancashire face a tough Christmas clearing up after the recent devastating rainfall and flooding. We hear how Forage Aid is helping out with donations of feed, bedding and transport.

And it's a vintage time for Anglo-French wine relations as a top French champagne house buys up farmland in Kent so that it can produce a premium English Sparkling Wine - but Farming Today is looking for a more bubbly name for our homegrown wine!

Presenter:Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sybil Ruscoe.