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29/01/25 - Avian flu in people, housing orders for birds and English farm payments

Anna Hill visits a free range egg farm where the birds are being kept inside under an avian flu housing.

After the the UK Health Security Agency confirmed a case of avian flu in a person, what does it mean for farmworkers on poultry units?

As avian flu outbreaks in farmed poultry continue, we visit a free range egg farm that's under housing orders, with the chickens shut indoors. New rules mean eggs from previously free range birds that now have to be kept inside can still be sold as "free range" for the duration of the housing order. Before, after 16 weeks inside, eggs would have been labelled as "barn eggs".

And how is the role of out The Environmental Land Management Scheme going? That's the new system of farm payments that is replacing the old EU payments in England since Brexit.

Presented by Anna Hill
Produced by Heather Simons

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  • Wed 29 Jan 2025 05:45

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