
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


A shortage of vets is currently affecting services across all aspects of public and private animal health and biosecurity. In 2018 the gap in the veterinary workforce was put at 11%. At a hearing yesterday in Westminster the Chief Vet, Christine Middlemiss, told the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee that that shortage had not improved.
All week we're exploring how by-products from farming can be put to use on farm or elsewhere. Today, beer and Marmite.
A virus which causes birth defects in unborn lambs has returned. Schmallenberg disease has been reported since Autumn last year, and now sheep farmers are reporting that some have lost 40% of their new-crop lambs.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
By BBC Radio 44.5
5454 ratings
A shortage of vets is currently affecting services across all aspects of public and private animal health and biosecurity. In 2018 the gap in the veterinary workforce was put at 11%. At a hearing yesterday in Westminster the Chief Vet, Christine Middlemiss, told the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee that that shortage had not improved.
All week we're exploring how by-products from farming can be put to use on farm or elsewhere. Today, beer and Marmite.
A virus which causes birth defects in unborn lambs has returned. Schmallenberg disease has been reported since Autumn last year, and now sheep farmers are reporting that some have lost 40% of their new-crop lambs.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

7,724 Listeners

390 Listeners

879 Listeners

1,037 Listeners

43 Listeners

5,541 Listeners

1,881 Listeners

609 Listeners

725 Listeners

1,832 Listeners

1,060 Listeners

283 Listeners

267 Listeners

246 Listeners

161 Listeners

106 Listeners

86 Listeners

150 Listeners

3,162 Listeners

15 Listeners

19 Listeners

1,639 Listeners

3,088 Listeners

54 Listeners

32 Listeners