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Badger Cull confirmed by Defra, Protesting French farmers, Exporting Scottish salmon to China

With the pilot badger cull now underway across three counties in the west of England, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner describes the lessons police have learnt.

With Defra having confirmed that the 2015 pilot badger cull is now underway across three counties in the west of England - Dorset, Gloucestershire and Somerset - Martin Surl, who is Gloucestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner describes the lessons police have learnt in the first two years of the cull.

Nancy Nilcolson reports that Scottish farmed salmon has already found a regular market in Beijing. Marine Harvest exports around 50 tonnes of salmon a week to China. She visits the company's processing plant in Fort William, where the freshly gutted fish are loaded into air freight boxes.

As autumn arrives, so does the game season, with the shooting season for partridge having begun this week. One of the UK's largest game bird hatcheries is in Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales. Rachel Garside hears that there are opportunities for more farmers to diversify into game shooting.

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley.

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  • Fri 4 Sep 201505:45

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