09/04/21 Dogs' impact on countryside, peat free gardening, French farmer protests

Dogs should be on leads at all times in the countryside, that’s the call from the Country Land and Business Association, which says that dogs are increasingly a problem. There's been a spike in attacks on sheep over the Easter weekend and a 10% increase in sheep worrying since this time last year.

We hear how the disease Neopsora, spread in dog faeces, is having a devastating impact on a Surrey farmer, causing his cows to miscarry their calves.

The Royal Horticultural Society has announced that it will be completely peat free by 2025 as it switches to other growing media including sphagnum moss.

French farmers are out in the streets in tractors and muck spreaders to highlight their opposition to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.