06/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bovine TB strategy review, rural racism, algal blooms, short straw

There should be more urgency and a bigger budget to tackle TB in cattle in England while farmers should be empowered to do more to eradicate the disease. Those are headlines from a new report published today. It also calls for a bovine TB tzar to co-ordinate government policy along with investment in IT systems, vaccination and testing. We hear from the report's author, Professor Sir Charles Godfray, the Badger Trust and the National Farmers' Union.

The blue green algae on Lough Neagh has had a big impact on residents and businesses this summer.

Researchers say racism in rural areas is often not reported but has a profound impact on people who visit and live in the countryside.

A wet winter and dry spring meant cereal crops were hard to sow and grew slowly. The result, straw short in stature and in short supply, so greater costs for livestock farmers.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.