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	Podcast:		Farming Today
	Episode:		09/02/23 Right to roam on farms, peat training, pests' genomes.
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:13:40
	Publish Date:		2023-02-09 06:00:00
	Description:		The debate about where people can and can't go in the English and Welsh countryside is back on. The Labour Party says if it wins the next election it'll introduce a right to roam and will re-introduce wild camping on Dartmoor too, after a high court decision banned it. What do farmers think? We're talking about peat all this week on Farming Today and the Scottish Government wants to restore a quarter of a million hectares of degraded peat by 2030, under its Peatland Action programme. But it’s reckoned 1,500 more peat restorers are needed, so Scotland's first course in peatland restoration has been launched. The genome of 19 insects which damage crops have been mapped by scientists at Rothamsted Research and their work has been made public. They hope it will lead to more targeted pesticides and other non-chemical methods of controlling crop pests. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
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