13/09/24 Sinking ropes to save minke whales, cod negotiations with Norway, willow biomass

Farming Today

More than 50 minke whales and basking sharks get tangled up in fishing gear around the Scottish coast each year. We hear about efforts to stop it from happening.

The fishing industry wants the Government to negotiate a better deal for fishing for cod in Norwegian waters.

With energy prices rising this Autumn, the ability to generate your own power is increasingly attractive to farmers. Growing crops like miscanthus or willow to harvest and burn to produce your own on-farm electricity is one way of doing it.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.