Farming Today - 04/01/2011

Anna Hill hears the lives of thousands of barn owls could be saved by technology. Britain's roads are death traps for owls, and the Hawk and Owl Trust are trying to make them safer by installing alarms which are triggered by cars and will scare off the birds. Anna sees the technology in action at Sculthorpe Moor near King's Lynn. And as politicians, farmers and environmentalists ready themselves for the distinguished Oxford Farming Conference, Farming Today hears from the organiser of a rival event who warns as long as economics and commodity trading stay at the heart of farming, there will always be hungry people in the world. It has been the coldest December in over 100 years, according to the Met Office. But farming is an industry that just can't stop, despite the weather. Farming Today visits a Leicestershire dairy farm where cold threatens to freeze pipes, and hundreds of cows must be milked every day. Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby.