Farming Today - 05/10/2010

Anna Hill hears calls for ducks to be vaccinated against salmonella. Currently there is no legislation, despite duck eggs being implicated in a death from salmonella earlier this year. A visit to a Norfolk duck egg farm illustrates measures which can be taken to combat the disease. Farm buildings which collapsed under heavy snow last winter could once again be under threat. Jonathan Powell from Positive Weather Solutions correctly predicted last year's terrible winter, and has forecast this coming winter will be equally harsh. He tells Farming Today that Scotland will be particularly affected. The five most threatened bumblebees in England have made an unprecedented comeback, apparently down to environmental work by farmers in Kent. The RSPB and Natural England now plan to import the short haired bumble bee from New Zealand and reintroduce it. Presented by Anna Hill, produced by Melvin Rickarby.