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This is all down to Brexit the uk government is killing farmers here I’m taking a farm on net week I have 18.500 acres so I hope I can do good for farming.

Great points.😊

Great video that is me and my tractor at 15 and 47 seconds, I didn’t win any prizes but had a very enjoyable day and really looking forward to competing again next year 🚜😀👍🏼

Ignore that guiter player..

I loved visiting the Weald of Kent match last year. Scorcher of a day but watching everything from overgrown 'cultivators' to the massive steam traction engines with the turn of the (20th) century tractors in between, was fascinating.

Wholesome. ❤🎉❤

Well done, Gareth!

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Cows milk should not be given to humans. We have been weaned. Also there is terrible cruelty in milk production , !!

All the cows are now gone. Very sad state of affairs. Farm is for sale.

Please, brother, I follow you on TH-cam and Instagram. Please help me find a job contract on a farm. May God bless you.🇲🇦🇭🇲🇲🇦

Please, brother, I follow you on TH-cam . Please help me find a job contract on a farm. May God bless you.🇲🇦🇭🇲🇲🇦

Gareth hates badgers, vegans, Brian may, joey Carbstrong, other wildlife, and so on. Just a hater

Musicians should stick to what they are good at; never getting their hands dirty...

Not sure how controlling badgers in farmland is any different to controlling rats in restaurants. If we had a decent forrestry/environment department the job would be done and theee would be no debate!

Farmer Phil and Father Phil and family are the best in the world 🌍 got it .

Stop destroying tge ground with herbicides and pesticides Silly people Stop listening to Experrts ?

Fabulous, informative, brilliant to see natural products being used, seen loads of historic images of seaweed being spread on agricultural land. Believe Edwardian Farm showed seaweed manure for strawberry production Good luck on your crofting journey, i hope we get to come along with you to see your progress

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11 minutes. TB animals and the food chain..now that's relevant but completely ignored.

We all know now the T B test that has been used is a was of time . We also know that TB is spread mainly by cows slurry all better for Farmer to stop the spread of this terrible infection.

Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The last government made a complete hash of controlling bovine TB; the current one has made no noises to suggest it will do anything differently, other than possibly stopping badger culling. I don't agree with the direction Brian May was coming from, but if some of the conclusions his research team reached, such as other routes to reinfection and a lack of specificity and sensitivity in the skin test, larger studies need to be conducted urgently to confirm or refute those conclusions. The loss of a few thousand badgers is inconsequential compared to the suicide rate amongst livestock farmers. And before I get jumped on by a bunch of Vegan eco-warriors, just remember - a lot of the stuff you eat can be just as environmentally damaging as a cow's burp. Your quinoa comes from South America, your almonds and avocados are destroying the ecosystem and the agricultural economy in California's central valley. Livestock can be farmed on areas that will NEVER be suitable for arable farming. Just a couple of examples of why Veganism is not a panacea. Oh, and if it is such a great place to be, why does everyone spend so much time trying to make plants look and taste like chicken and bacon?🤣🤣

Fifty years ago I worked with a lady who always thought the spread of the disease was introduced to the badgers from cattle faeces.

It's a BBC program. What did we expect...?? Brian May is a brilliant musician who is fortunate enough to live in the countryside. A countryside created by generations of farmers and country folk who knew how to manage the land....Brian May should stick to what he's good at and leave the rural folk to do what they are good at....

Vinnie Jones series on Discovery + was very good re badger/hedgehogs. He wanted to stock his farm with rehome hedgehogs from a refuge but was refused due to the presence of badgers.

Who's farted at 1 min 44..🤣🤣🤣

The badger cull does work, and also shows a great boost ti other wildlife, hedge hogs groundnesting birds ground nesing wild bees etc, its about tine somebody had the balls to say this on mainsteam media

Badgers and red kites are completely out of control. A bit like immigration really.

Great video with concise information.

Gareth was poorly treated, as always, the media has its own view about farms and farmers and they do not wish to change as they are lazy. The Devon farmer and attendant vet were clearly known to the Badger group and is biased. An enormous opportunity lost. Much work to be done. May telling he is without power is ludicrous. We love you anyway Gareth

I don't understand why badgers are not put on the general licence the same as foxes are. Where they don't cause problems they'll be left alone, where a farmer needs to address a localised problem he'll be able to protect his livelihood. Simple

It sounds as if they had already decided to ignore Gareth's honesty & knowledge & listen to a man whose skill is playing a guitar! Biased Broadcasting Corporation. Everyone who sees their bias, hypocrisy & ignorance is cancelling their TV licence. To paraphrase one of their threatening letters - are you one of them?!

Best thing you can do is cancel your tv license.

Retired gamekeeper told me he found 8 bumblebee nests scragged but badgers and hedgehog trust locally have said badgers are their biggest threat and predator

I haven't studied this problem to deeply but I heard you say over population of the badge is one of the problems it seems the program was set up to put you Farmers in a bad light you guys must be smarter than that, the BBC is very good at that ,being honest in this situation isn't always the best thing,demand the same time to but your point of views across, Sir Brian May is used to the inner workings of the BBC might have been a good idea to check out the back ground off the program officials to check if there is any hidden bias, wild live is important my father and my sister were Farmers and they done alot to encourage wild life and plants,Badgers are known to carry TB so some control on their population IS required, Be abit more wary with BBC if you don't put your case over as strongly as you can you are playing into their hands, they/we need you Farmers

As with other things of late, the testing is the issue. That is what needs addressing as it is not an open and shut case.

Hi very interesting as a beef farmer myself. I live very near to a chap called Brian hill in fact I know him fairly well he kicked up a stink a few years ago and went head to head with Brian may I just wandered what you’re take on his views are.

Spot on wildlife is being lost because of overpopulation of badger's. Think the closed herd , blaming the bull is a red herring

Why does it matter that he’s a rock star,he’s also an astronomer!!!! At least he’s trying to help and do something to help everyone!!! I don’t see the governments in a hurry to help either!!! Instead of everyone being hard headed,why don’t you try and work together and solve the problem!!! He did bring a lot of attention to the issue!!!!!

Brian may 's documentary was interesting. Will the uk ever be TB free ?

Farming is not a job, it is a vocation - has anybody any information on the farmer led trial in Cornwall where the badgers have been vaccinated? apparently this has been promising enough to roll out on a wider scale.

Disappointed he didn’t appear more! Mr I am! He said contamination could also happen with dirty drinking water! Cows poo anywhere! Animal age is the biggest cause of biodiversity loss and you blame the badger! If a farmer had presented it, imagine the greenwashing!

Impartial BBC, at it again.

@Garethwynjones Thanks for your considered views. I do understand the bias in the BBC programme better now. However, and having read some of the peer-reviewed scientific reports also, I think there's a big difference between badgers being one vector (which I'm sure is true, if you look at the TBUK site film of badgers in cattle sheds) and the idea that culling badgers is the only/main solution. I actually don't think you think it's the only solution, either. The studies done on culling show very questionable, or no, benefits to culling. You mention good work dome in Derbyshire and a 20% reduction in TB from culling. I'd make the point that a 20% reduction actually demonstrates that culling is ineffective. If it were effective, you should be seeing 70, 80 or 90% reductions! Sorry that you had a breakdown. The bull was skin and gamma tested, and later proven clear, but what other biosecurity measures did you take *before* the breakdown, for all possible sources? Did you do, for example, the recommended blocking of badgers from farm buildings, etc, as per TBUK.

Badgers destroy wildlife simple. They are arch predator and ANYTHING edible will be devoured. There are now far too many in the environmenr. I have not seen a hedgehog on my area for 40yrs.

Typical that the BBC would bias an investigative programme on TB away from the badger cause. Obviously, to do this, they would cut out the evidence that the farmers would have presented. After all, they are the main observers of the interaction and balance of nature in the environment. This should have been the focus of the programme. The problem is that people without a background of country knowledge are not going to able to provide a balanced view. So to focus on wildlife groups and activists is not going to provide much use. The programme makers obviously have a position on the outcome. This is not going to be good as they are townies and unlikely to be knowledgeable.

Look at the end of the day Brian may don't care about the farmers in Wales he's got more money than all the farmers it cost a lot of money for farmers over all over stick to music butt

Ithin the reality is that there are many more routes of infection than just badgers or just intra-herd or just deer. The farmign community mention peer reviewed literature clearly demonstrating the effecyiveness of badger culls. Really?: "Veterinary Record, vol 190 issue 6 p e1384 Analysis of the impact of badger culling on bovine tuberculosis in cattle in the high-risk area of England, 2009-2020 Thomas E. S. Langton, Mark W. Jones, Iain McGill First published: 18 March 2022 Results Analyses based on Defra published data using a variety of statistical methodologies did not suggest that badger culling affected herd bTB incidence or prevalence over the study period. In 9 of 10 counties, bTB incidence peaked and began to fall before badger culling commenced. Conclusion This examination of government data obtained over a wide area and a long time period failed to identify a meaningful effect of badger culling on bTB in English cattle herds."

We can't take lessons from May who said badgers shouldn't be ever culled even if the science said it was necessary. More people have died from Mays promotion of his hedonistic and low moral standards that have been his profitable career with Queen. All the TB problem's , and proposed tree planting, and other farming restrictions are coming from a Vegan agenda within Welsh Government.

I can understand your frustration about the program. Like you, I think it would be great to have a series to allow more space for every aspect of the problem. I think that the initial goal here was to show that the badger cull is not THE solution and to open the door to a reflection on the method. The format of one hour TV program has its own rules and it's up to the BBC to do more. I think it's unfair to say that Brian May is not able to talk about tBT. He's a scientist and he knows how to deal with a science problem. Finally, may I remind you of his conclusion to the farmers : let's get together and have a rethink of the problem. So I don't think he doesn't care about farmers.