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Some emergency responders in Connecticut have come to the rescue of a squirrel that was caught in a nutty situation Pardon pardon the pun members of Enfield emergency medical services they responded after the squirrel got his head stuck in what appeared to be a plastic or paper cup or subshell it is a shame when these things happen Ovid e.o. Posted on the Enfield Facebook page shows that the squirrel wildly wildly jumping in and flipping into the air in an effort to dislodge the car poor old 3rd thing the responders though that came to the school rules they apparently the 1st attempt to remove the cup was unsuccessful and then they decided one of the responders decided to to throw a towel over over the school's kind of hold it and that proved more successful so the 2nd attempt an officer covered the animal with a blanket held its head and its body steady steady while the other officer removed the cup and then the squirrel just leapt off into some Bushies and off it went not Earth thank you. But it really as our saying about tin cans. A friend of mine said when you have a tin can if you want to recycle it whatever you do eating county school we squeeze the open open end of the county gather where you've taken the lid off because if it just happened to you know fall into I don't know the countryside or landfill or well wherever. Then animals can get their heads stuck in tin cans and also they can cut their tongues if there's a bit of food still left in the can if it's not being washed properly Well even as big will probably get mites to live and because they're so yeah so I do that with my tin cans now every time squash them squash them together so hopefully that will too. To any little creature trying to poke his head in the ass if you see radio Kool and the pet shop. Boys on the show. A. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live. Good morning from b.b.c. Radio Comal I promise breaks is 45 when the show will join us some are 10 Love Songs wasn't that don't forget if you like being go 8. 3845. 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I I. Good morning on the farming today the black menace that decimates crop yields is on the move this is the bit where I would normally Arab a few so you know seeing black crows just take you over to retrieve it but 1st the summer months are a wonderful time for getting out on the hills exploring the countryside and scaling some of the nation's peaks but as we know only too well all weather even in summer can change quickly and dramatically that's why mountain rescue teams across Cumbria are a warning would be Warchus to make sure that properly equipped they say too many people are leaving themselves vulnerable when conditions change Magen Pattison spoke to some keen Warchus about to take on the Lakeland Fells. For some the kitty needs to enjoy a deal on the fails it's fairly obvious always stay hot drink the water pray just take them out. For the most items of the right kind of clothing because as you go the Fells the weather can change very very quickly and can cut you out for pleasure also important sometimes you see people going up the fellows with with ropes which really isn't the right kind of thing it's those unprepared walkers who are causing concern for Menton rescue teams last week was a bit of a nightmare for them out rescue teams across Cumbria we had 25 call our with all of those 12 of them were in the was still area a lot of them on school. And all those 12 and this is the worrying thing only for would you promise traumas like brakes or springs can happen so even the most experienced Walker going on the fails without a waterproof or map is inviting a mishap unwanted for walkers and the teams who have to respond or mountain rescue as a volunteer I when the call are comes they will leave leave the families and they will go. But it does get frustration for them on the families and employers when these are incidents that really shouldn't be happening people should be preparing they should understand that the weather can change and they really do need to think before they go up I'm particularly how they're going to get down to just a bit of forward planning could save energy for rescuers as well as helping workers avoid embarrassment and injury. All reporter Meghan Patterson speaking to Richard Warren of The was Dale mountain rescue team now balancing the need to produce food with protecting wildlife and its habitats is a conundrum we discuss regularly on farming today whether it's the debate over budget culling or as we reported only yesterday the effects of pesticides on pollinators getting that balance right is a challenge for farmers and. Conservationists all over the world including in Africa in today's report Ana Jones and the Nuffield scholars are on a working cattle ranch in game reserve in Kenya and for one of them it feels surprisingly close to home. William Harrington from a small tear called Richmond in North Queensland Australia on a cattle station. And when he says cattle station farming 44 tires and a case of ranchland in North Queensland time many cattle we only run 2000 and we're quite small things nearest neighbor has about 300 acres it is very very different to Europe so they're one of our biggest cattle stations is a source of a small country. And we are on again dry were in need this economics is east of Nairobi and it feels no exact Barmore remains but now it's driving in the land 3 by 3 typical African savannah with the swaying grasses on these planes and the one tree stretching ahead of us and just watching will to be East. Against the skin sky. When you think about Africa this reading it's how you picture it it's. Well it's interesting you say that we're sitting in the fiery car looking over the plains of Africa and you can just as well be sitting on our station for the trains are most definitely the water it's been very interesting for me to see how similar operations operate over here in Australia everything's about efficiency the cost of life the cost of imports and so whole I sitting here looking at how they run their cattle ranches and I've got 2 people for every $200.00 full torque moving out of the intervals as many reasons for that so one of them is social which is rather interesting the other music pretty simple it's called the Lawrence. Just about 20 meters away you can see it. Disgracing. That there's another one coming little bit closer I can see the lights Nairobi in the background . Encroaching ever closer. It's becoming a real problem because some of the locals don't believe that setting aside Lee and for the animals is a legitimately use should be turned into farming and that's more important then conservation. What do you think. I think the one thing that has become obvious on the whole to that we've been doing is that it's a better balance. It's not want to stream of the other it's trying to work out a way both can co-exist when you look at some of the issues facing Africa with long legs and a lot of the social issues gives us appreciation that we haven't got that bad you must have credited straight the rich the continent where everything wants to kill you everything does want to kill you nice try but fortunately for us they're only looking for tourists. So you can get the cattle and quite foreign biggest problem are dingos and which tell the girls we will one of the last people was sheep in their part of the world which was a real problem because the predators would focus on us because it was more or less other food for them around us in the end result was that that decimated their. Shape when it up with nothing and that's a common story along many parts of northern Queensland and other parts of Australia say knowing the pressure from predators is actually quite personalty it is we went for that right there isn't sheep to 15 couple years. Australian Rancho William Harrington on safari in Kenya with Anna Jones now farmers are facing a menace to their crops which is spreading across the country black grass which can severely reduce crop yields has already affected farmers in eastern England and has developed resistance to a range of herbicides the agriculture and horticulture Development Board say black grass has been spreading further west over the last 10 to 15 years our reporter loop de Costa has been to meet a farmer in North Dorset who's having to change the way he works to try to combat an invasion of black grass on his land where did you meet down from then in the sixty's from. Any kind of farming background not really rather like the idea of doing it. Meets all of the seaborne he farms 700 acres of arable land in style to he graze beans weeds barley and oilseed rape mainly for animal feed but some is exported the past few years all of a has seen an invasion of black grass decimate 60 acres of his arable lands the black grass is an annual weed about 80 centimeters top and the flowering heads is a compact Spike often with a purple tinge the unwanted weed mostly emerges among crops during the autumn and frustratingly for farmers it's developed a resistance to herbicides this is a good mile from the home office here in the middle of old wooden shoes are said to serve the St I know I'm sure you know a disaster that occurred straight after a plant in the crop when we had enormous flood the major part of a major field crop was wiped out by floods and you can see here the Black Crowes and other we have taken over you know stranger to black cross you've had it in areas of your land before but this is a very particularly bad area is that I mean if. How much of a drawback is this particular area here this is in the middle of a field so you see black cross just taking over totally Ok so you should go and see what you doing elsewhere trying to combat the black cross with the 3 fallen out again if you follow this. We have on on trip with us today then Woody Goldberg who could be up to mischief but he's been good at the merit. Of what we're going to be like the brownies or the drape there this week that does bring you can see the spring we. 60 acres of lad Richard Lucky was shown to grass 2 years ago with the idea that he would be used by a 4 sided tree for neighboring farmer with the idea that this would give us a good could draw more of the black growth sounds like quite a lot of work that does to make that kind of a transformation if you're gonna be in the right there where you've got dairy farmers in close proximity who take the grasshopper for the rich and it's something we'll probably be doing this coming year as well where you can see the beans over there on the wood at the brown which is the barley that we're probably as it's got that cross probably to go into Ross life for 2 years with the use of rotations we should get it under control we keep on trying that you wouldn't far better prepared to do that. All of a seam on ending looped Acosta's report that will guy gaijin is the National Farmers Union are over Lex but black cross is a very highly adapted plant and it's very competitive when it grows through the year always keeps just ahead of the week crop which is the main crop the farmers grow in this country it grows quite tall just a bit taller than the crop it grows very thickly and produces thousands and thousands of seeds many many times more than the week cropped as and it likes to be sown in the or quote in the autumn also likes wet conditions or the sort of things prevalent in the u.k. And also perhaps Arland and northern France as well but we've seen it spread from the east of England right across the country and I've even heard it's starting to make its presence felt in Scotland as well now. We heard all over there in the measures that he's taking on his farm to try to weed the black grass out if you'll excuse the pun is he on the right lines with the sort of action that he's taking it really depends on what's local to you so he talked about having dairy farmers nearby other farmers might be able to remove whole fields and sell the solids off to someone who's got. Anaerobic digester or other livestock you might even be able to swap some fields if somebody has got to grassland and let them plant grass and graze animals on it for a period of time until the couple of years gone past 2 or 3 years and the black grass seeds are no longer viable you can use hygiene so making sure that you remove any patch is particularly problematic in the field by using glyphosate or just moaning them some people are saying they're even mittens or even hand weeding back cross out so they want to try and get on top of it and have a 100 percent total hygiene approach to the fields and try to remove them all together Wow that is very labor intensive by the sounds of it when we talk about black grass being herbicide resistant does not apply to all sides is there nothing chemical that can help so it's resistant to the kind of selective herbicide that you might use in a weak crop that won't hurt the wheat but it will kill grass weeds and broadly weeds so these selective herbicides it's become increasingly resistant to but interesting there's some work going on from the pharma funded levee board and the u.k. Research councils B.B.'s r c That started to show that the patches of resistant black grass on farms aren't necessarily spreading so farmers could if you like we could improve our understanding of how the black grass resistant parts of the crop. And start to measure and manage them differently to these or come some of the ideas into developing into the new tools and technology trying to overcome the problem in using the tools we caught and of course we hope that one day they'll be more chemicals to control those weeds but at the moment until there's anything to have on the rise and and in the meantime as you say it is on the March westwards it's definitely increasing a lot across the country also years that we just had we had a very very mild winter allowed more Morsi to germinate in the merchant and choke out the crop so we've seen it all over the country much worse than we have in most other years as well so depends law on the year but then of course that means is multiplied up and those thousands of scenes I was talking about will be spreading harvest time right the way Westfield and making it worse for falling in. Guy cage and all of the n.f.u. I'm don't see it from us for today on Felicity Evans the producer in Bristol is all in.

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