Sentence examples for cull area from inspiring English sources

The government has now decided to abandon the time limit and access requirement and to reduce the minimum cull area.

That trial found that, at best, TB incidence was reduced in the cull area by just 16% after nine years.

I have 35 years' livestock management experience, and I live in the heart of the Forest of Dean – the cull area – and I disagree.

The culling policy has been developed to maximise the benefits shown in previous trials, and to minimise the impact of badgers spreading disease beyond the cull area by including hard boundaries such as motorways and rivers".

The initial restrictions imposed on badger culling were to ensure 70% of badgers were killed and included having access to 70% of cull land, a six-week time limit on the cull and a minimum size of cull area.

The UK's chief vet, Nigel Gibbens, said: "Given the lower level of badger population reduction in the Gloucestershire cull area over the past two years, the benefits of reducing disease in cattle over the planned four-year cull may not be realised there".

The new cull areas will be much larger and will have no upper size limit.

There has been no decision on the number of cull areas for 2016.

The Co-operative said it owned no farms in the pilot cull areas.

According to the letter sent to farmers in Gloucestershire, one of the two cull areas, the activists have caused the cull to fall behind schedule.

They were dropped after assurances were given that the charity would not "name and shame" farmers involved in culls or encourage a boycott of milk in cull areas.