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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 09/10/24 - Natural capital report, Thames Water reservoir, beef prices

    The economy is dependent on nature - according to a new report.

  2. 08/10/24 - Cell-cultivated protein, natural flood management, Dartmoor wild camping

    How can we be sure new 'cell-cultivated' foods are safe to eat?

  3. 07/10/24 Charges for abattoir inspections, water management

    Meat industry says many small abattoirs will close if inspection charges go up.

  4. 05/10/24 Farming Today This Week: 'Poultry police', dairy recruitment crisis, imported carrots, deer.

    IT problems with the new poultry register.

  5. 04/10/24 Poultry register, fishing and offshore wind farms, TB in deer

    IT problems with new national bird register.

  6. 03/10/24 - Crisis in dairy recruitment, deer damage to trees, imported carrots

    The dairy industry highlights a crisis in recruitment - how can farmers attract new staff?

  7. 02/10/24 Flood task force, Conservative party conference, farmed deer.

    Flooded farmers and the government's new flood resilience taskforce.

  8. 01/10/24 New kept-bird register, US certification scheme for regen ag, deer cull.

    All kept birds must now be registered, to help stop bird flu.

  9. 30/09/24 - Council farms sell-off, health checks at livestock markets, the problem with deer

    Another council sells off its farms to balance the books.

  10. 28/09/24 Farming Today This Week: Henry Dimbleby, Environmental Land Management Schemes, Planning, Cider Apples

    National Food Strategy author Henry Dimbleby says the agriculture budget must be retained.

  11. 27/09/24 - Henry Dimbleby, dead Scottish salmon, underground energy cables

    Agriculture budget must be retained, says Henry Dimbleby, National Food Strategy author.

  12. 26/09/2024: Bluetongue; Welsh bog; rural planning

    Farmers affected by bluetongue are to be surveyed about the impact of this latest outbreak

  13. 25/09/2024 Brownfield passports, green belt planning, agri-environment schemes.

    New government proposals to speed up planning on brownfield sites.

  14. 24/09/2024 Labour Party conference, solar farm inquiry, bluetongue, cider apples

    Labour party conference - no promises on money, but a land-use framework due this autumn.

  15. 23/09/24 - Upland farmers in trouble, new planning proposals

    Upland farmers face financial pressure due to changing farm support.

  16. 21/09/24 Farming Today This Week: Radical change to food safety proposed, flood repairs outstanding, trail hunting, blackberries

    New plans to use supermarket data to enforce food safety.

  17. 20/09/24 - English devolution, funding for rural communities, farm homeless hostel and storks

    Chronic underinvestment in the English countryside is costing jobs and money.

  18. 19/09/24 - Radical changes to food safety proposed, tech to fight food fraud, curlew conservation, carers' countryside respite

    New plans to use supermarket data to enforce food safety.

  19. 18/08/24 Trail hunting, Blackberries, Lapwings

    Trail hunting - both sides of the debate.

  20. 17/09/24 Lib Dem party conference; Farmland birds; Peat

    It's party conference season and the Lib Dems map out their vision for the countryside.

  21. 16/09/24 More farmland conservation needed for wild birds, legal challenge halts forest, flood repairs outstanding

    Wild bird populations will only recover if more farmland is set aside for conservation.

  22. 14/09/24 - Farming Today This Week: Farming underspend, Westmorland Show, fishing

    Caz Graham brings you the biggest rural stories of the week.

  23. 13/09/24 Sinking ropes to save minke whales, cod negotiations with Norway, willow biomass

    Sinking ropes trial to stop minke whales being tangled in fishing gear.

  24. 12/09/2024 Westmorland Show, farming budget underspend and its impact on the environment

    Small livestock farms are most at threat from cuts to the agriculture budget.

  25. 11/09/24 - Agriculture budget, overfishing, bottom trawling and fishermen health concerns

    Has the government broken the law over fishing quotas?

  26. 10/09/24 - Wet harvest weather, Cornish fish freezing and new EFRA Chair

    Charlotte Smith looks at the impact of the weather on this year's harvest

  27. 09/09/24 - A UK Fishing Strategy, elm disease and a National Park charity

    Does the UK need a fishing strategy?

  28. 07/09/24 Farming Today This Week: bluetongue vaccine, seabed recovery, 拢100m cuts to the farming budget?

    Will the Defra underspend become written into future farming budgets?

  29. 06/09/24 - Bluetongue, temperate rainforests and Scottish veg

    The latest on the bluetongue virus.

  30. 05/09/24 Claims of nature friendly farming budget cuts, commercialising rewilding, hedge cutting

    Will the Defra underspend become written into the future budget for farmers?

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