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  1. 21/05/24 - Planning rules change, growing roses and no Spring flush

    New rules make it easier to convert old farm buildings into homes or new businesses.

  2. 20/05/24 Illegal waste; Environmental benchmarking; Flower industry

    An update on the saga of illegal waste, dumped on an industrial scale in woodlands.

  3. 18/05/24 - Farming Today This Week: Farm to Form Summit and the Balmoral Show

    We report from the Farm to Fork Summit in Downing Street and the Balmoral Show.

  4. 17/05/24 The Balmoral Show

    Helen Mark visits the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland.

  5. 16/05/24 - Water company landscape plan, solar farm planning, horticulture strategy and rural tourism

    A water company launches a 25 year environmental plan - to mixed response,

  6. 15/05/24 - The Farm to Fork Summit at 10 Downing Street

    Anna Hill reports from the Farm to Fork Summit at 10 Downing Street

  7. 14/05/24 - Farm to Fork Summit, Welsh holiday homes and a conservation dog

    What will the Farm to Fork Summit mean for farming?

  8. 13/05/2024 - Food exports, rural tourism and new Welsh creamery

    Charlotte Smith hears why British food is still a hard sell.

  9. 11/05/24 Farming Today This Week: Sandeels, funding for robotic pickers, crisis of confidence for farmers, European roadtrip.

    The National Farmers Union says farmer confidence has hit an all-time low.

  10. 10/05/2024 - Seasonal labour, Portuguese rice and growing wasabi

    The government promises five more years of seasonal-worker visas.

  11. 09/05/24 - Regen ag, Iberico pork, OEP water report and tractor factory strike

    Should we pay more for food farmed in an environmentally friendly way?

  12. 08/05/24 - Coast path, carbon sequestration and selling fruit direct

    Walkers protest on the Isle of Wight over a coast path that doesn't follow the coastline.

  13. 07/05/24 UK EU row over sandeels, farmers' collapse in confidence, Bordeaux wine growers in trouble

    Today, the UK and EU row over sandeels.

  14. 06/05/24 Behind the scenes on the Wildland Estate where Scotland's largest landowner is making big changes.

    A billionaire's vision for 80,000 acres in the Cairngorms.

  15. 04/05/24 - Farming Today This Week: Border checks, cider orchards and illegal waste dumping

    Charlotte Smith brings you a round up of the week's food, farming and rural stories.

  16. 03/05/24 Latest badger cull figures, Jeremy Clarkson, sniffing onion disease

    Latest figures from Defra show nearly 20,000 badgers were killed in England last year.

  17. 02/05/2024: Illegal waste dumping; NI veterinary medicines; Natural pesticides

    Illegal waste dumping is under investigation in Kent.

  18. 01/05/25 - Import border checks, local elections and blackgrass

    We report from a border control post on the first day of new checks on food imports.

  19. 30/04/24 - Border checks, global disease monitoring and integrated pest management

    Importers worry new border checks will be unaffordable.

  20. 29/04/24: Cider orchard, Apples, Plant diseases

    A cider orchard is ripped out because of a fall in cider drinking according to the owners.

  21. 27/04/24 Farming Today This Week: illegal fishing, land mines on farmland in Ukraine, universal credits, trees and forestry

    Targeting illegal fishing and the danger of landmines for Ukrainian farmers.

  22. 26/04/2024: Red Tractor, Tree nursery, Universal Credit, Isle of Luing cattle

    Red Tractor scheme's executive has lost the confidence of the National Sheep Association.

  23. 25/04/2024 Illegal fishing, housing estate flock, ash dieback

    How the authorities are targeting illegal fishing.

  24. 24/04/24 - Labour's Rural Crime Strategy, Scottish forestry grants and English deer management

    A new Rural Crime Strategy from the Labour Party.

  25. 23/04/24 - Land mines in Ukraine, trees on farmland and peatland re-wetting

    The Ukrainian farmers risking their lives to produce food.

  26. 22/04/24 Public perception of commercial forestry, the state of UK woodlands, feral pigs in Scotland.

    The public's dislike of commercial forestry is hampering efforts to grow more timber.

  27. 20/04/24 - New Welsh Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary, unlawful game licences and dairy pollution

    We hear from Wales's new Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs.

  28. 19/04/24 River pollution from dairy farms, new border checks for food, pumpkin diversification

    The problem of river pollution from dairy farms.

  29. 18/04/24 Government admits it broke rules on gamebird releases, vegetable oil harvest down, worm diversification

    Defra admits it failed to follow the rules when allowing gamebirds to be released.

  30. 17/04/24 - Wet weather food impacts, farm microbrewery, tenant farmers and seabird dawn chorus

    After months of rain, what will the long-term impact be on fresh produce supply chains?

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