Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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TTIP, Cameron and Johnson on EU referendum, Struggling dairy farmer
A look at how the controversial TTIP deal would affect UK farmers.
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Farming the WWI Battlefields
Sally Challoner meets those farming at Passendale and the Somme, 100 years after the war.
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Farming Today This Week: Consumers and Farmers
Charlotte Smith investigates the relationship between farmer and consumer in agriculture.
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Norway - farming without EU subsidies, Scottish tea at Chelsea, Anaerobic digesters
Farm life in Europe but outside the EU - the programme hears about the Norwegian model.
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Microbeads harming marine life, woodcock decline and fruit packaging
Renewed calls for a ban on plastic microbeads which harm marine life.
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Food fraud and traceability, Grading beef carcasses
Traceability and food fraud are the issues looked at, alongside You and Yours.
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Russian dairy industry, English vineyards, Consumer week.
Russia no longer needs our cheese even if the import ban is lifted, warns dairy expert.
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Cheap meat and superbugs, Chelsea Flower show trends, is the customer always right?
Does the pressure to produce cheap meat fuel the rise in antibiotic resistant superbugs?
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Farming Today This Week: Beef industry
Charlotte Smith is at the UK's biggest beef event to discuss the industry.
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Glyphosate latest in EU, Scottish farm payments report, Cow psychology
The EU's non-decision on the future of glyphosate, the controversial herbicide.
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Rising resistance to antibiotics, Butchers, Safety of GM food
Rising resistance to antibiotics, rural broadband and a report on the safety of GM Food.
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Reducing methane from cattle, Fishing crime, Bees
Scientists look to use microbes to reduce the methane produced by cattle.
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WHO says glyphosate use unlikely to cause cancer from exposure through food
WHO finds glyphosate use unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from food.
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Beef no longer part of trade deal with South America, Village for sale
While beef isn't part of trade talks with South America, some fear it may be reinstated.
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Farming Today This Week: European Referendum Debate
Charlotte Smith hosts a debate about the EU referendum at the Pig and Poultry Fair.
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Rapeseed oil, otters, abbatoirs
Higher levels of a potentially toxic acid has been found in some rapeseed oil.
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Pig and poultry fair, Zoonosis, EU debate, Antibiotic alternatives
Farming Today comes from the Pig and Poultry Fair in Stoneleigh.
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Trawl net designed to reduce discards; EU rural development; Grant for RSPB wetlands
A Scottish fisherman has redesigned the nets he uses to try to catch fewer unwanted fish.
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Rural Broadband; Rural Payments Agency; Fishing and the EU
A look at slow broadband speeds in rural areas and criticism of the Rural Payments Agency.
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Virtual Reality Farming, European Union, Brussels
The virtual reality film claiming to show the reality of pig farming.
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Farming Today This Week: Pest Control and Herbicides
Are farmers managing to protect their crops from pests, while caring for the countryside?
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Milk prices, Dairy conference, Genetically modified insects, Virtual reality farming
The price farmers receive for milk has fallen once again.
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Glyphosate on farms, pig antibiotics and Northern Ireland's vegetable growers
Glyphosate use on farms, pig antibiotics and Northern Ireland's vegetable growers.
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Slug Invasion, CAP Deadline Extension, Autism Farm School, Pests
Presented by Anna Hill. Farmers are expecting a slug invasion.
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Pest control, farm incomes, drones and bison
Including investigation of pest control, drones, falling farm incomes and farming bison.
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Beatrix Potter in the Lake District
Celebrating the farming legacy of Beatrix Potter in the Lake District.
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Farming Today This Week: The Future of Food
Charlotte Smith asks what farms and food production will look like in the years to come.
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Food and Farming Awards, Farm borrowing, Neonicotinoids, Share farming
The Food and Farming Awards, farm borrowing, neonicotinoids and share farming.
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Transatlantic Trade Deal Concerns
Will a transatlantic trade deal with America disadvantage UK farmers?
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Report on agricultural air pollution, Pero the sheepdog, BBC Food and Farming Awards finalist Our Cow Molly, Hops as garnish
An EFRA committee report says farming must do more to prevent damaging gas emissions.