Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Sexing chicks before they hatch, BBC Food & Farming Awards finalist McDonald's, Salmon conservation
Scientists are working on new technology to detect the sex of chicks before they hatch.
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Flood Relief Delays in Cumbria, Mental Health, Food and Farming Awards
Cumbrian farmers report problems applying for much needed flood relief grants.
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Farming Today This Week: Poultry industry
Broadcasting from a brand new chicken farm to look at the UK poultry industry.
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Police and crime commissioners elections, Campylobacter in poultry, Rural Payments Agency and subsidies and dairy
Rural issues affecting the election of police and crime commissioners.
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European Subsidies Update
English farmers are to be given bridging payments to tide them over.
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NFU position on Brexit
The NFU has announced its support for staying in the EU and the president explains why.
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NFU position on Brexit
A new milk ad is getting dairy farmers talking. Plus election issues in rural Wales.
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NFU views on Brexit, poultry industry, traditional grasses
A look at the choices the NFU must make in deciding its position on the EU referendum.
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Farming Today This Week: Agricultural Research
A look at some of the innovative research happening in the agricultural sector.
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International and UK dairy market, Tenant farm payments, Bees and other pollinators
The international dairy market is in crisis, and the latest research on bees.
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Glyphosate EU vote, Children learn farming, Rust research
MEPs resist a ban, but back calls for restrictions on the use of weedkiller glyphosate.
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Rural housing, New breed of sheep, Hydrogen-powered farmer
The campaign to save affordable housing in the British countryside.
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Insect farming, Sprayer research, Wonky vegetables
Farming Today looks at why farmers could be turning to insect production.
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The Government U-turn on Animal Wwelfare
Animal welfare changes, the Norfolk herring season and modern agricultural research.
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Farming Today This Week: Rural Services
A look at rural services under pressure, and the people trying to save them.
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Lynx for the British Countryside?
Cattle at agricultural shows, lynx reintroduction, care farms and rural service cuts.
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World agriculture ministers to meet
World agriculture ministers meet in Paris to discuss how to feed the planet.
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New rules on micro-chipping dogs
All dogs in England, Scotland and Wales must be micro-chipped.
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Domestic abuse as common in the countryside as the city
Farming Today hears that domestic abuse is as common in the countryside as the city.
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Dogs shot on farms for worrying livestock
The programme reveals how dogs are being shot in England and Wales for worrying livestock.
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Farming Today This Week: Farm Attractions
Sybil Ruscoe visits Shortwood Farm in Herefordshire to find out about farm attractions.
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Rat Poison Controls
Tougher rules on the use of industrial rat poison come into effect.
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Poultry Welfare - Concern over changes to welfare guidance, Hillfarming on stage in Keswick
Concern at changes in the poultry industry as producers are put in charge of guidance.
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Labelling UK lamb, Increasing English wine exports, Promoting Scottish farms
When it comes to food labelling, what does it mean for lamb to be classified as British?
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Living Wage, Farm attractions - lambing, Spring Barley struggling with the mud
A debate on the introduction of the Living Wage with NFU and Unite.
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Forty Years of Farms for City Children
Michael and Clare Morpurgo celebrate 40 years of their charity Farms for City Children.
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Farming Today This Week: Coastal Farming
Sybil Ruscoe is on the newly created Steart Marshes on the Severn Estuary.
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Mid-Wales coastal village of Fairbourne facing abandonment to sea in 40 years
Rising sea levels threaten the mid-Wales coastal villagers of Fairbourne near Barmouth.
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Farm Demo in London, Labour's Kerry McCarthy on Bremain, Tesco's fictional farms
'No Farmers No Food' was the cry as UK farmers protested on the streets of London.
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Brexit farming manifesto, Coastal farming, Farming at school, Glyphosate decision
The Brexit supporters launch their manifesto for farming.