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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 02/10/24 Flood task force, Conservative party conference, farmed deer.

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 27/09/24 - Henry Dimbleby, dead Scottish salmon, underground energy cables

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

  6. 26/09/2024: Bluetongue; Welsh bog; rural planning

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

  7. 25/09/2024 Brownfield passports, green belt planning, agri-environment schemes.

    New government proposals to speed up planning on brownfield sites.

  8. 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.

  9. 23/09/24 - Upland farmers in trouble, new planning proposals

    Upland farmers face financial pressure due to changing farm support.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 18/08/24 Trail hunting, Blackberries, Lapwings

    Trail hunting - both sides of the debate.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 14/09/24 - Farming Today This Week: Farming underspend, Westmorland Show, fishing

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 11/09/24 - Agriculture budget, overfishing, bottom trawling and fishermen health concerns

    Has the government broken the law over fishing quotas?

  20. 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

  21. 09/09/24 - A UK Fishing Strategy, elm disease and a National Park charity

    Does the UK need a fishing strategy?

  22. 07/09/24 Farming Today This Week: bluetongue vaccine, seabed recovery, £100m cuts to the farming budget?

    Will the Defra underspend become written into future farming budgets?

  23. 06/09/24 - Bluetongue, temperate rainforests and Scottish veg

    The latest on the bluetongue virus.

  24. 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?

  25. 04/09/24 - NI water quality, farmer clusters and potato machinery

    NI water quality targets are likely to be missed, according to a new report.

  26. 03/09/24 - Pharmacy deserts, Biodiversity Net Gain and freeze-dried strawberries

    Rural areas across England are in danger of becoming 'pharmacy deserts'.

  27. 02/09/24 Super resistant potatoes, mussel farming, green finance

    The super potato which may rescue Scotland's tattie business.

  28. 31/08/2024: TB controls; flood relief for farmers; harvest; cattle numbers; saskatoons

    A new approach to controlling TB in cattle is revealed by the Government

  29. 30/08/2024 Bluetongue outbreaks, tea harvest, oilseed rape oil, Food and Farming Award finalists

    Four cases of the bluetongue virus have been confirmed in sheep in Norfolk and Suffolk.

  30. 29/08/2024: Nature in Scotland; a saskatoon berry; pea harvest

    The Scottish Parliament is being urged to introduce legislation for nature targets.

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