Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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09/04/24 - Landlord and Tenant Code of Practice, farrowing crates
Will a new Code of Practice make a difference for tenant farmers?
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08/04/24 Caged hens, young rangers and pig week.
Should egg laying hens be kept in cages?
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06/04/24 Farming Today This Week: Import charges, wet weather, dogs
New labelling rules could cost food companies millions of pounds.
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05/04/24 - Flooded farms fund, accessible footpaths
When can farmers apply for the Farming Recovery Fund?
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04/04/24 - 'Not for EU' labelling, share farming and footpath repairs
New labelling foods which could cost food companies hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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03/04/2024: Price of potatoes; Dogs off the lead; Farm net zero
How does supermarkets selling vegetables at a loss during Easter affect farmers?
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02/04/24 Flooded farms, fox hunting, walking trail
Flooded farmers, fox hunting, long-distance trail.
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01/04/2024 Teenager and shepherd team up in a farming partnership that spans the generations.
The 78-year-old shepherd who's teamed up with a teenager to run her flock.
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30/03/24 Farming Today This Week: Protest at Westminster, cap on land taken out of food production, Brexit impacts on salmon.
Tractors at Westminster as farmers protest.
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Easter Farm Holidays
Easter farm holidays.
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28/03/24 - Scottish salmon exports, basalt dust and flax fishing nets
Scottish salmon farmers say Brexit has cost them £100 million a year in lost exports.
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27/03/24 - ELMs change, leather and otters
Are government environmental schemes threatening food security?
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26/03/24 - London farmer protests, Scottish herring and hempcrete
Farmers head to Westminster to protest over food security.
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25/03/24 The value of British wool; septic tank crisis.
Why is wool so worthless for farmers?
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23/03/24 - Farming Today This Week: Universal credit, grouse moor licencing and shellfish
Why some farmers are being told to sell up and get a different job.
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22/03/24 Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots, illegal waste dumping, oyster fishing on the Fal
Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots becomes a reality.
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21/03/24 - Universal Credit changes for farmers, mussel farming
A change to the benefits system hits farmers disproportionately.
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20/03/24 - Shellfish deaths, incoming Welsh First Minister, waste wool and avian flu
Fishermen and wildlife are still feeling the impact from mass shellfish deaths in 2021
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19/03/24 Farmer protests and EU concessions; Scampi; Special protection areas for wild birds; New national nature reserve.
Farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions.
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18/03/24 Forecast for farm incomes; Scottish land reform; Shellfish.
Forecast for farm incomes in England makes for grim reading as some farms face a 78% fall.
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16/03/24 Farming Today This Week: Badger culls, food labelling, religious slaughter
The UK's Chief Vet discusses plans for more badger culling in England.
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15/03/24 - Welfare labelling, badger culling, cat gut strings and winter planting
The UK's Chief Vet discusses plans for more badger culling in England
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14/03/24 Organised gangs and rural crime; Heritage crime and nighthawkers; Salmon feed from whisky byproducts.
Rural crime and the serious organised criminals who prey on countryside communities.
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13/03/24 Vet shortage, brewing by-product, lamb virus
MPs discuss how a shortage of vets in England is affecting farming and food safety.
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12/03/24 River pollution from poultry farming; Chicken litter used to generate power; Ramadan lamb
Soil Association report calls for a halt to any new intensive broiler farms.
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11/03/24 Tree planting and agroforestry; Pesticides report; Fertiliser from byproducts.
Children create agroforestry; MPs report on insect decline; Byproducts.
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Lambing, hedgerow cutting, new farming entrants
Lambing, hedge trimming rules, new farming entrants.
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08/03/24 Farmer protests; Red Tractor / green tractor row; Learning to lamb.
AHDB and the National Farmers Union call on Red Tractor to drop its green tractor element.
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07/03/24 Spring budget and farming communities: Lambing
The spring budget and what is, or isn't, in it for rural communities.
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06/03/24 - Hedgerow rules, neonics and lambing
Do the new rules protecting hedgerows go far enough?