Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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30/01/2024 French farmers' protests; Import checks on fresh fruit and veg
French farmers blockade major routes around the country; what's behind the mass protests?
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29/01/24 International trade; Pollock fishermen; Land sales.
Exports and imports and how new border controls phased in this week will affect trade.
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Farming Today This Week: threat to hedgerows, farmers versus supermarkets, health rules for fishermen, family farms
Farmers versus supermarkets makes it to Westminster.
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26/01/2024 Sustainable beef premium; Four Nations farm policy; Family farms
Supermarket offers a sustainability premium to beef farmers who reduce their emissions.
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25/01/2024 Animal transport; Hedgerow protection; Family farms
Report says regulations surrounding animal welfare during transport need improving.
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24/01/24 Grocery debate; Review into farm assurance schemes; Alternative to neonicotinoids; Family farm in Northern Ireland.
Grocery supply chain; Review of farm assurance schemes; New treatment for sugar beet pest.
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23/01/24 Grocery debate; Bird flu compensation; Fishermen medicals; Family farms and succession.
Petition triggers debate about the way supermarkets deal with the farmers who supply them.
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22/01/24 Organic farm payments, flooded farms, family farming
New money for organic farmers in Wales
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20/01/24 Environmental targets; Neonicotinoids; Risk of animal disease at ports; LAMMA show and AI drone mapping; Kaleb's rap.
Government doing too little too slowly to meet its own environmental ambitions says report
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19/01/24 Biosecurity fears following cuts for border checks, AI drone mapping, Rare Earth first episode
Fears that proposed government cuts will allow animal disease into the UK
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18/01/24 Government is too slow on its environmental ambitions, says OEP report; LAMMA Show, waxwings
Report says government doing too little too slowly to meet its own environmental ambitions
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17/01/2024 Beavers in Cairngorms, robotic milking parlours
The reintroduction of beavers to the Cairngorms in Scotland.
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16/01/24 No reason to subsidise agriculture? Cuts to woodland creation in Scotland. Methane tractors.
A Welsh politician suggests farmers might not need public funding at all.
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15/01/2024 Cost of flooding, bluetongue meeting, machinery week
Vegetable supplies after floods.
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13/01/24 German farmer protests; Fairness in supply chain; Soy and insects in animal feed; Mid-winter British strawberries.
German farmer protests, fairness in supply chain, animal feed and British strawberries.
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12/01/24 Footpaths; Soy in animal feed; Three generations of female farmers.
Footpaths neglected in thousands of places; alternatives to soy; female farming family.
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11/01/24 Insects for animal feed and the scientists behind the research
Labs where scientists are working on trials to use insects for protein in animal feed.
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10/01/2024 Pylons on farms, winter strawberries, herbal leys
Pylons in the countryside.
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09/01/2024 Managing flood water; Starlings and animal feed; The cost of cheap food
Managing flood water, starlings and animal feed, and the true cost of cheap food.
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08/01/24 Dutch farmers' party, seaweed farming, feed
A message for British farmers from the Dutch Farmer Citizen Movement.
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06/01/24 Oxford Farming Conferences: political announcements and the power of diversity.
Farming conferences: The Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference.
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05/01/24 Oxford farming conferences: politics and agri-spin
The Environment Secretary and his Labour shadow on food and farming in England.
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04/01/24 Oxford farming conferences: diversity and food supply chains
Today we hear from both farming conferences and discuss the supply chain and diversity.
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03/01/24 Blind farmer; Wet weather; New rules on bottling wine; Upland farmers.
Diversity in farming, wet weather and sheep, new rules on wine corks and upland farmers.
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02/01/24 Girls studying agriculture, Decarbonising pork production, Tweed
New figures show a sharp rise in girls studying agriculture at Scottish colleges.
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01/01/2024 - Exmoor Ponies
Rare breed Exmoor ponies.
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30/12/2023 The Pull of the Plough
Meeting the men and women with a passion for ploughs and ploughing.
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29/12/2023 - Rare White Deer
A herd of rare white deer.
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28/12/2023 Middleton North. From 2023 to 1805.
A farm being returned to how it was in 1805.
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27/12/2023 The Welsh Grand National
Behind the scenes at the Welsh Grand National.