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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 16/04/26 Lough Neagh dredging, concerns about government labs in Northern Ireland, National Park dark skies, rural church crime

    New research suggests dredging is affecting water quality in Lough Neagh.

  2. 15/04/2026 Fuel protests in Northern Ireland, waste licences, National Park peat restoration.

    Tractor protests in Northern Ireland over spiralling fuel costs.

  3. 14/04/2026 Plastic costs, carbon tax, National Parks

    Plastic costs, carbon tax, National Parks celebration.

  4. 13/04/26: Alternative fertilisers, Capercaillie in the Cairngorms.

    The search for fertilisers which don't have to be imported, to lessen price shocks.

  5. 11/04/26 Farming Today This Week: Wildfires, bioethanol plant reopening, spring planting, oilseed rape

    Why the risk of wildfires is so high in the spring.

  6. 10/04/12 Wildfire season and recovery after moorland fires last year, planting herbs

    UK wildfire season and the farmer recovering after a moorland blaze last year.

  7. 09/04/26 C02 plant back up and running, planting in a bog, oilseed rape

    Farmers can once again sell their wheat for bioethanol, as CO2 plant reopens.

  8. 08/04/26 Avian influenza, tenant farmer code in Wales, spring barley.

    Free range poultry can range freely outdoors again as housing order is lifted.

  9. 07/04/2026 Illegal meat, geothermal glasshouse, spring planting

    Illegal meat still breaching UK borders, with 14 tonnes seized at Dover in a single week.

  10. 06/04/26 Fifty Years of Photographing Farmers

    Photographing the changing face of agriculture over fifty years.

  11. 04/04/2026 Farming Today This Week: Ferry disruption, fishing industry hit by fuel costs, lambing, wild daffodils

    Warnings ferry service disruption putting animal welfare at risk on Scottish islands.

  12. 03/04/26 "Muddy Fingers" McGurn

    The potter using clay from the land to tell the story of a County Fermanagh farm.

  13. 02/04/26 Ferries and islanders on Barra, rare breed sheep, soil

    Major disruption to Scottish ferry services and its toll on a small Hebridean island.

  14. 01/04/26 Rural fuel poverty; emissions from sheep; Marine Protected Areas.

    Fuel poverty hits deeper and is growing more quickly in rural areas, new figures show.

  15. 31/03/26 Record livestock mart figures, lambing list, Ramblers report

    Livestock markets report a record turnover - how much longer can high prices last?

  16. 30/03/2026: Fishing industry hit by fuel costs. A good time to be a sheep farmer? Wild Daffodils

    The fishing industry seeks government help over spiralling diesel costs.

  17. 28/03/26 Farming Today This Week: trail hunting; impact of Middle East war; shellfish; geese; Victorian farming; farmer choir.

    Trail hunting - the government wants to ban it, the consultation's started.

  18. 27/03/26: Trail hunting ban consultation, How WWII shaped farming

    The government is pressing ahead with its ban on trail hunting in England and Wales.

  19. 26/03/26 Scottish rural policy, green gas, Victorian farming.

    Scottish government reveals how farm support payments will work over next five years.

  20. 25/03/26 Environmental regulation, geese, The Enclosure Act and the farming landscape.

    Should the Environment Agency and Natural England be merged?

  21. 24/03/26 Middle East conflict and supply chains, processing shellfish, medieval farming.

    Will continuing conflict in the Middle East now lead to price hikes in the supermarket?

  22. 23/03/26 Potato oversupply, history of change in farming, new crop tech research centre

    Have potatoes had their chips?

  23. 21/03/26 Farming Today This Week: Land Use Framework; heating oil help; new livestock worrying law; oat drink.

    What difference will England's Land Use Framework make?

  24. 20/03/26 Commoners excluded from environmental schemes, bean processing, new science at the Commonwealth Potato Collection

    Why nearly 4,000 farmers are excluded from the new environmental support schemes.

  25. 19/03/26 Land Use Framework, oat drink production

    What difference will England's Land Use Framework make?

  26. 18/03/27 England's new land use framework

    The government launches its new land use framework for England.

  27. 17/03/26 Energy bills in rural homes, new livestock worrying laws, processing venison

    Government pledges £53 million to help vulnerable rural households pay for heating oil.

  28. 16/03/26: Impact of war on Ukraine's soil, village cut off by landslide, food processing

    New research on the impact of war on the soils of Ukraine.

  29. 14/03/2026: Fuel and fertiliser price rises, sheep shearing visas, robotics research, farm incomes

    How the Middle East conflict is affecting rural communities and growers.

  30. 13/03/26 The foods of the future, farm incomes, chicken muck

    Regulating foods of the future, for instance lab-grown meat, insects and 3D printed foods.

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