Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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30/05/23 Shaun the Sheep to promote Countryside Code, indoor salmon farm, animal products in medicine
A new Countryside Code champion and farming salmon indoors.
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29/05/23 Young Farmers Clubs come together for the highlight of the year - the county rally.
Wiltshire Young Farmers Clubs come together for the county rally.
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27/05/23 Farming Today This Week: Animal welfare bill; Tenant farmers; Uplands; Wine; Global farming.
Kept animals bill dropped; uplands payments; tenant farmers; wine; global farming.
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26/05/23 Bill dropped which bans animal exports; Increased payments for upland farmers; Dutch farmers
The government drops the bill which bans the live export of animals.
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25/05/23 Tenant farmers to get a new forum, wool prices down, farming in Ukraine
Tenant farmers in England criticise the Government response to a review of the sector.
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24/05/2023 Food prices and supply chain; new marine & wildlife code; ammonia in Northern Ireland; fruit glut in Ghana
Food supply chain; ammonia investigation; marine & wildlife code; fruit glut in Ghana.
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23/05/2023 Wine regulations; Agricultural universities; Brazilian beef production
Changes to wine regulations; a new strategy for agricultural universities; Brazilian beef.
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22/05/23 Scottish Food Security; world farming conference; Welsh seed hub.
Food security in Scotland, the world farming conference, and Wales Seed Hub.
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20/05/23 Farming Today This Week: Interview with the prime minister and reaction to the Food Summit at Downing Street
Reaction to the Food Summit at Downing Street and interview with the prime minister.
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19/05/23 Mental health in rural communities; 50 years of Rare Breeds Survival Trust; Renewable heat for glasshouse
Mental health; rare breeds; growing tomatoes under glass.
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18/05/23: Farm to Fork summit; Glasshouse Growing; Christopher Jones MBE
Campaigning group Sustain responds to missing out on the PM's Farm to Fork summit.
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17/05/23 Special at the Food Summit at Number 10 Downing Street
Special programme from the Food Summit with an interview with prime minister Rishi Sunak.
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16/05/23 Food summit preview; glasshouse growers; rewilding former golf course.
Downing Street food summit; growing under glass; former golf course rewilded.
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15/05/23 Glasshouses, lowland peat emissions, King Charles III coast path
Are mega glasshouses the future?
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13/05/23 - Farming Today This Week: Food prices, Government digital services and agri-tech investing
With food price inflation at its highest since the 1970s, are supermarkets playing fair?
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12/05/23 Surplus of wheat and barley being stored on farms, whisky tourism, Balmoral Show
Why farmers' barns across the country are full of stored wheat and barley.
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11/05/2023 Sunset clause abandoned, bird flu in wild birds, agri-tourism
Retained EU Law bill - the sun sets on the government’s ‘sunset clause’.
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10/05/2023 - Outdated Defra IT systems, pop-up campsites and tulips
Defra's IT systems are outdated and inefficient, according to a committee of MPs.
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09/05/23: Farm robots; technology investment; agricultural tourism
A British farm robot firm fights for survival after a major investor pulls out.
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08/05/23 - The Crown and the Countryside
Vernon Harwood asks how King Charles III has influenced British farming.
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06/05/23 Farming Today This Week: Beef and climate, horticulture strategy scrapped by Government
We discuss the beef with beef; and the Government's horticulture strategy is scrapped.
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05/05/2023: Climate change and beef, Rare Breed cattle
A government advisory body says we need to eat less beef to help combat climate change
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04/05/2023
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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03/05/2023: Carbon footprint of beef production; Lowland peat lands
Growing vegetables on lowland peat lands. Can greenhouse-gas-friendly beef be produced?
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02/05/2023 Airport's impact on rivers, native oysters in the Solent, grass-fed beef
The runways impacting rivers.
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01/05/23 - Deer Management
The number of red deer in the Scottish Highlands has doubled in the past 50 years.
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29/04/23 Jersey cattle deaths; Love Island farmer; Payments to improve the environment; seed potatoes; wheat robot.
Cattle deaths; Love Island farmer; environmental payments; grain robot; seed potatoes.
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28/04/2023 Rebuilding herd on Jersey, seed preservation, on farm hydrogen energy
After botulism wiped out more than 100 cows on Jersey, the farmer is rebuilding his herd.
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27/04/23 Scottish seed potatoes to NI, seed processing, seagrass restoration
A glimmer of hope for Scottish seed potato growers.
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26/04/23 Circadian rhythm of plants, Love Island farmer Will, Grain robots
Isolating plant gene controlling circadian rhythms, Love Island farmer Will, grain robot.