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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 21/03/23 Henry Dimbleby stands down from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

    Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby resigns from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

  2. 20/03/23 Calls to re-open inquiry into shellfish deaths; shellfish industry; seasonal workers

    Calls to re-open shellfish inquiry; shellfish industry; new seasonal worker task force.

  3. 18/03/23 Farming Today This Week: rows over sheep; Dutch farmers winning elections; exploited migrant workers.

    The tensions between where sheep are, should be, should not be and who decides.

  4. 17/03/23 Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to be drastically reduced: Private finance carbon capture

    Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to reduce dramatically. Private finance and carbon capture.

  5. 16/03/23 Budget response: from a farming and environmental perspective; Plant Atlas.

    What's in the budget for farming and the environment? Plant Atlas and biodiversity loss.

  6. 15/03/23 Rural poverty; biodiversity credits; tree disease

    Rural poverty, farmers selling bio-diversity credits, and disease destroying larch trees.

  7. 14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

    Nepalese workers exploited by employment agency. Sea eagle re-introduction. New wetlands.

  8. 13/03/23 Fruit growers giving up on apples, the Precision Breeding Act, Wild Isles.

    Why apple growers are digging up their orchards.

  9. 11/03/2023 Farming Today This Week: food fraud, imported beef sold as British; upland farm incomes; drought

    Imported beef sold as British; hill farm incomes fall, but minister defends ELMS; drought.

  10. 10/03/2023 Food fraud: imported beef sold as British

    Imported beef sold as British: 10 years after horsegate we ask how this can happen.

  11. 09/03/2023 Anger at drop in income for hill farmers, dairy welfare tech, new register for backyard hens

    Warnings that the government's green approach to hill farming will backfire.

  12. 08/08/2023 - Poultry energy costs; drought; dairy farms and environmental permits.

    Poultry energy costs; drought; and an environmental permit system for dairy farms.

  13. 07/03/23 - Upland farm incomes; DEFRA net zero policies; Indoor dairy herds.

    Hill farmers face a big drop in income; DEFRA net zero policies; and indoor dairy herds.

  14. 06/03/2023: Dairy, rewilding and neonicitinoids.

    Neonicotinoids are to be used in the UK despite having been banned several years ago.

  15. 04/03/23 Farming Today This Week: Sheep and the Windsor Framework, the Dutch farms facing repossession, more on salad shortages.

    Salad shortages: we hear from European growers visiting the UK.

  16. 03/03/2023 - Belgian tomato growers visit the UK, and can tech solve tail biting?

    We hear from a co-op of 1,000 fruit and salad growers from Belgium.

  17. 02/03/2023 - Pig production and labelling of pork, growing more British fruit and veg

    Producing pork and labelling to show welfare standards, and growing more British produce.

  18. 01/03/2023 - Chicken welfare, Pig medicine, Northern Ireland sheep

    Fast-growing chicken breeds, zinc treatment for pigs, farmers and the Windsor agreement.

  19. 28/02/23 - Northern Ireland Protocol and farming, pig prices, Dutch farms facing closure

    The Northern Ireland Protocol and farming; pig prices; and Dutch farms facing closure.

  20. 27/02/23 - Pork prices, dairy volatility and hoof trimming

    Pig farmers have been losing money on every pig they sell for 2 years.

  21. 25/02/23 Farming Today This Week: Salad Shortages Special

    Bare shelves in supermarkets where salads should be - we ask what's going on.

  22. 24/02/2023 Butcher shortage; Strawberries; Reintroducing wildcats

    UK butcher shortage, all-year-round strawberries, and wildcat reintroduction.

  23. 23/02/23 - Salad grower, Defra secretary at NFU conference, Reintroducing hoverflies

    Tomato grower on salad shortages, Defra secretary at NFU conference, and re-introductions.

  24. 22/02/23 NFU Conference; Defra Minister, Labour leader nd NFU president Minette Batters.

    NFU Conference, Defra minister; Labour leader and NFU president.

  25. 21/02/23 Salad shortages; Wheat disease; Juniper reintroduction

    Salad shortage in supermarkets, disease-resistant wheat and juniper re-introduction.

  26. 20/02/23 - Seasonal worker scheme, species re-introductions and global food trade

    Is the seasonal worker visa scheme failing to work for both workers and operators?

  27. 18/03/23 Farming Today This Week: Seasonal Labour; Environment Agency delays; Space tech used in food and farming; Lambing

    Seasonal labour, delays at Environment Agency, space tech in farming, and lambing.

  28. 17/02/23 - Seasonal workers, Mars rover tech and lambing

    One of the firms that operates the seasonal workers visa scheme has its licence revoked.

  29. 16/02/23 - Monitoring fishing from space, lambing and ammonia emissions

    Using satellites to monitor illegal fishing.

  30. 15/02/23 Environment Agency delays; Meat in space; Seabirds

    Poultry farmer says admin delays are jeopardizing business. Space-grown meat; Seabirds.

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