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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 31/01/23 - Environment targets; Rural Poverty.

    Targets to improve the environment, and rural homelessness.

  2. 30/01/23 Welsh Agriculture Bill; Rural poverty; Giant Hedge.

    Senedd reports on Agriculture Bill in Wales, rural poverty, and a giant hedge.

  3. 28/01/23 FTTW: Land use, Defra secretary, fishing week

    Farming and the environment with the Defra secretary, Therese Coffey.

  4. 27/01/23 - Defra minister on new environmental schemes; Fishing

    The Defra secretary on the sustainable farming incentive; and pressure on fishing waters.

  5. 26/01/23 - The Scottish hunting ban, more detail on English farm payments, rural buses, abuse in migrant fishing crews

    Loopholes on the Scottish hunting ban are being closed, but the arguments continue.

  6. 25/01/23 25/01/23 Burning heather on peatlands; Fishing apprenticeships

    New report says controlled heather burning can benefit peatlands. Fishing apprenticeship.

  7. 24/02/2023 Fishing labour and visas; Land use and land values.

    Fishing visas and labour shortages. Land prices and land use and communities.

  8. 23/01/23 Land use strategy & fishing industry.

    Lab grown sausages and an apolitical body to set land use policy.

  9. 21/01/2023 Farming Today This Week: Report into mass shellfish deaths; Second homes; Rural crime; Fertilisers.

    Independent report into mass shellfish deaths. Second homes. Rural crime. Fertilisers.

  10. 20/01/23 Double council tax for second homes, reducing fertilisers, new agreement for Dartmoor wild camping

    Council tax on second homes in Cornwall is set to double to ease the housing crisis.

  11. 19/01/23 Rural crime: farmer using tyres to stop joyriders in breach of planning; OEP report; companion cropping for soil health

    The planning laws stopping a farmer from protecting his land from joyriders and criminals.

  12. 18/01/23 Livestock rustling and diesel theft; Fertiliser

    Livestock and diesel thefts. The impact of war and new technologies on fertiliser.

  13. 17/01/23 Northern Ireland border posts, Drone sprayer, Liquid Fertiliser

    Norther Ireland border control posts, spraying by drone and liquid fertilisers.

  14. 16/01/23 Mass shellfish deaths; Deer count, Fertiliser

    Mass shellfish deaths, hi-tech helps deer count and fertilisers.

  15. 14/01/23 Farming Today This Week: 10 Years since the horse meat scandal, end of wild camping on Dartmoor, trucks to Ukraine.

    Ten years since the horse meat scandal - could it happen again?

  16. 13/01/23 Floods; Trucks to Ukraine; Muck spreaders.

    Flooded farmers in Somerset. Farm trucks to Ukraine. Hi-tech muck spreading.

  17. 12/01/23 Hare coursing; insects, food and pesticides; daffodil-picking robot

    Some good news on how updated laws are helping police crackdown on hare coursing.

  18. 11/01/2023 Anniversary of horse meat scandal, Lamma machinery show

    Ten years since the horse meat scandal, could it happen again? Lamma machinery show.

  19. 10/01/2023 US trade, Future of protein, Sustainable seed drill

    US trade, the future of protein, and sustainable seed drill.

  20. 09/01/23 UK hops, farm machinery, highland cattle

    Hop growers are warning that unless something changes many won’t be able to continue.

  21. 07/01/23 - Farming Today This Week: The Oxford Farming Conferences

    Charlotte Smith brings you all the latest from the two Oxford Farming Conferences.

  22. 06/01/23 - The Oxford Farming Conferences: the Politics Sessions

    Anna Hill and Charlotte Smith get into politics at the Oxford Farming Conferences.

  23. 05/01/23 - The Oxford Farming Conferences

    Anna Hill is in Oxford for the two farming conferences.

  24. 04/12/2023 Oxford farming conferences; community meals

    Farming conferences in Oxford and report on food supply chain. Village community meals.

  25. 03/01/23 A new Common Agricultural Policy, farmers' discussion group, Lord Plumb on Great Lives.

    A new CAP for the EU and farmers talking farming.

  26. 02/01/23 - Landscape Recovery Pilot

    Fifty farmers and landowners in the north east Cotswolds come together with big ambitions.

  27. 31/12/22 - 100 Years of Farm Broadcasting

    Charlotte Smith delves into the BBC sound archives to celebrate 100 years of farming radio

  28. 30/12/22 - Natural plant dyes

    Rachel Lovell meets a plant dye farmer in Devon to hear more about her specialist crop.

  29. 29/12/22 - Vital Roots Garden

    How a Dorset couple is using climate change to grow subtropical foods.

  30. 28/12/2022 Commercial wool

    The sheep farm reviving its wool trade.

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