Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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04/04/22 Ukrainian workers. Leaving farming.
Ukrainian workers on British farm help send aid back home. Leaving farming.
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02/04/22 - Farming Today This Week: Australia Trade Deal and food waste
What will the UK-Australia Free Trade Deal mean for UK food and farming?
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01/04/22 - Upland farmers, trade deals and Australian beef farmers
More money for upland farmers, but is it enough?
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31/03/22 - Fertiliser, food waste and Australian sheep farmers
Fertiliser prices and the debate on food waste.
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30/03/22 - New fertiliser technology, grassland sulphur use and whisky exports to Australia.
The Government sets up a roundtable to discuss rising fertiliser prices.
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29/03/22 Chicken muck, seed potatoes, Australian dairy and NI climate
With fertiliser prices at new heights, do farmers value their animal waste more?
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28/03/22 Food security and sustainability, Australia trade deal
Impact of energy crisis on sustainability. EU support to tackle soaring prices. Australia.
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26/03/22 Farming Today This Week: Seed potatoes going to Russia, Manure to replace fertiliser, Lambs
Should Scottish farmers be supplying seed potatoes to Russia?
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25/03/22 - NI badger cull, shellfish deaths and lamb imports
Plans for a badger cull in Northern Ireland have been announced.
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24/03/22 - The Welsh NVZ, manure instead of fertiliser and selling lamb direct
Can increasingly expensive fertiliser be replaced with manures?
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23/03/22 - Seed potatoes sent to Russia, money for tree planting and a new breed of sheep
Should Scottish farmers turn their backs on supplying seed potatoes to Russia?
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22/03/22 - P&O Ferry disruption, lambcam and the future of pigs
Specialist sheep breeders in Northern Ireland are hit by the P&O Ferry suspension.
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21/03/22 No more free range eggs, lamb industry update
As of today, no more free range eggs on our shelves.
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19/03/22 - Inflation, food security, seasonal labour and badger culling
Will the rising cost of farm inputs impact UK food production?
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18/03/22 Clarity on seasonal workers' pay, Defra Secretary on food security, ducks
Clarity from confusion as government departments finally agree on seasonal workers pay.
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17/03/22 - Land use, nature recovery and duck feathers
Do we need a strategy for land use?
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16/03/22 - Food security, animal sentience and organic duck eggs
What will rising input costs mean for UK food security?
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15/03/22 - Red Tractor standards, Gressingham ducks, inflated costs and farming mental health
Should Red Tractor be doing more to encourage farmers to cut pesticide use?
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14/03/22 Pigs, AHDB, Ducks
Soaring grain and gas prices are another blow for pig farmers. Plus the AHDB consultation.
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12/03/22 - Farming Today This Week: Wheat prices and food security, Catch App, NI Protocol
We follow the impact of increased wheat prices through the food chain.
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11/03/22 Food prices and food security, NI eels, fertiliser prices soaring
The RSPB says farmers' calls for a re-think on food security are "shameless opportunism"
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10/03/22 - Record wheat prices, NI Climate Bill, freight crossing the Irish Sea
Record wheat prices but few farmers are celebrating.
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09/03/22 - Low carbon agriculture, NI Protocol negotiations and Dai Jones Llanilar
Should the war in Ukraine change the way we farm?
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08/03/22 - The Catch App, replacing wheat from Ukraine and the NI Protocol
Irish farmers are being asked to grow more cereals amid concerns about global wheat supply
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07/03/22 - Welsh port facilities, the NI Protocol and sheep's milk vodka
Will UK ports and EU food suppliers be ready for new import checks in July?
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05/03/22 Farming Today This Week: New Zealand trade deal, cannabis farm in the Irish Sea, farming in Ukraine
Farming and war - we speak to a farmer in Ukraine.
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04/03/20 - Farming in Ukraine, the future of horticulture and milk contracts
Sybil Ruscoe speaks to a farmer in Ukraine.
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03/03/22 - Isle of Man medicinal cannabis, QR codes for walkers and "community supported agriculture".
We find out about plans for a medicinal cannabis farm on the Isle of Man.
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02/03/22 - Early asparagus harvest, storm damage and wildlife, new potato body and returning yellowhammers.
How has one farmer started harvesting asparagus nearly 2 months early?
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01/03/22 - Trade deal with New Zealand, aid for Ukraine and the singing dairy worker
What does the new New Zealand Trade Deal mean for farmers?