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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 28/02/2022 Vet shortages, 5G dairy, Belfast food producers

    Vet shortages, hi-tech dairy herd, and artisan food producers in Belfast.

  2. 26/02/2022 - Farming Today This Week: ELMs, seasonal worker pay, Ukraine conflict

    We look into the controversy around how much seasonal workers will have to be paid.

  3. 25/02/22 Ukraine War; Storm Damage; Flooding

    Global impact of war in Ukraine. The aftermath of Storm Arwen. Flood plain communities.

  4. 24/02/2022 Farming Rules for Water and rising farm costs

    News from the National Farmers' Union conference.

  5. 23/02/2022 NFU Conference - Pig industry and fertiliser prices

    News from the National Farmers' Union conference.

  6. 22/02/2022 - Growing maize for AD, young farmers and storm damage on farms

    Does growing maize for anaerobic digesters make environmental sense?

  7. 21/02/22 Future of Farming, ELMs payments, and Scotland's forests

    All this week on Farming Today we’re talking about what the future of farming looks like.

  8. 19/02/22 Farming Today This Week: Storms, sea eagles and bees or beets

    The row in Dorset about farmers, eagles and policing, plus other news from this week.

  9. 18/02/22 GM plants and rare breeds

    Proposed changes to legislation around GM crops

  10. 17/02/22 The row in Dorset about farmers, eagles and policing

    Following the deaths of two sea eagles, MP Chris Loder says they are not welcome in Dorset

  11. 16/02/22 Poor mental health in farming; rare breeds Cotswold Lion sheep and Eriskay ponies

    Sybil Ruscoe is in the lambing shed with Cotswold Lion sheep, an 'at risk' rare breed.

  12. 15/02/22 Neonicotinoids, rare breed moiled cattle, best practice maize growing

    The question of whether to use chemicals that harm bees on Britain's sugar beet.

  13. 14/02/22 Shadow DEFRA Secretary, Lowland rewilding, Rare breeds

    Charlotte Smith asks the newish Shadow DEFRA Secretary for his take on new agri-policy.

  14. 12/02/22 Farming Today This Week: Pig crisis summit, livestock markets, Kingsclere Estates

    We report on pig farmers protesting about the thousands of pigs still stuck on farms.

  15. 11/02/22 Emergency pig summit; Livestock market protests

    An emergency summit to fix the crisis in the pig industry. Vegans picket livestock market.

  16. 10/02/2022 Farm retirement payments, dairy sales, online livestock auctions

    Farming’s golden handshake to ‘shake up’ opportunities for new farmers.

  17. 09/02/22 Australian trade deal, The Fast and the Farmer-ish, young livestock auctioneers

    Farming groups express concerns over the Australian trade deal.

  18. Port Isaac fishing and the latest on the pigs crisis

    The latest on the British pig meat crisis and the declining fishing industry of Port Isaac

  19. 07/02/2022 Shellfish deaths; Solar farm; Livestock markets

    Disagreement over cause of shellfish deaths; giant solar farm plans; livestock marts.

  20. 05/02/22 Farming Today This Week: two years from Brexit, rural health, Landscape Recovery Scheme

    Two years since Brexit - how are farming businesses doing now?

  21. 04/02/22 Pig processors; Salmon and Brexit; Elm Trees.

    Pig processors defend their track record. Salmon exports. Disease-resistant elm trees.

  22. 03/02/22 Levelling up in rural areas, dairy exports, NI post-Brexit agri-trade

    Fears that the government’s new levelling up ambitions seem more like levelling down.

  23. 02/02/22 Funding for landscape wide conservation, rural health and social care report, sheep farming after Brexit

    Scheme opens for the government's most ambitious landscape-scale conservation project.

  24. 01/02/22 Calls for a new UK-EU veterinary agreement, Brexit's impact on plant nurseries, red squirrels

    Poultry farmers say not enough is being done to set up a new UK-EU veterinary agreement.

  25. 31/01/22 Otters; Tenant farmers; Brexit two years on

    Otters in decline; Tenant farmer taskforce; Brexit's impact two years on.

  26. 29/01/22 - Farming Today This Week: Food labelling, tree planting and shellfish deaths

    What information should be displayed on food labels?

  27. 28/01/22 New research initiative; Labelling pork; Farmer for Island of Ulva.

    Agricultural universities team up for research; labelling pork; island seeks farmer.

  28. 27/01/2022 Report calls for more government support for farmers with carbon capture; food labelling; Clydesdale horses

    A report says the government’s plans for using tree planting to capture carbon are at risk

  29. 26/01/22 - Carbon labelling on food, farm business resilience and the OEP

    How can you include the carbon footprint of food on a label?

  30. 25/01/22 Tree planting grants for farmers, grass fed beef labeling

    More incentives to plant trees - but will the new grants be a good fit for farmers?

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