Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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24/01/22 Mystery shellfish deaths; Food labelling; New farm support payments.
Fishermen call for help after mass shellfish deaths; food labels; new subsidies system.
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22/01/21 Farming Today This Week: agricultural pollution
Farming and pollution: can you have one without the other?
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21/01/22 - Is water pollution being unfairly blamed on farmers, and reducing methane from cattle
Is river pollution being unfairly blamed on farmers?
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20/01/22 - Farmers tackling bathing water pollution, silage wrap tax, gene editing and urban goats
How farmers in Scotland are tackling the pollution of bathing water sites.
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19/01/22 - River pollution, Moy Park and Brixham fish market
The Farming Minister shares new ideas about the prevention of more water pollution.
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18/01/22 - Dairy bull calves, preventing slurry run off and potato scab
How close are farmers to ending the practice of killing newborn male dairy calves?
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17/01/2022 Pig farmers in crisis, but production is up; farm pollution
How does a year of pigs backing up on farms fit with record production levels?
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15/01/2022 - Farming Today This Week: the Landscapes Review, river pollution and shellfish
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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14/01/2022 High fertiliser prices, Dame Ellen MacArthur, cockles
Will high fertiliser prices mean less British veg?
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13/01/22 - River pollution, shellfish bacteria and mussel farming
MPs say England's rivers are "in a mess" - and farming is partly to blame.
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12/01/22 - River pollution investigations reduced, shellfish exports and beef prices
The Environment Agency cuts back investigations into water pollution incidents.
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11/01/22 - Alternative proteins, Cornish King Crabs and ELMS
Could gorse be a source of food for humans in the future?
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10/01/22 Need for 'hard-headed conversations with retailers' on prices, shellfish industry in trouble
Farmers are advised to get tough with supermarkets.
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08/01/22 - Farming Today This Week: The Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith brings you the highlights of the two farming conferences
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07/01/22 The Secretary of State for the Environment at the Oxford Farming Conference
Land use change for nature won’t impact food production, says George Eustice.
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06/01/22 - The power of Natural Capital, ethical food businesses and future farm payments
How will carbon offsetting impact the future of farming?
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05/01/22 - New laws around hare coursing and the two Oxford farming conferences kick off online
New laws to tackle illegal hare coursing could make a 'significant difference'.
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04/01/22 - Mental resilience in farming, mapping trees and donkey grazing
Resilience in the face of depression.
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Resilience in Farming
Mariclare Carey-Jones is finding out why resilience is such a buzzword in farming.
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01/01/22 Farming Today This Week: New Year's Day Special
We look both forward to 2022 and back at 2021: what might be in store for UK farmers?
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Vital Seeds
Rachel Lovell visits Vital Seeds in Devon.
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Curling
Nancy Nicolson explores the surprising history of Scottish farming and top level curling.
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Culm Grassland
Sarah Swadling explores a rare UK farmland habitat.
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Lake District Valley Tweeds
Caz Graham hears about 13 new Lake District Valley Tweeds.
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Dahlia Beach
Anna Louise Claydon explores Dahlia Beach.
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Christmas Panto
A chatty farmer, his wife Helie, and 300 farm animals put on a panto for the world to see.
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24/12/21 - A Feast of Festive Farming Fun
Charlotte Smith spreads Christmas cheer with a feast of festive farming stories.
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23/12/21 Cornish oysters, new NI farm policy, migrant farm workers, Christmas meat
The UK oysters still not going to Europe.
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22/12/21 - Puffin wrecks, Norwegian cod quotas and honey mead
Why are puffins washing up dead on UK beaches?
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21/12/21 - The end of Farmdrop, avian flu, and parsnips for Christmas
Farmers have been left picking up the pieces after the collapse of Farmdrop.