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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 20/12/21 Import rules, Auction mart vaccinations, Christmas turkeys

    Import rules and getting jabbed at the mart.

  2. 18/12/21 - Farming Today This Week: Trade deals, labour shortages, the 'farmer's wife'

    When is a farmer a 'farmer's wife'?

  3. 17/12/21 Rows over farm workers, the ongoing pig cull, Christmas cheese

    Flower farms added to seasonal worker visas, but recruiting in time will be challenging.

  4. 16/12/21 30,000 pigs culled on farms, how to solve the labour problem, buffalo mozzarella

    The crisis in the pig industry: we discuss what the government is and isn’t doing about it

  5. 15/12/21 - Seasonal workers, Shropshire by-election, vegan cheese alternative

    UK farmers are planning to grow less fruit and veg, because of a lack of labour.

  6. 14/12/21 - NI Protocol, the Lump Sum Exit scheme, a Welsh cheese born in the Netherlands

    Can GPS technology be used to smooth trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

  7. 13/12/21 - The soil 'postcode lottery', post-Covid cheese sales

    Could payments for improving your soil end up as a ‘postcode lottery’?

  8. 11/12/21 Farming Today This Week: Trees felled by Storm Arwen, Defra Secretary on pig crisis, post-Brexit farm payments

    The clear-up from Storm Arwen and Defra Secretary says he's done what was asked on pigs.

  9. 10/12/21 - The trees felled by Storm Arwen, NI farm payments and Kelvin Fletcher goes farming

    The millions of trees felled by Storm Arwen.

  10. 09/12/21 - Fishing accidents, Scottish farm payments, flytipping

    It’s been the worst year in a decade for deaths in the fishing industry.

  11. 08/12/21 - Payments for access, changes to the planning rules and farmers with no electricity

    Has the government changed its tune on paying farmers for public access?

  12. 07/12/21 - Seasonal Workers Pilot, Welsh farm payments and dog attacks

    Could the Seasonal Workers Pilot lead to a segregated work force?

  13. 06/12/21 Defra Secretary on the pig crisis, the future of farm subsidies, tree beetle threatens spruce trees

    The continuing crisis on pig farms - Defra Secretary tells us he has done what was asked.

  14. 04/12/21 - Farming Today This Week: The Sustainable Farming Incentive and labour shortages

    Charlotte Smith visits Thame Farmers Mart in Oxfordshire to test the mood among farmers.

  15. 03/12/21 The Secretary of State for the Environment on the new post-Brexit farming support scheme

    More on the new farm payments in England - but is it enough money to get farmers on board?

  16. 02/12/21 New farm payment scheme revealed, insects for hen feed, Christmas turkey workers

    The new post-Brexit support scheme announced today - will farmers like what they hear?

  17. 01/12/21 Gene-edited farm animals, uncertainty over new subsidy payments, shortage of farm workers in Northern Ireland

    Report calls for animal welfare to be at heart of any plans for gene-edited livestock.

  18. 30/11/21 First beaver translocation in Scotland, Storm Arwen's impact on farms, Riverford veg workers

    The first beavers have been relocated in Scotland since the Government changed its policy.

  19. 29/11/21 - Seasonal Worker Pilot, water sustainability and public sector food procurement

    Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Nepal - three countries where people are keen to work on UK farms.

  20. 27/11/21 Farming Today This Week: Croptec Show, wildlife crime, National Trust's ban on trail hunting

    The National Trust bans trail hunting: the Countryside Alliance says it's disappointing.

  21. 26/11/21 - Trail Hunting and the CropTec Show

    Charlotte Smith is at the CropTec Show in Peterborough.

  22. 25/11/21 - Farming for the Future Award winner, wildlife crime, bird flu lockdown and electrical weed control

    Charlotte Smith hears about an increase in wildlife crime, but a decrease in convictions.

  23. 24/11/21 - Pesticide regulation, breeding disease resistance in seeds, regenerative dairy farming

    Is pesticide regulation failing to protect bees?

  24. 23/11/21 - Lobster deaths, tackling flea beetle, the Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture and algae for animal feed

    The Environment Agency investigates as thousands of lobsters and crabs are washed up dead.

  25. 22/11/21 Food Wales Bill, pine trees disease, crop protection

    The foundations are in place for new a Food Bill in Wales.

  26. 20/11/21 - Farming Today This Week: Pig backlog, chicken cull, polluted oysters and deer management

    The highs and lows of this week's farming news.

  27. 19/11/2021 Calls for Wales to become a 'forest nation', tenant farmers demand longer tenancies, pasture-raised eggs

    Will tenant farmers end up as collateral damage in the rush to plant trees?

  28. 18/11/21 Polluted oysters, farmer loneliness, caged hens

    Calls for a 'culture change' in farming to address loneliness and depression.

  29. 17/11/21 - Pork staff shortages, lighting for fish, organic chicken and the CPTPP

    Anna Hill finds out how switching the lights off could make farmed fish healthier.

  30. 16/11/21 - Continued pig backlog, free range chickens and Scottish slurry spreading rules

    Pig farmers consider aborting piglets as staff shortages at abattoirs continue to bite.

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