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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 15/11/21 - A silent cull of poultry, cold storage for pork and social crofting

    A ‘silent cull’ of chickens is taking place on UK farms.

  2. 13/11/21 Farming Today This Week: Methane and meat discussed at COP26, Chair of the new TAC, cultivation

    At the end of the second week of the COP climate conference we talk methane and meat.

  3. 12/11/21 - Native seaweed research, milk prices and the history of ploughing matches

    Can native seaweed be used as a feed additive to reduce methane emissions from cattle?

  4. 11/11/21 - Chair of the new TAC, blue carbon and organic no till

    Charlotte Smith speaks to the Chair of the New Trade and Agriculture Commission.

  5. 10/11/21 - Food labelling, earthworm abundance and COP26 sustainable farming pledge

    Can the UK protect standards on imported food through better labelling?

  6. 09/11/2021 - Welsh soya imports, reduced tillage and sand dune restoration

    How commodity imports are impacting deforestation abroad.

  7. 08/11/21 Climate change report says eat less meat; Cultivation.

    A drastic change in diet needed to reduce global warming says new report.

  8. 06/11/21 Farming Today This Week: COP26

    Charlotte Smith hears what the latest announcements at COP26 mean for UK agriculture.

  9. 05/11/21 Methane and net zero; Scottish susbsidy system; Carbon auditing; COP26

    Reducing methane; New Scottish subsidy system; Carbon audits; COP26.

  10. 04/11/21 Meat sent to EU for butchering, farming unions at COP26, bracken for fuel

    An update on livestock and emissions and why British meat is being butchered abroad.

  11. 03/11/21 Sustainable soya for animal feed, precision farming

    We hear whether the supply chain can ensure eco-friendly soya for animal feed.

  12. 02/11/21 Carbon trading, cow poo heating, calls for COP26 to help small scale farmers worldwide

    Cow poo heated water, carbon trading and what COP26 could mean for farmers worldwide.

  13. 01/11/21 Support for pig farmers, Social media campaign to buy British, COP26

    Pig industry help. Sisters campaign to back British farmers. Farming and COP26.

  14. 30/10/21 - Farming Today This Week: COP26, Grassland management, Sewage outflows

    As COP26 kicks off, are UK farmers doing enough to tackle climate change?

  15. 29/10/21 Farming and net zero. Grass. Anglo-French fishing row.

    Can farmers tackle climate change fast enough? Grass. Anglo-French fishing row.

  16. 28/10/21 "Haphazard" transition from CAP farm payments to ELMS, plans to tackle emissions from agriculture, the rural Budget

    MPs warn the government’s "haphazard" transition is putting some English farms at risk.

  17. Changes to rules on sewage discharge, grassland fungi, inflation for agriculture

    The Government will tighten up rules on water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers.

  18. 26/10/21 - Staff shortages, meeting Romanian workers and herbal leys

    Staff shortages in the food supply chain are 'unprecedented, bleak and on-going'.

  19. 25/10/21 - Scottish beavers, pumpkins and grass seeds

    The pitfalls of 'building back beaver' in Scotland.

  20. 23/10/21 Farming Today This Week: Trade and Agriculture Commission, New Zealand trade deal, rural post offices, apples

    A new Trade and Agriculture Commission to scrutinise new trade deals. Is it up to the job?

  21. 22/10/21 Trade and Agriculture Commission, New Zealand trade deal, Apples

    New Trade and Agriculture Commission launched. New Zealand trade deal. Scottish apples.

  22. 21/10/21 Agriculture in the Government's Net Zero Strategy and COP26, apple pickers and storage

    Will agriculture get the attention it deserves at COP26?

  23. 20/10/21 Nitrogen fixing peas, rural post offices, deer collisions, cider apples

    Artificial fertiliser prices are high - one solution is to use nitrogen-fixing peas.

  24. 19/10/21 Calls for unused poultry visas to be reallocated to red meat, labour shortage for apple harvest

    A third of temporary visas for turkey workers is still unallocated.

  25. 18/10/21 - Attracting new butchers, Small abattoirs, Apple harvest

    How do we attract a new generation of butchers?

  26. 16/10/21 Temporary visas for foreign butchers, science in agriculture, huntsman found guilty of encouraging illegal fox hunting

    Reaction to the Government's solution to the current problems facing pig farmers.

  27. 15/10/21 - Pig culling, sheep vaccines and NI Protocol

    Pig farmers await government action to avert a widespread cull.

  28. Young people in rural areas: outpriced and overlooked; bee foraging research, funeral barrow

    Young people outpriced and overlooked in the countryside.

  29. 13/10/21 Fertiliser prices, pig industry crisis, cucumbers grown under ETFE

    Pig farmers making progress to solve the backlog - but will it happen soon enough?

  30. 12/10/21 Farming Today marks BBC Radio 4’s Day of the Scientist

    How collaboration between agricultural and human health scientists will bring about change

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