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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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?

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 26/11/21 - Trail Hunting and the CropTec Show

    Charlotte Smith is at the CropTec Show in Peterborough.

  10. 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.

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

    Is pesticide regulation failing to protect bees?

  12. 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.

  13. 22/11/21 Food Wales Bill, pine trees disease, crop protection

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

  14. 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.

  15. 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?

  16. 18/11/21 Polluted oysters, farmer loneliness, caged hens

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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?

  22. 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.

  23. 10/11/21 - Food labelling, earthworm abundance and COP26 sustainable farming pledge

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

  24. 09/11/2021 - Welsh soya imports, reduced tillage and sand dune restoration

    How commodity imports are impacting deforestation abroad.

  25. 08/11/21 Climate change report says eat less meat; Cultivation.

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

  26. 06/11/21 Farming Today This Week: COP26

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

  27. 05/11/21 Methane and net zero; Scottish susbsidy system; Carbon auditing; COP26

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

  28. 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.

  29. 03/11/21 Sustainable soya for animal feed, precision farming

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

  30. 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.

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