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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 10/05/21 - Virtual health checks, livestock marts reopening and on-farm trials

    Livestock markets are beginning to cautiously open up after lockdown.

  2. 08/05/21 Farming Today This Week

    The UK potato mountain, the EU’s latest move on gene editing, and a weeding robot.

  3. 07/05/21 - Potato mountains, vintage farm machinery and farming emus

    Why more than 20% of last year’s potato crop is still in storage on farms.

  4. 06/05/21 - Deer culling in lockdown, gene editing in the EU and DIY farm machinery

    What next for the UK deer population after culling was hit by lockdown?

  5. 05/05/21 - Farm jobs for the unemployed, a green recovery and robot tractors

    We get more details about a scheme to match up unemployed people with jobs on farms.

  6. 04/05/21 Future farm machinery, robotic weeder, food innovation award

    The robotic weeder who may be destined to be at the top of every farmer’s Christmas list.

  7. The National Botanic Garden of Wales

    Mariclare Carey-Jones visits the onsite farm at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

  8. 01/05/21 - The rural vote, imports and exports and a Lincolnshire pub crawl

    How role with the rural vote play in the May 6th elections?

  9. 30/04/21 Plant clocks, local elections, peat bogs

    How tapping into plants' daily rhythms could make farming more sustainable.

  10. 29/04/21 - Imports from the EU, a global farm sustainability metric and the Scottish election

    Calls for a level playing field across checks on imports and exports from the EU.

  11. 28/04/21 - Food exports post Brexit, Welsh election, land use to save the planet

    UK food and drink exports to the EU in February were 40% down on last year.

  12. 27/04/21: Review into Northern Ireland's food and farming, local council elections, strawberries in heated tunnels

    Sir Peter Kendall heads up a new review into Northern Ireland's food and farming.

  13. 26/04/21 - Growing hemp for CBD in the UK, BBC FAFA Awards and a professional pub lover...

    Pressure on the Government to legalise growing hemp for CBD on British farms.

  14. 24/04/21 Salmon exports, soil, social media hoof trimming

    We dig deep, talk fishy statistics and chat with the latest TikTok sensation.

  15. 23/04/21 - Salmon export figures, naturally GM crops, dung beetles, TikTok hoof trimmer

    Scottish salmon producers dispute government export figures for January.

  16. 22/04/21 - Building in AONBs, a dry and cold April, worm farms and fishing safety

    Are England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are under threat?

  17. 21/04/21 - Bivalve mollusc exports, silvopasture and Labour's Rural Review

    The latest twists and turns in the story of bivalve mollusc exports to the EU.

  18. 20/04/21 - Pick for Britain ends, Carbon storage

    The end of the Pick for Britain campaign.

  19. 19/04/21 Soil, Rural tourism, Potatoes

    Why and how we should care for soils. Rural tourism. Tough times for potato growers.

  20. Farming Today This Week 17/04/21 - 100 Days of Brexit, breeding calmer cows and a new market for wool

    Charlotte Smith checks up on food and farming businesses as the Brexit dust settles.

  21. 16/04/21 Peak District turns 70. Dealing with visitors to Scottish countryside. Welsh fishermen. The stink beetle pest.

    National Park's 70, Scottish rural visitors, bugs tackle bugs, Brexit and Welsh fishermen.

  22. Net zero farming, Brexit and cheese exports, Livestock near misses

    Farmers need to take action now to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

  23. 14/04/2021 - Volatile farm incomes, live animal exports to the EU, the state of our woodlands

    Extreme weather and global commodity trading mean farmers could see more volatile incomes.

  24. 13/04/21 - UK Trade and Business Commission, Exports to the EU, Selling brown wool

    A new independent commission is set up to suggest practical solutions to trade frictions.

  25. 12/04/21 The 'Brains of Brexit' Shanker Singham, pubs re-opening, greening landfill

    100 days since the end of the Brexit transition period - how has it done so far?

  26. 10/04/21 - Farming Today This Week: Dogs in the countryside, wetland rewilding and spring on the farm

    Should dogs have to be kept on the lead at all times in the countryside?

  27. 09/04/21 Dogs' impact on countryside, peat free gardening, French farmer protests

    Should dogs be kept on leads in the countryside?

  28. 08/04/21 - Wild flower theft, Spring drilling and tidal wetland creation

    8,000 wild bluebell bulbs have been illegally dug up in a wood in Norfolk.

  29. 07/04/21: Riding schools in lockdown, rural businesses and lambing

    Riding schools say they are being left behind as lockdowns ease.

  30. 06/04/21 Protecting National Parks; Farming Apps; Shows and No Shows; Smallholder spring.

    Protecting National Parks; agricultural shows; farming apps; new smallholder beginnings.

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