Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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08/02/2021 - Fish taskforce, fish re-branding and animal welfare.
What's the latest from the government's fish taskforce?
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06/02/21 Farming Today This Week: Goat Zoom, questions about Red Tractor, farm workers post-Brexit, agro-ecology
A Lancashire farmer is hiring out her goats for lockdown video calls.
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05/02/21 - Tomato sensors, land-sharing, holistic grazing and Nitrate Vulnerable Zones
How sensors on individual tomato plants could help reduce food waste.
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04/02/21 Questions about Red Tractor, new dairy code of conduct, agro-ecology, outdoor education online
Today we hear questions about the Red Tractor scheme from arable farmers.
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03/02/21 Shortage of farm workers, importing breeding stock post-Brexit, agro-forestry
Warnings of a shortage of staff to work on farms post-Brexit.
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02/02/21 Uncertainty about the future of trade in livestock, grazing sheep on cereal crops
Today, future imports and exports of breeding stock with the EU could hang in the balance.
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01/02/21 Problems for food exporters, Cornish shellfish, agroecology
A parliamentary inquiry into problems for food exporters.
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30/01/21: Farming Today This Week; Dairy production, Badger Cull, Heather Burning
At the end of Veganuary we take a look at dairy farming, and the end of the badger cull.
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29/01/21 New fishing taskforce, Lough Neagh eels, calf at foot dairy
A new taskforce to combat post-Brexit problems for fish producers.
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28/01/21: Badger Cull; Water Pollution; Dairy Emissions
Badger cull: no new licenses to be approved in England after 2022.
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27/01/21 Environment Bill delayed; Water management; Sexed Semen; Soft Cheese
Conservationists dismayed by further delays to the passing of the Environment Bill.
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26/01/21 Livestock Transport, Cheese Exports, Milk Deliveries, Farmed fish feed
Scottish meat industry questions plans to reform livestock transport rules.
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25/01/21: Oatly Advert; Ash planting; NI goats
Battle of the stats: we bring Swedish Oatmilk giants Oatly together with the NFU.
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23/01/21 Farming Today This Week: lockdown footpaths, eels going nowhere, dog attacks, vets
Lockdown muddy paths being widened with people trampling farmers' crops.
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22/01/21 Live export, Rural Tourism, Glass eels
MPs are launching an investigation into new rules on the transport of animals.
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21/01/21 Floods, Farm payments, Vets racism research
Farmers affected by flooding tell us how they have been preparing.
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20/01/21 River monitoring, Live imports, New vets
The Environment Agency says funding gap has lead to a decrease in water monitoring.
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19/01/21 Fishermen Protest, Dog Attack, Vets software
Fishing companies protest outside Parliament because of post-Brexit export troubles.
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18/01/21 Walkers trampling crops, Welsh veggies, vets and exports
Lockdown walkers avoiding the mud but trampling the crops.
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16/01/21 Farming Today This Week: EU exports, Emergency Sugar Beet Pesticides, Sea Shanties
How food producers caught up in post-Brexit port chaos are coping with delays.
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15/01/21 Salmon not going to the EU, Pigs in China, Lockdown diary
Food companies caught up in the ‘catastrophic’ export situation.
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14/01/21: Office for Environmental Protection, Sugar beet treatment, African locusts
Dame Glenys Stacey outlines the role of new Office for Environmental Protection.
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13/01/21: EU exports, Farming in Brazil, School egg producers
Scottish fishermen told to tie up boats after EU export hold-ups.
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12/01/21 Emergency sugar beet pesticides, Indian farmer protests
The government explains why it will now allow farmers to use neonicotinoids on sugar beet.
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11/01/21 Stranded Sheep, US Trade Deal, Vertical Farming
The stranded Scottish sheep which should be in Northern Ireland; plus vertical farming.
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09/01/21 Farming Today This Week: gene editing, energy and the new trade deal with EU
Gene editing, energy and the realities of our new trading relationship with the EU.
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08/01/21 George Eustice, Agroecology, Robot Sprayer
Environment secretary George Eustice discusses gene editing in England.
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07/01/21 Gene Editing, Cropping Willow for Energy, British Wool
Consultation begins into changing UK gene editing rules, and money-saving at British Wool
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06/01/21 Seed Potato exports; Post-Brexit Fishing, The Oxford Farming Conferences
Seed potato growers remain unable to export into EU despite Brexit trade deal
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05/01/21 Brexit trade deal, biomethane on farm
Farming under a new EU trade deal - what are the pitfalls and opportunities?