Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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24/10/20 Farming Today This Week: Trade, biodigesters and by-products
We ask how green are biodigesters and hear about a new trade deal with Japan.
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23/10/20 - UK-Japan Trade Deal, UK Protected Foods Logo, leather production and peppermint
As the UK signs a trade deal with Japan, we hear from a Trade Minister.
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22/10/20 - The carbon footprint of anaerobic digesters, a £20,000 sheep dog and teaching children about farming
How green is green energy from biodigesters?
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21/10/20 - Making products from agri-waste and a mast year in our woodlands.
We hear from a company making construction board from agricultural waste.
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20/10/20 - WTO trade rules, feathers for insulation, migrating wild birds and record breaking sheepdogs
Would the World Trade Organisation allow the UK to prevent imports of chlorinated chicken?
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19/10/20 Agricultural by-products, rural broadband, vegetable genebank
Slurry, chicken manure, feathers and straw: the agricultural waste being transformed.
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17/10/20 - Farming Today This Week: The impact of COVID on rural communities and the Agriculture Bill
How has the pandemic changed life in rural communities?
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Fishing and trade, mental health in agriculture, wine harvest
Fishing is again proving a major and problematic issue in the Brexit talks.
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15/10/20 - Rural broadband, fish refuge pools and rights away on farmland.
How long will it take to improve rural broadband?
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14/10/20 - British food standards and the Ag Bill, Greenpeace disrupting trawlers and farm shops in lockdown
After a defeat in Parliament, MPs look for a new way to protect British food standards.
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13/10/20 - New RSPB policy on shooting, the Agriculture Bill and rural house sales
The RSPB announces new policy on shooting.
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12/10/20 How Covid 19 has affected rural Britain, high tech hens
What impact has the pandemic had on life and communities in rural Britain?
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10/10/20 - Farming Today This Week: An in depth look at farming policy post CAP
Caz Graham looks in depth at the future of UK farming policy once we leave the CAP.
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09/10/20 Keir Starmer on Agriculture Bill
Keir Starmer says the government are not working hard enough to support British farming.
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08/10/20 - Live transport of animals abroad, tenant farmers after CAP and nature friendly farming
New footage shows exported British cattle being slaughtered in the Lebanon and Libya.
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07/10/20 - George Eustice on ELMS and Nigel Owens on cattle versus rugby players.
How will the new Environmental Land Management Schemes actually work?
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06/10/20 - ELMs, outdoor education and flooded fields
What constitutes a 'public good'?
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05/10/20 Public money for public goods, Finnich Glen
We look into the future of British agriculture after the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
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03/10/20 - Farming Today This Week: Beef slaughter age, seaweed farming and spelt
Should beef cattle be slaughtered younger to reduce emissions?
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02/10/20 Farmers warn of labour shortages, seaweed for livestock feed, report says national parks should plant more trees
Farming jobs are not deemed skilled enough to allow workers in from abroad.
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01/10/20 - British Woodland Survey, coastal carbon capture and the UK-Norway fishing deal
Are our woods and forests resilient enough for what the future holds?
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30/09/20 - Beef slaughter age, seaweed rum and rural tourism in COVID times.
Should cattle go for slaughter at a younger age?
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29/09/20: New coalition on food standards; Seaweed farm; UK pasta flour
A new coalition has been set up to scrutinise the UK’s food standards post-Brexit.
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28/09/20 - On-farm safety, farm charity survival, seaweed farming
Charlotte Smith considers the state of on-farm safety after five deaths in recent weeks.
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26/09/20 Farming Today This Week: delays at Dover and impact on food exports, chicken welfare, agricultural education
Today we talk day old chicks, chickens, cockles and queuing.
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25/09/20 - Seasonal workers, agricultural T-Levels, the Sustainable Farming Incentive and curlews
Recruitment companies warn they can’t promise to find seasonal farm workers next year.
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24/09/20 - Lorry queues at Dover, farming apprenticeships, food waste and the Agriculture Bill
Warnings of two-day delays to exports leaving Dover next year is causing concern.
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23/09/20 - Agricultural colleges during COVID, DEFRA's Brexit preparations, rural services and cockle fishing
How can you teach farming online?
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22/09/20 - Chicken welfare, Scottish land sales, Agricultural college finances
Should our chickens be slower growing?
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21/09/20: Polluted rivers, agricultural education, poor wheat harvest
We ask why, after years of regulation, are England’s rivers still polluted.