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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 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?

  2. Fishing and trade, mental health in agriculture, wine harvest

    Fishing is again proving a major and problematic issue in the Brexit talks.

  3. 15/10/20 - Rural broadband, fish refuge pools and rights away on farmland.

    How long will it take to improve rural broadband?

  4. 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.

  5. 13/10/20 - New RSPB policy on shooting, the Agriculture Bill and rural house sales

    The RSPB announces new policy on shooting.

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 09/10/20 Keir Starmer on Agriculture Bill

    Keir Starmer says the government are not working hard enough to support British farming.

  9. 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.

  10. 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?

  11. 06/10/20 - ELMs, outdoor education and flooded fields

    What constitutes a 'public good'?

  12. 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.

  13. 03/10/20 - Farming Today This Week: Beef slaughter age, seaweed farming and spelt

    Should beef cattle be slaughtered younger to reduce emissions?

  14. 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.

  15. 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?

  16. 30/09/20 - Beef slaughter age, seaweed rum and rural tourism in COVID times.

    Should cattle go for slaughter at a younger age?

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 23/09/20 - Agricultural colleges during COVID, DEFRA's Brexit preparations, rural services and cockle fishing

    How can you teach farming online?

  23. 22/09/20 - Chicken welfare, Scottish land sales, Agricultural college finances

    Should our chickens be slower growing?

  24. 21/09/20: Polluted rivers, agricultural education, poor wheat harvest

    We ask why, after years of regulation, are England’s rivers still polluted.

  25. 19/09/20 - Farming Today This Week: Crops for drinks, Banham Poultry, the Agriculture Bill and Open Farm Sunday

    After months of pub closures, there are surpluses of the crops grown to make drinks.

  26. 18/09/20 Lords review the Agriculture Bill, RSPCA on welfare standards of food imports, perry cider, cider lake

    The House of Lords is having its say on the Agriculture Bill, and it has lots to say.

  27. 17/09/20 - Moorland burning ban, pea vodka, harvest 2020 and deep burrowing worms

    What has happened to the promised ban on burning on peat bogs?

  28. 16/09/20 - Nestle's Head of Agriculture, new glasshouse technology and malting barley.

    Does COVID mean big international food companies have to start taking ‘local’ seriously?

  29. 15/09/20 - Compensation for poultry processors, on-farm cider production and global soil study.

    After being closed for two weeks because of COVID, a poultry producer wants compensation.

  30. 14/09/20 - Cider apples left to rot, salmon poaching and straw shortages.

    After months of pub closures, cider apples will be left to rot.

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