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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 06/06/20 Dual tariffs for chlorinated chicken imports, pressures on the countryside as lockdown eases, beavers

    Reaction to reports that chlorinated US chicken could be allowed with tariffs imposed.

  2. 05/06/20 Beaver shooting; wool prices; weather extremes and crops; Desert Island Disc choice

    Beaver shooting controversy; plummeting wool prices; crops affected by weather extremes.

  3. 04/06/20 Green recovery after Covid19; blackcurrants; wildflower meadow restoration; antibiotics

    Environment after lockdown; breeding blackcurrants; restoring meadows; antibiotics on farm

  4. 03/06/20 Scottish fishing & Brexit talks; selling milk direct; forestry report; crops for birds

    Brexit fishing talks & Scotland; selling milk direct; future forestry; wildlife crops.

  5. 02/06/20 Pressures on the countryside as lockdown eases, new Red Tractor labels and conservation grazing

    Rural areas overwhelmed as C19 restrictions lifted; Red Tractor scheme extended.

  6. 01/06/20 - Fishing negotiations, farmers called John and wildlife on farms

    This week's Brexit talks will focus on fishing - but will they get anywhere?

  7. 30/05/20 Farming Today This Week

    Our 10th lockdown Saturday programme on drought and asparagus going to seed.

  8. 29/05/20 - Drought, agricultural show cancellations, Solar park and goat meat

    The National Drought Group is meeting after one of the driest Mays on record.

  9. 28/05/20 - Re-opening rural communities, AI in goats and free range eggs.

    We discuss how best to ease lockdown for rural communities.

  10. 27/05/20 Solar farm in Kent, Asparagus picking is a family affair, Clotted cream from goat's milk

    Anna Hill speaks to the company behind the proposed largest solar farm in the country.

  11. 26/05/20 Seasonal farm workers exempt from quarantine rules, closure of agriculture college in Cumbria

    More farm workers expected to come to the UK following relaxation of quarantine rules.

  12. 25/05/20 Crofting

    A look at the crofting way of life in the islands of Lewis and Harris.

  13. 23/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Badgers, beavers and hedgehogs; we discuss land use, bTB and the power of nature.

  14. 22/05/20 Gene editing post-Brexit, rewilding, yoghurt farm

    Calls to ditch the EU rules and allow genetically engineered crops after Brexit.

  15. 21/05/2020 - Pick for Britain, trees or food production and the power of nature.

    British Growers says farmers now have enough pickers to harvest fruit and veg this summer.

  16. 20/05/20 - Institutional land ownership, county farms, EFRA committee on food supply and antibiotics for mastitis

    How will our landscape change as new payments for farmers are introduced?

  17. 19/05/20 - The badger cull, micro-rewildling and frost-hit vineyards.

    The latest twists and turns on the badger cull.

  18. 18/05/20 Wool prices fall, drive through farmers' market, land use

    Warnings that the price farmers get for wool is to fall.

  19. 16/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    The Agriculture Bill and future trade.

  20. 15/05/20 Defeated amendment in the Agriculture Bill

    Can the government be trusted to protect food standards in trade deals?

  21. 14/05/20 - An interview with the Defra Secretary as the Agriculture Bill passes through Parliament

    Our first interview with Defra secretary George Eustice since lockdown began.

  22. 13/05/20 - Safety in meat processing, cheese exports, the Agriculture Bill and reopening the rural economy

    Are meat processing factories safe for workers?

  23. 12/05/20 - Ornamental plant growers, US trade and surplus potatoes.

    Garden centres are re-opening in Wales and England, but is it too late for plant growers?

  24. 11/05/20 UK US trade talks, wildfires, farms adapting to coronavirus

    The BBC's global trade correspondent Dharshini David gives us a trade talks update.

  25. 09/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Sybil Ruscoe catches up on a week of food and farming news.

  26. 08/05/20 Booming bitterns return to Morecambe Bay

    Caz Graham goes searching for the distinctive boom of the Morecambe Bay bittern.

  27. 07/05/20 Report on gamekeepers' motivations, dairy support announced

    Are gamekeepers under pressure to illegally shoot birds of prey that predate game birds?

  28. 06/05/20 - Small farms, market gardening and sheep shearers

    Are small farms the next big idea in farming?

  29. 05/05/20 - Food Strategy, selling milk locally and reducing milk production.

    How will the coronavirus impact the National Food Strategy?

  30. 04/05/20 Overweight horses, sand martins, lambing in Angus

    Welfare worries about the horses getting fat in lockdown.

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