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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 02/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Will the coronavirus permanently change our relationship with food?

  2. 01/05/20 Dueting with nightingales, impacts of lockdown on dairy industry, farming families in lockdown

    The latest on dairy farmers struggling because of the coronavirus lockdown.

  3. 30/04/20 - Frozen peas, EU trade talks and home education

    We're buying more frozen peas - what does that mean for farmers?

  4. 29/04/20 - Flour surplus, selling fish locally, a postponed farm wedding and covid-eos

    There is a surplus of flour in the UK right now - so why is it so hard to find?

  5. 28/04/20 - Food supply chain during Covid-19, Kids on farms, Community pub in lockdown

    How is our food supply chain coping with Covid-19?

  6. 27/04/20 Lockdown farm education

    Why a time when we can’t get to the countryside is a good time to teach people about it.

  7. 25/04/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Who will pick our fruit and veg this year?

  8. 24/04/20 Beef prices in lockdown

    Farmers are being paid less than the cost of production for their beef during lockdown.

  9. 23/04/20 - British farm workers, run-off, vets and coronavirus

    Will farmers really give jobs to British fruit pickers?

  10. 22/04/20 - Flytipping, water usage, irrigation methods

    With recycling centres and local tips closed, flytipping is on the rise.

  11. 21/04/20 - Small scale cheese producers, dairy crisis, pub landlady and water contamination

    Good news in the face of Covid-19, with a campaign to support British cheese makers.

  12. 20/04/20 - Second-home owners claiming coronavirus grant, Water management, Lambing in Angus

    A call to stop second-home owners claiming a £10,000 coronavirus grant.

  13. 18/04/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Labour shortages, wasted milk and finding solace on social media.

  14. 17/04/20 Picking for Britain

    We hear from farmers trying to recruit British people to pick their crops.

  15. 16/04/20 - Seasonal workers, wild garlic and rural mental health

    As farm workers are flown in from Romania, is it wise or necessary?

  16. 15/04/20 - Sky lanterns, Rural charities during Covid-19, Leeks

    Could a campaign to light sky lanterns to show support for the NHS lead to wildfires?

  17. 14/04/20 Yorkshire Shepherdess, lamb bacon, onions, Cornish veg boxes

    Coronavirus is shutting Britain down, but farmers are still out producing food.

  18. 13/04/20 Success and struggle in the Covid-19 era

    Anna Jones talks to farm retailers who are changing their businesses to cope with lockdown

  19. 11/04/20 - Farming Today This Week

    How rural communities and businesses are coping with the coronavirus.

  20. 10/04/20 Voluntary food effort in East Yorkshire

    Chef and reporter Gerard Baker is part of a voluntary food effort in East Yorkshire.

  21. 09/04/20 Calls for changes to the Agriculture Bill in the light of coronavirus

    Should the Agriculture Bill be refocused with more attention on food security?

  22. Daffodil growers struggling with coronavirus restrictions

    Scottish daffodils left unpicked. Growers are now concerned about their bulb exports.

  23. 07/04/20 Dairy farmers are having to dump their milk due to coronavirus drop in demand

    We hear from a dairy farmer who has had to pour 3,000 litres of milk in his slurry tank.

  24. 06/04/20 - Plant nurseries, rural tourism and agricultural shows

    Garden centres are closed and wholesale nurseries can’t sell their plants.

  25. Farming Today This Week

    Sybil Ruscoe rounds up a week of programmes focussing on trees and coronavirus.

  26. 03/04/20: Spring drilling, Growing demand for veg boxes, Ash dieback

    Is it worth drilling crops this spring?

  27. 02/04/20 Abattoirs and coronavirus, Commerical forestry, Audio diary from Archdeacon of Cardigan

    Sybil Ruscoe finds out what the coronavirus outbreak means for the supply of meat.

  28. 01/04/20 Social distancing in horticulture, Coronavirus lockdown on a goat farm, Jobs in arboriculture

    Anna Hill finds out about new measures to keep fruit pickers safe from coronavirus.

  29. 31/03/20 Nationwide scheme to recruit British crop pickers

    Talks with the DEFRA secretary on a nationwide scheme to recruit agricultural workers.

  30. 30/03/20 For the love of trees; Newmarket races and coronavirus; Rural tourism in Angus

    Charlotte Smith speaks to Darren Moorcroft from The Woodland Trust about their work.

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