Farming Today Episodes Episode guide

Pig Farming in the UK

Charlotte Smith visits a pig farm in Devon.
17/01/20: Future of farming after the Agriculture Bill; Protein for pigs

What is the future for farming and for Defra in the light of the new Agriculture Bill?
16/01/20 - The new Agriculture Bill, pig welfare and tail docking

The Agriculture Bill is back, with a few changes.
15/01/20 - High welfare pig farrowing pens, the return of Stormont, banning the badger cull and tree planting

Pig farrowing crates are controversial - we find out about a new high welfare design.
14/01/20 Australian bushfires, pork labelling

We hear whether the Australian bushfires will have an impact on global agricultural trade.
13/01/20: Pig sector, Lambing in January, American trade tariffs

Trade tariffs are affecting exporters of some food products, including cheese and whisky.
Highlights from the Oxford Farming Conferences

Charlotte Smith brings you some of the best bits from the two Oxford Farming Conferences.
10/01/20: Day 3 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

Charlotte Smith reports from both the farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.
09/01/20: Day 2 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

Charlotte Smith hears about the future of trade and the new plan for a food strategy.
08/01/2020 - Day 1 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

Charlotte Smith is at the Oxford Farming Conference.
07/01/20: Farming conferences in Oxford, Tenant farmers, Maximum crop yields.

Charlotte Smith hears about the two farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.
06/01/20 - Mobile abattoirs, farm investment and LAMMA 2020.

Can mobile abattoirs improve animal welfare?
04/01/20 Farming Today This Week: Minette Batters reflects on 2019

The president of the National Farmers' Union looks back on a tumultuous farming year.
03/01/20 - The value of auction marts, the cost of black grass and innovative hydro-power.

How valuable are auction marts to the rural community - new research asks the question.
Island Abattoir

What does the future hold for small-scale abattoirs?
National Pig Centre

Charlotte Smith visits the new National Pig Centre.
Inspiring The Archers

Charlotte Smith visits the real-life farms that help inspire The Archers.
Hare Coursing

Anna Hill investigates the illegal sport of hare coursing.
Farming in the Cradle of Christianity

What's it like farming on the Isle of Iona, which gets more than 100,000 visitors a year?
Plastic Forests

Is it time to rethink the role of single-use plastic guards in tree planting?
Farming the Lakes

Can traditional farming survive in the Lake District?
Mistletoe

Emma Campbell visits a farm preparing to take a crop of mistletoe to auction.
The Young Tenant Farmer

Meet Joe Rabicano - an 18-year-old who has just been awarded a council farm tenancy.
23/12/19: Livestock market carols, Sheep as pest control.

A livestock market near Dundee turns festive to help combat rural isolation.
Data Farming

Data is already changing the way we farm...but what does the future hold?
20/12/19: Licensing grouse moors; Using data to kill weeds, Cob nuts

Charlotte Smith asks what the Werritty report means for the management of grouse moors.
19/12/19: Rural mobile phone signal, Broiler sensors, Reindeer, Fish quotas.

A Norfolk farmer describes how the lack of mobile phone signal could have cost his life.
18/12/19 New study on bovine TB, Digital platform for farm data, Turkey farm

Defra has no immediate plans to change advice for farmers on TB following a new report.
17/12/19: Modern slavery; Data in agriculture; Xmas tree farm; Post-election lobbying

Anna Hill finds out how anglers are helping to combat slavery and people trafficking.
16/12/19: Election results and farming

Charlotte Smith asks what the election result will mean for farming and the environment.