Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Oxford farming conferences - Day 2
Charlotte Smith reports from day two of Oxford's annual farming conferences bonanza
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Oxford farming conferences - Day 1
Charlotte Smith reports from both of Oxford's annual agricultural conferences
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Farm safety, Oxford Farming Conference, Oxford Real Farming Conference
Charlotte Smith finds resistance to change is at the heart of ongoing farm safety issues
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Your Farming Questions Answered
You've sent us your questions about farming - we've had a go at answering them.
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Where do all the trees in our public forests come from?
Inside a nursery where millions of trees are grown from seed for our public forests.
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Review of the Year
Anna Hill looks back at the biggest food and farming stories of 2018.
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Could the future of animal feed be insects?
Sybil Ruscoe visits a prototype insect farm in the Cotswolds.
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A project to wipe out mink... and bring back water voles.
Volunteers in Wales are helping to wipe out mink and improve habitats for water voles.
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A visit to the North York Moors
What is the health and well-being impact of visiting a National Park?
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The Nativity, as told by a farmer, and starring real animals
Sheep, donkeys, cows and alpacas star in nativity this Christmas on working family farm
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Global warming and small businesses; reindeer; festive tractors
Smaller companies are hit hardest by climate change according to a report released today
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Festive Farm Businesses
Charlotte Smith is on a Christmas tree farm in Somerset.
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UK Chicken Industry and Brexit, Solstice Poem, Christmas Nuts, Rural Broadband
Reaction from the UK chicken industry to prospects of a no deal Brexit.
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Environment Bill, Metaldehyde ban, Sausages at Christmas
The government unveils the Environment Bill and proposals for a new environmental watchdog
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Badger cull figures, animal feed shortage, poinsettias, Welsh hampers
More than thirty thousand badgers were culled this year to crack down on bovine TB.
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Farm support payments for urban land, Waste strategy, Tree flood protection, Holly and mistletoe
Should cities be allowed to ask for funding through the Agriculture Bill?
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New Zealand quotas, Rural racism, Eels
Will New Zealand take UK to court over quotas? Country vet challenges racism; eels
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Winter vegetables
Charlotte Smith visits company of specialist vegetable breeders.
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Should newborn calves be kept in single pens? Plus, farmers are urged to plant more trees.
Supermarket says calves cannot be kept in pens on their own.
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Plans for new farm inspection system, anger over men-only awards dinnera, salsify - the veg making a comeback
There is outrage as women are banned at an awards dinner.
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Tackling Flea Beetles, Energy Beet, Leeks Shortage, Wool Industry
A new approach to tackling flea beetle infestation of oilseed rape without using chemicals
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Farming and the environment, black kale, trees for reducing ammonia, Christmas tree shortage
A new NFU report shows that farmers are working with the environment in mind.
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Tree planting in Wales, Hill farmers, Winter vegetables
Welsh farmers fear losing their livelihoods if a large tree-planting scheme goes ahead
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Shellfish
What will Brexit mean for the UK shellfish industry?
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Mussels, chestnuts and getting the most out of soil
To plough or not to plough? Harvesting chestnuts and growing mussels.
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Growing crops with no people, Herd of cattle poisoned, Prawn fishing
More food on less space; botulism kills 157 cows; who'll buy Scottish prawns post Brexit?
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World soil day, Oyster breeding, Carcase competition
Farmers are being urged to be 'the solution to soil pollution' on World Soil Day.
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Michael Gove backs gene editing technology, Illegal dredging, Sea bin
Michael Gove pledges support for gene editing post-Brexit to help agricultural research
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Fodder shortage bites, Shellfish
Farming fodder is running low, and the charity Forage Aid is struggling to cope
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Poultry... but not chicken!
Charlotte Smith discusses the poultry industry on a Welsh turkey farm.