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  1. 23/10/25 Environmental regulation in Northern Ireland. Malting barley for beer. Food system report

    Call for new independent environmental regulator in Northern Ireland.

  2. 22/10/25 Water Grid, Perry Pears, Sugar Beet Prices

    Could a network of new ponds built on farms prevent floods and top up drought hit rivers?

  3. 21/10/25 Welfare report on CO2 and the slaughter of pigs; producing cider

    Animal welfare experts call for halt to slaughter of pigs with carbon dioxide.

  4. 20/10/25 Planning reform, beer and growing hops.

    Planning reforms and conservationists' concerns.

  5. 18/10/25 Farming Today This Week: No U-turn on farm inheritance tax, environmental scheme extension "too late", farming in Gaza

    Farming Minister says there'll be no changes to farm inheritance tax plans.

  6. 17/10/25 Farming minister on sustainable farming scheme and inheritance tax. Council farms in Cornwall.

    Farming minister says there'll be no U-turn on government's inheritance tax plans.

  7. 16/10/25 Environmental scheme extension 'too late', The Windsor Framework 'overwhelmingly complex', county council farm incomes

    Fury from farmers who say government’s last minute extension to a scheme comes too late.

  8. 15/10/25: Milk prices, what it takes to get a Council Farm

    Why are farmers' milk prices going down, when dairy has gone up in the shops?

  9. 14/10/25 Microplastics and seafood, council farms, trade tariffs and farm machinery.

    Scientists challenge reports about microplastics and seafood.

  10. 13/10/25 Flood resilience, SNP Conference, county council farms

    'Underpowered and fragmented' - MPs criticise the government's approach to flooding

  11. 11/10/25: Rural crime, River Wye court case, skilled workers visas

    Is the fight against rural crime being won?

  12. 10/10/25: Illegal waste dumping in the countryside, Plaid Cymru, HS2 compulsory purchases

    The increasing amounts of waste dumped in the countryside and how to tackle it.

  13. 09/10/25 Trump's aid package for soyabean farmers, welfare for farmed insects, hare coursing

    President Trump plans to bail out soyabean farmers.

  14. 08/10/25: Rive Wye, rural crime, new nature reserve

    River Wye pollution, rural crime, new nature reserve.

  15. 07/10/25: Skilled workers visas, Neigh-bourhood Watch, British Wool anniversary.

    Dairy farmers in Scotland say changing skilled worker visas could leave them shortstaffed.

  16. 06/10/25: Rural policing, grape harvest, Conservative Party conference

    Is rural crime falling off the radar in some police force areas?

  17. Farming Today This Week: illegal meat, rural poverty, bluetongue, livestock marts, acorns and pigs

    Port health authorities say the amount of illegal meat smuggled into the UK is escalating.

  18. 03/10/25 Rural poverty, Green Party conference, orange markets

    Report finds the way the government measures poverty doesn’t work for rural communities.

  19. 02/10/2025 Cuts to milk price, bluetongue virus and food security

    Cuts to the price farmers get for milk.

  20. 01/10/2025: Illegal meat at Dover, farm wages, economic impact of Wales's environment scheme

    Twenty tonnes of illegal meat have been intercepted at Dover in September.

  21. 30/09/2025: Who let the pigs out? Heat pump 'fixation'? Mart socialising

    The ancient tradition with a vital role in a bumper year for acorns.

  22. 29/09/25: Prime Minister's farming priority, Armagh Bramleys, livestock markets

    The Prime Minister says improving profits is his priority for farming.

  23. 27/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bumper harvest of autumn fruits, cybersecurity, eating seasonally

    How nervous are the major food retailers about cyber hackers?

  24. 26/09/25: Cybersecurity, historic plums, tenant farming commissioner, Autumn arable progress

    How nervous are the major food retailers about the risk of a cyber attack?

  25. 25/09/25 Bumper crop of damsons, dahlias, water management workshop

    The baking heat has had a beneficial impact on this year's damsons and dahlias.

  26. 24/09/25: New farmland bird stats, Corn Buntings, precision Plum growing.

    England's farmland birds are continuing to decline according to new government figures.

  27. 23/09/22: Bluetongue warning, apple harvest, farming for food and nature in Norfolk

    Farmers are being warned against complacency over Bluetongue, as we head into Autumn.

  28. 22/09/2025 Apples and pears, Lib Dem conference, planting trees by drone

    A good year for British apples, but who is planting the orchards of the future?

  29. 20/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Rivers in National Parks, Rural Services, Downpour or drought?

    Rivers in National Parks, rural health and transport, downpour or drought?

  30. 19/09/25 Rural Housing Solutions, NI Rural Politics, Transforming Food Systems

    We hear from people tackling the shortage of rural housing.

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