Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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28/06/22 - The increasing cost of fruit production
Anna Hill is on a fruit farm in Kent, finding out why production costs are soaring.
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27/06/22 - Week on a Fruit Farm; fertiliser prices
Week on a fruit farm and fertiliser costs.
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25/06/22 - Farming Today This Week: farm labour, regenerative farming and avian flu
Does the government understand farm labour shortages?
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24/06/22 - Labour Shortages, Bird Flu, Pollution Fine
Labour shortages, Bird flu, Pollution fine.
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23/06/22 - Groundswell 2022
Groundswell 2022 - what is regenerative agriculture?
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22/6/22 - Surplus food, legumes and slug-resistant wheat
Is taking surplus produce from farms an answer to food poverty and reducing food waste?
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21/06/22 - Farming Rules for Water, legumes for cattle, red clover for sheep
The rules on muck spreading change again.
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Bird Flu Consortium launched
Consortium launched to tackle largest ever bird flu outbreak.
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18/06/22 National Food Strategy; Scottish Salmon.
Reaction to the government's food strategy; salmon, wild and farmed.
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17/6/22 - Scottish Good Food Nation bill, salmon and rising farming costs
Two food strategies in a week; we look at Scotland's Good Food Nation bill.
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16/6/22 - Seasonal workers and salmon farming
The government's brought in 10,000 new visas to ease labour shortages, but is it enough?
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15/6/22 - Regenerative farming, wild salmon and seabird deaths
Could regenerative farming feed the UK?
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14/06/2022 - The National Food Strategy and salmon farming
The impact of the National Food Strategy on farmers and food producers.
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13/06/22 - salmon and rising egg costs
We take a look at the UK’s biggest fresh food export: salmon
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11/06/22 Rural housing; Closure of fertiliser plant; Land used for food, nature and energy
Rural housing, fertiliser plant closure and land use - for food, conservation and energy.
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10/06/22 - Rural housing, hay meadows, land use
How will the government's extended right-to-buy plans affect rural communities?
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09/06/22 - Fertiliser costs, land use, the finances of nature recovery
The growing market for private investment in nature recovery.
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08/06/22 - Combining solar panels with food production, and Welsh agricultural policy
Can solar panels be combined with commercial fruit production?
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07/06/22 - Coastal changes, future farming policy in Scotland and small scale horticulture
Will some coastal communities and farm land have to be given up to the sea?
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06/06/22 - Land use, carbon markets and the BBC Food and Farming Awards
Do we need a strategy to manage the competing pressures on land?
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Farming Today This Week: Future Farming
Innovation: A vertical farm, eating grass, robot harvester and weeder, farming royalty.
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03/06/22 - The Queen and the Countryside
A platinum jubilee edition of Farming Today with Vernon Harwood in Windsor.
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02/06/22 - Trash or Treasure
Anna Louise Claydon visits a pop-up festival at Jack’s Veg in Kent.
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01/06/22 - Human food from grass, lab-grown meat and robotic weeders
Will people be eating grass in a future without livestock?
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31/05/2022 - A Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Indiana, Mexico trade deal and vertical farming
What will a Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Indiana mean for farmers?
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30/05/22 Peat fires; Soil workshop; Farming and climate change.
Allegations of illegal peat burning. Soil workshops. Climate change and future farming.
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Farming Today This Week: Chelsea Flower Show
We're at the Chelsea Flower Show hearing about the business of flower growing in the UK.
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27/05/22 New EFRA Committe chair; Flowers; Sugar Beet; Puffins.
A new chair for the EFRA select committee; Bio-dynamic flowers; Sugar Beet; Puffin count.
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26/04/2022 - Dairy prices, Scottish flowers, Efra chair
The price UK farmers receive for their milk is higher than ever before.
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25/05/22 - New Zealand trade deal, rural social care, sunflowers and a tribute to Caroline Drummond
Visiting New Zealand trade reps say UK farmers have nothing to fear from their exports.