Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Resilience in Farming
Mariclare Carey-Jones is finding out why resilience is such a buzzword in farming.
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01/01/22 Farming Today This Week: New Year's Day Special
We look both forward to 2022 and back at 2021: what might be in store for UK farmers?
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Vital Seeds
Rachel Lovell visits Vital Seeds in Devon.
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Curling
Nancy Nicolson explores the surprising history of Scottish farming and top level curling.
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Culm Grassland
Sarah Swadling explores a rare UK farmland habitat.
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Lake District Valley Tweeds
Caz Graham hears about 13 new Lake District Valley Tweeds.
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Dahlia Beach
Anna Louise Claydon explores Dahlia Beach.
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Christmas Panto
A chatty farmer, his wife Helie, and 300 farm animals put on a panto for the world to see.
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24/12/21 - A Feast of Festive Farming Fun
Charlotte Smith spreads Christmas cheer with a feast of festive farming stories.
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23/12/21 Cornish oysters, new NI farm policy, migrant farm workers, Christmas meat
The UK oysters still not going to Europe.
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22/12/21 - Puffin wrecks, Norwegian cod quotas and honey mead
Why are puffins washing up dead on UK beaches?
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21/12/21 - The end of Farmdrop, avian flu, and parsnips for Christmas
Farmers have been left picking up the pieces after the collapse of Farmdrop.
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20/12/21 Import rules, Auction mart vaccinations, Christmas turkeys
Import rules and getting jabbed at the mart.
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18/12/21 - Farming Today This Week: Trade deals, labour shortages, the 'farmer's wife'
When is a farmer a 'farmer's wife'?
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17/12/21 Rows over farm workers, the ongoing pig cull, Christmas cheese
Flower farms added to seasonal worker visas, but recruiting in time will be challenging.
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16/12/21 30,000 pigs culled on farms, how to solve the labour problem, buffalo mozzarella
The crisis in the pig industry: we discuss what the government is and isn’t doing about it
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15/12/21 - Seasonal workers, Shropshire by-election, vegan cheese alternative
UK farmers are planning to grow less fruit and veg, because of a lack of labour.
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14/12/21 - NI Protocol, the Lump Sum Exit scheme, a Welsh cheese born in the Netherlands
Can GPS technology be used to smooth trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
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13/12/21 - The soil 'postcode lottery', post-Covid cheese sales
Could payments for improving your soil end up as a ‘postcode lottery’?
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11/12/21 Farming Today This Week: Trees felled by Storm Arwen, Defra Secretary on pig crisis, post-Brexit farm payments
The clear-up from Storm Arwen and Defra Secretary says he's done what was asked on pigs.
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10/12/21 - The trees felled by Storm Arwen, NI farm payments and Kelvin Fletcher goes farming
The millions of trees felled by Storm Arwen.
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09/12/21 - Fishing accidents, Scottish farm payments, flytipping
It’s been the worst year in a decade for deaths in the fishing industry.
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08/12/21 - Payments for access, changes to the planning rules and farmers with no electricity
Has the government changed its tune on paying farmers for public access?
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07/12/21 - Seasonal Workers Pilot, Welsh farm payments and dog attacks
Could the Seasonal Workers Pilot lead to a segregated work force?
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06/12/21 Defra Secretary on the pig crisis, the future of farm subsidies, tree beetle threatens spruce trees
The continuing crisis on pig farms - Defra Secretary tells us he has done what was asked.
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04/12/21 - Farming Today This Week: The Sustainable Farming Incentive and labour shortages
Charlotte Smith visits Thame Farmers Mart in Oxfordshire to test the mood among farmers.
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03/12/21 The Secretary of State for the Environment on the new post-Brexit farming support scheme
More on the new farm payments in England - but is it enough money to get farmers on board?
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02/12/21 New farm payment scheme revealed, insects for hen feed, Christmas turkey workers
The new post-Brexit support scheme announced today - will farmers like what they hear?
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01/12/21 Gene-edited farm animals, uncertainty over new subsidy payments, shortage of farm workers in Northern Ireland
Report calls for animal welfare to be at heart of any plans for gene-edited livestock.
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30/11/21 First beaver translocation in Scotland, Storm Arwen's impact on farms, Riverford veg workers
The first beavers have been relocated in Scotland since the Government changed its policy.