Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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29/11/21 - Seasonal Worker Pilot, water sustainability and public sector food procurement
Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Nepal - three countries where people are keen to work on UK farms.
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27/11/21 Farming Today This Week: Croptec Show, wildlife crime, National Trust's ban on trail hunting
The National Trust bans trail hunting: the Countryside Alliance says it's disappointing.
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26/11/21 - Trail Hunting and the CropTec Show
Charlotte Smith is at the CropTec Show in Peterborough.
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25/11/21 - Farming for the Future Award winner, wildlife crime, bird flu lockdown and electrical weed control
Charlotte Smith hears about an increase in wildlife crime, but a decrease in convictions.
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24/11/21 - Pesticide regulation, breeding disease resistance in seeds, regenerative dairy farming
Is pesticide regulation failing to protect bees?
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23/11/21 - Lobster deaths, tackling flea beetle, the Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture and algae for animal feed
The Environment Agency investigates as thousands of lobsters and crabs are washed up dead.
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22/11/21 Food Wales Bill, pine trees disease, crop protection
The foundations are in place for new a Food Bill in Wales.
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20/11/21 - Farming Today This Week: Pig backlog, chicken cull, polluted oysters and deer management
The highs and lows of this week's farming news.
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19/11/2021 Calls for Wales to become a 'forest nation', tenant farmers demand longer tenancies, pasture-raised eggs
Will tenant farmers end up as collateral damage in the rush to plant trees?
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18/11/21 Polluted oysters, farmer loneliness, caged hens
Calls for a 'culture change' in farming to address loneliness and depression.
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17/11/21 - Pork staff shortages, lighting for fish, organic chicken and the CPTPP
Anna Hill finds out how switching the lights off could make farmed fish healthier.
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16/11/21 - Continued pig backlog, free range chickens and Scottish slurry spreading rules
Pig farmers consider aborting piglets as staff shortages at abattoirs continue to bite.
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15/11/21 - A silent cull of poultry, cold storage for pork and social crofting
A ‘silent cull’ of chickens is taking place on UK farms.
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13/11/21 Farming Today This Week: Methane and meat discussed at COP26, Chair of the new TAC, cultivation
At the end of the second week of the COP climate conference we talk methane and meat.
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12/11/21 - Native seaweed research, milk prices and the history of ploughing matches
Can native seaweed be used as a feed additive to reduce methane emissions from cattle?
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11/11/21 - Chair of the new TAC, blue carbon and organic no till
Charlotte Smith speaks to the Chair of the New Trade and Agriculture Commission.
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10/11/21 - Food labelling, earthworm abundance and COP26 sustainable farming pledge
Can the UK protect standards on imported food through better labelling?
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09/11/2021 - Welsh soya imports, reduced tillage and sand dune restoration
How commodity imports are impacting deforestation abroad.
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08/11/21 Climate change report says eat less meat; Cultivation.
A drastic change in diet needed to reduce global warming says new report.
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06/11/21 Farming Today This Week: COP26
Charlotte Smith hears what the latest announcements at COP26 mean for UK agriculture.
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05/11/21 Methane and net zero; Scottish susbsidy system; Carbon auditing; COP26
Reducing methane; New Scottish subsidy system; Carbon audits; COP26.
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04/11/21 Meat sent to EU for butchering, farming unions at COP26, bracken for fuel
An update on livestock and emissions and why British meat is being butchered abroad.
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03/11/21 Sustainable soya for animal feed, precision farming
We hear whether the supply chain can ensure eco-friendly soya for animal feed.
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02/11/21 Carbon trading, cow poo heating, calls for COP26 to help small scale farmers worldwide
Cow poo heated water, carbon trading and what COP26 could mean for farmers worldwide.
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01/11/21 Support for pig farmers, Social media campaign to buy British, COP26
Pig industry help. Sisters campaign to back British farmers. Farming and COP26.
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30/10/21 - Farming Today This Week: COP26, Grassland management, Sewage outflows
As COP26 kicks off, are UK farmers doing enough to tackle climate change?
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29/10/21 Farming and net zero. Grass. Anglo-French fishing row.
Can farmers tackle climate change fast enough? Grass. Anglo-French fishing row.
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28/10/21 "Haphazard" transition from CAP farm payments to ELMS, plans to tackle emissions from agriculture, the rural Budget
MPs warn the government’s "haphazard" transition is putting some English farms at risk.
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Changes to rules on sewage discharge, grassland fungi, inflation for agriculture
The Government will tighten up rules on water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers.
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26/10/21 - Staff shortages, meeting Romanian workers and herbal leys
Staff shortages in the food supply chain are 'unprecedented, bleak and on-going'.