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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 07/06/21 Testing environmental schemes; Wild cats; Pigs

    Hill farmers test plans for new environmental schemes, wild cat comeback, pig industry.

  2. 05/06/21 - Farming Today This Week: Carbon tax, HS2 Ltd, a green recovery and rural tourism

    Should there be a carbon tax on meat?

  3. 04/06/21 Recovery through nature; Farm safety; Rural Tourism

    Nature helping us recover after Covid; psychology of farm safety; rural tourism.

  4. 03/06/21 - Old farming wisdom, topsy-turvy weather, making nature accessible and a farm safari

    How farming is using old knowledge of the land teamed up with the latest tech and science.

  5. 02/06/21 - A carbon tax on meat, landslides in Wales and camping on the farm

    What would a carbon tax mean for agriculture?

  6. 01/06/21 Ombudsman finds HS2 'dishonest', Open Farm Sunday, Britain's farm toys

    We hear one farmer’s battle with HS2 high-speed rail.

  7. 31/05/21 Celebrating farming broadcaster Alan Stennett

    We celebrate a man who has given a lifetime to the farming community and the BBC.

  8. 29/05/21 - Farming Today This Week: Trade deals, flower power and neglected crofts

    The government is consulting on new trade deals - what will it mean for farmers?

  9. 28/05/21 Future of badger culls, free trade agreements, local food producers

    Badger culls in England will be phased out, but may be allowed in certain situations.

  10. 27/05/21 - New international trade deals, shopping local and meat processing staff

    The government has launched consultations on new trade deals with Canada and Mexico.

  11. 26/05/21 - An agroecological future, the Environment Bill returns, fighting bumblebee disease and PYO fruit and veg

    Could agroecology fight climate change, increase biodiversity and improve human health?

  12. 25/05/21 - Paying farmers to retire, re-introducing beavers and farm shops in lockdown

    Paying farmers to retire: it may sound new but the EU's version didn’t work.

  13. 24/05/21 - The NI Protocol, gaps in hedgrows and buying local food

    Problems with the NI protocol.

  14. 22/05/21 Farming Today This Week: Australia tariff-free trade deal, peat action plan, access to the countryside

    Farmers talk of a "betrayal" by the government on a tariff-free trade deal with Australia.

  15. 21/05/21 - The challenges of autonomous robots, Nigel Owens takes on a farm and managing people in nature

    The social, legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of robots on the farm.

  16. 20/05/21 - Australian trade deal, dogs disturbing nesting birds and bee corridors

    Are we about to sign a no-tariff trade deal with Australia?

  17. 19/05/21 - Lowland peat re-wetting, phasing out peat for horticulture and land rights.

    Can we grow food in re-wetted lowland peat?

  18. 18/05/21 - Visitors to the countryside, seasonal workers and measuring how happy a cow is

    How are farmers coping with the pressure of more visitors to beauty spots?

  19. 17/05/21 Seasonal workers, access to national parks, counting shad

    How the new immigration policy could leave Britain's food supply-chain at risk.

  20. 15/05/21 - Farming Today This Week: Action Plan for Animal Welfare. ELMS trials, tackling rural loneliness

    We scrutinise the government's new "Action Plan for Animal Welfare".

  21. 14/05/21 Tackling rural isolation, tax relief for on farm research, vertical farming, flytipping

    North Yorkshire young farmers have been drafted in to help tackle rural loneliness.

  22. 13/05/21 - ELMS trial, a "new deal" for farming and a smart village

    We visit an ELMS trial looking at what 'public goods' are worth.

  23. 12/05/21 - Government plans for Animal Welfare, AHDB Strategic Farms, and 'nature based solutions'.

    The government is launching a new action plan for animal welfare.

  24. 11/05/21 Northern Ireland climate bill; Hedgerows; Drought resistant forage

    Politicians in Northern Ireland debate climate bill; Hedgerows; Field trials of forage.

  25. 10/05/21 - Virtual health checks, livestock marts reopening and on-farm trials

    Livestock markets are beginning to cautiously open up after lockdown.

  26. 08/05/21 Farming Today This Week

    The UK potato mountain, the EU’s latest move on gene editing, and a weeding robot.

  27. 07/05/21 - Potato mountains, vintage farm machinery and farming emus

    Why more than 20% of last year’s potato crop is still in storage on farms.

  28. 06/05/21 - Deer culling in lockdown, gene editing in the EU and DIY farm machinery

    What next for the UK deer population after culling was hit by lockdown?

  29. 05/05/21 - Farm jobs for the unemployed, a green recovery and robot tractors

    We get more details about a scheme to match up unemployed people with jobs on farms.

  30. 04/05/21 Future farm machinery, robotic weeder, food innovation award

    The robotic weeder who may be destined to be at the top of every farmer’s Christmas list.

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