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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 20/06/20 Farming Today This Week: Trade talks, NFU petition, Rural racism, Flowers

    How welcome are Black or Asian families in rural Britain?

  2. 19/06/20 - Live exports in Scotland, Unlicensed killing of mountain hares, Orchids, Biopesticides

    A legal challenge is being launched over the live export of calves from Scotland.

  3. 18/06/20 - Illegal gang masters, Village halls, Helpline for farmers, Bees for flowers

    With demand for fruit and veg pickers growing there is a greater risk of exploitation.

  4. 17/06/20: Minette Batters, Welsh tourism, Chamomile

    Minette Batters and Anna Hill discuss UK trade, the Agriculture Bill and food standards.

  5. 16/06/20 - Neonicotinoids in salmon farming, Online flower sales, Shearing alpacas

    A new process to remove sea-lice from farmed salmon using Neonicotinoids has been trialled

  6. 15/06/20 Tree planting targets missed, Scottish offshore wind farms, flowers

    Across the UK the targets for the number of trees to be planted last year were missed.

  7. 13/06/20 - BAME representation in farming, cereals, and Peter Crouch (sort of)

    Dee Woods and Sinead Fenton talk about being people of colour working in agriculture.

  8. 12/06/20 Scottish rural tourism re-opening, robotics on farms, organic no till, Kitemark for food

    Rural tourism businesses in Scotland are preparing to re-open on the 15th of July.

  9. 11/06/20: Cereals goes virtual, The Lords debate the Agriculture Bill

    Charlotte Smith reports on the twists and turns of the Agriculture Bill.

  10. 10/06/20: Peatland carbon sequestration, Rural primary school, Pesticide reduction in arable

    A new report says restoring peatlands could compensate for carbon emissions in farming.

  11. 09/06/20: Maize trials, racism in rural industries, pesticides and trade deals

    Concerns have been raised about how trade deals might change pesticide use in the UK.

  12. 08/06/2020 Small Abattoirs - Protected Marine Areas - Cereals

    Parts of the UK coastal waters should be designated as Highly Protected Marine Areas.

  13. 06/06/20 Dual tariffs for chlorinated chicken imports, pressures on the countryside as lockdown eases, beavers

    Reaction to reports that chlorinated US chicken could be allowed with tariffs imposed.

  14. 05/06/20 Beaver shooting; wool prices; weather extremes and crops; Desert Island Disc choice

    Beaver shooting controversy; plummeting wool prices; crops affected by weather extremes.

  15. 04/06/20 Green recovery after Covid19; blackcurrants; wildflower meadow restoration; antibiotics

    Environment after lockdown; breeding blackcurrants; restoring meadows; antibiotics on farm

  16. 03/06/20 Scottish fishing & Brexit talks; selling milk direct; forestry report; crops for birds

    Brexit fishing talks & Scotland; selling milk direct; future forestry; wildlife crops.

  17. 02/06/20 Pressures on the countryside as lockdown eases, new Red Tractor labels and conservation grazing

    Rural areas overwhelmed as C19 restrictions lifted; Red Tractor scheme extended.

  18. 01/06/20 - Fishing negotiations, farmers called John and wildlife on farms

    This week's Brexit talks will focus on fishing - but will they get anywhere?

  19. 30/05/20 Farming Today This Week

    Our 10th lockdown Saturday programme on drought and asparagus going to seed.

  20. 29/05/20 - Drought, agricultural show cancellations, Solar park and goat meat

    The National Drought Group is meeting after one of the driest Mays on record.

  21. 28/05/20 - Re-opening rural communities, AI in goats and free range eggs.

    We discuss how best to ease lockdown for rural communities.

  22. 27/05/20 Solar farm in Kent, Asparagus picking is a family affair, Clotted cream from goat's milk

    Anna Hill speaks to the company behind the proposed largest solar farm in the country.

  23. 26/05/20 Seasonal farm workers exempt from quarantine rules, closure of agriculture college in Cumbria

    More farm workers expected to come to the UK following relaxation of quarantine rules.

  24. 25/05/20 Crofting

    A look at the crofting way of life in the islands of Lewis and Harris.

  25. 23/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Badgers, beavers and hedgehogs; we discuss land use, bTB and the power of nature.

  26. 22/05/20 Gene editing post-Brexit, rewilding, yoghurt farm

    Calls to ditch the EU rules and allow genetically engineered crops after Brexit.

  27. 21/05/2020 - Pick for Britain, trees or food production and the power of nature.

    British Growers says farmers now have enough pickers to harvest fruit and veg this summer.

  28. 20/05/20 - Institutional land ownership, county farms, EFRA committee on food supply and antibiotics for mastitis

    How will our landscape change as new payments for farmers are introduced?

  29. 19/05/20 - The badger cull, micro-rewildling and frost-hit vineyards.

    The latest twists and turns on the badger cull.

  30. 18/05/20 Wool prices fall, drive through farmers' market, land use

    Warnings that the price farmers get for wool is to fall.

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