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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 11/04/20 - Farming Today This Week

    How rural communities and businesses are coping with the coronavirus.

  2. 10/04/20 Voluntary food effort in East Yorkshire

    Chef and reporter Gerard Baker is part of a voluntary food effort in East Yorkshire.

  3. 09/04/20 Calls for changes to the Agriculture Bill in the light of coronavirus

    Should the Agriculture Bill be refocused with more attention on food security?

  4. Daffodil growers struggling with coronavirus restrictions

    Scottish daffodils left unpicked. Growers are now concerned about their bulb exports.

  5. 07/04/20 Dairy farmers are having to dump their milk due to coronavirus drop in demand

    We hear from a dairy farmer who has had to pour 3,000 litres of milk in his slurry tank.

  6. 06/04/20 - Plant nurseries, rural tourism and agricultural shows

    Garden centres are closed and wholesale nurseries can’t sell their plants.

  7. Farming Today This Week

    Sybil Ruscoe rounds up a week of programmes focussing on trees and coronavirus.

  8. 03/04/20: Spring drilling, Growing demand for veg boxes, Ash dieback

    Is it worth drilling crops this spring?

  9. 02/04/20 Abattoirs and coronavirus, Commerical forestry, Audio diary from Archdeacon of Cardigan

    Sybil Ruscoe finds out what the coronavirus outbreak means for the supply of meat.

  10. 01/04/20 Social distancing in horticulture, Coronavirus lockdown on a goat farm, Jobs in arboriculture

    Anna Hill finds out about new measures to keep fruit pickers safe from coronavirus.

  11. 31/03/20 Nationwide scheme to recruit British crop pickers

    Talks with the DEFRA secretary on a nationwide scheme to recruit agricultural workers.

  12. 30/03/20 For the love of trees; Newmarket races and coronavirus; Rural tourism in Angus

    Charlotte Smith speaks to Darren Moorcroft from The Woodland Trust about their work.

  13. Farming Today This Week

    How is coronavirus impacting rural lives and businesses?

  14. 27/03/20 Farmers markets and coronavirus; A veg grower's life under lockdown; Disease in deer.

    To open or close? The dilemma facing farmers' markets; a veg grower's audio diary; deer.

  15. 26/03/20 - Walking on farmland during lockdown, deer stalking and the sound of silence...

    Farmers raise concerns about people using public footpaths through farm yards.

  16. 25/03/20 - Food chain flexibility during COVID-19, farming deer

    How flexible can our food supply chain be in the face of COVID-19.

  17. Impact of coronavirus on the fishing industry

    We hear about the effect the Covid-19 crisis is having on the fishing industry.

  18. 23/03/20 Milk supplies and coronavirus; farm tourism and Covid19; conserving Shire horses.

    How Covid19's affecting milk supplies and farm tourism in Scotland. Reviving Shire horses.

  19. 21/03/20 - Farming Today This Week

    How is the rural economy coping with coronavirus?

  20. 20/03/20 Coronavirus and agricultural labour; Veg box demand; Payment for soil health.

    Agricultural worker shortage due to Covid-19; Veg box increase; Paying for healthy soil

  21. 19/03/2020 - Livestock markets and coronavirus; Environmental Land Management Schemes; Sounds of the countryside

    Covid-19 and livestock markets; natural flood management; and the new Agriculture Bill.

  22. 18/03/2020 - Rural businesses adapt to the coronavirus and the future of ELMS

    How are rural businesses adapting in the face of the coronavirus?

  23. Calls to ban caged farm animals, consumer trends, ELMS

    Should all forms of caging be banned in farming? We hear a vet's opinion.

  24. 16/03/20 Coronavirus compensation for the self-employed in Ireland; the new Agriculture Bill; breeding oysters

    The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

  25. Farming Today This Week

    Brown or white eggs, lambing time, farm bird survey.

  26. 13/03/20 Coronavirus and food supplies; Welsh national forest; Environmental impact of sheep

    We find out about emergency plans for food supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.

  27. 12/03/20 - The Budget, rare breed lamb and import food standards

    What's the fall out from the Budget for farmers?

  28. 11/03/20 - Wet weather, coronavirus and agricultural commodities, and lambing labour

    After months of intermittent rain, we catch up with progress in the fields.

  29. 10/03/2020

    The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

  30. 09/03/20 - The Northern Ireland Protocol, thermal cameras for spotting birds and lambing starts

    What could the Northern Ireland Protocol mean for farming and fishing?

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