Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Brexit: The Transition
Anna Hill and guests discuss what the next 11 months mean for food, farming and fishing.
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31/01/20 Environment Bill, Cheesemakers and Brexit, US Agriculture Secretary, Sustainable scallops.
Today the UK leaves the EU. We ask how environmental regulation will work post-Brexit.
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30/01/20 Raptor persecution and the approach of Brexit day
Can education help solve the problem of raptor persecution?
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29/01/20 Campaign to tighten law on routine use of farm antibiotics, new Fisheries Bill, game bird microwave meals
Calls for new legislation to limit the use of antibiotics in meat production in the UK.
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28/01/20: Brexit. Sheep rustling, Lambing
With three days to go until Brexit, Anna Hill asks what farmers are expecting.
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27/01/20 - Brexit transition, FarmStart and the new Northern Ireland Farming Minister
The UK leaves the EU at the end of the week... but what will change?
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Farming Today This Week: Sugar
Anna Hill finds out about sugar production on British farms.
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24/01/20: Sugar and health, calf-at-foot investment, quantifying natural capital
Perspectives on sugar and public health - and a new way to measure natural capital.
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23/01/20: Farming and climate change
A report out today from the Committee on Climate Change says farming must change.
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22/01/20 Thousands of salmon escape from offshore farm, veterans for agriculture, sugar beet logistics
We hear what the consequences are for wild salmon stocks when farmed salmon escape.
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21/01/20 Post-Brexit ban on chlorine-washed chicken, Welsh agriculture bill, ropeless lobster pots, fodder beet
Why the UK could find it hard to ban chlorine-washed chicken and hormone beet post-Brexit.
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20/01/20: Devolved farming, Sugar beet, Weather
Charlotte Smith asks what's in store for farmers in the devolved nations after Brexit.
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Pig Farming in the UK
Charlotte Smith visits a pig farm in Devon.
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17/01/20: Future of farming after the Agriculture Bill; Protein for pigs
What is the future for farming and for Defra in the light of the new Agriculture Bill?
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16/01/20 - The new Agriculture Bill, pig welfare and tail docking
The Agriculture Bill is back, with a few changes.
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15/01/20 - High welfare pig farrowing pens, the return of Stormont, banning the badger cull and tree planting
Pig farrowing crates are controversial - we find out about a new high welfare design.
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14/01/20 Australian bushfires, pork labelling
We hear whether the Australian bushfires will have an impact on global agricultural trade.
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13/01/20: Pig sector, Lambing in January, American trade tariffs
Trade tariffs are affecting exporters of some food products, including cheese and whisky.
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Highlights from the Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith brings you some of the best bits from the two Oxford Farming Conferences.
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10/01/20: Day 3 at the Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith reports from both the farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.
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09/01/20: Day 2 at the Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith hears about the future of trade and the new plan for a food strategy.
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08/01/2020 - Day 1 at the Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith is at the Oxford Farming Conference.
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07/01/20: Farming conferences in Oxford, Tenant farmers, Maximum crop yields.
Charlotte Smith hears about the two farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.
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06/01/20 - Mobile abattoirs, farm investment and LAMMA 2020.
Can mobile abattoirs improve animal welfare?
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04/01/20 Farming Today This Week: Minette Batters reflects on 2019
The president of the National Farmers' Union looks back on a tumultuous farming year.
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03/01/20 - The value of auction marts, the cost of black grass and innovative hydro-power.
How valuable are auction marts to the rural community - new research asks the question.
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Island Abattoir
What does the future hold for small-scale abattoirs?
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National Pig Centre
Charlotte Smith visits the new National Pig Centre.
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Inspiring The Archers
Charlotte Smith visits the real-life farms that help inspire The Archers.
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Hare Coursing
Anna Hill investigates the illegal sport of hare coursing.