Farming Today Episodes Episode guide

Farming in the Cradle of Christianity

What's it like farming on the Isle of Iona, which gets more than 100,000 visitors a year?
Plastic Forests

Is it time to rethink the role of single-use plastic guards in tree planting?
Farming the Lakes

Can traditional farming survive in the Lake District?
Mistletoe

Emma Campbell visits a farm preparing to take a crop of mistletoe to auction.
The Young Tenant Farmer

Meet Joe Rabicano - an 18-year-old who has just been awarded a council farm tenancy.
23/12/19: Livestock market carols, Sheep as pest control.

A livestock market near Dundee turns festive to help combat rural isolation.
Data Farming

Data is already changing the way we farm...but what does the future hold?
20/12/19: Licensing grouse moors; Using data to kill weeds, Cob nuts

Charlotte Smith asks what the Werritty report means for the management of grouse moors.
19/12/19: Rural mobile phone signal, Broiler sensors, Reindeer, Fish quotas.

A Norfolk farmer describes how the lack of mobile phone signal could have cost his life.
18/12/19 New study on bovine TB, Digital platform for farm data, Turkey farm

Defra has no immediate plans to change advice for farmers on TB following a new report.
17/12/19: Modern slavery; Data in agriculture; Xmas tree farm; Post-election lobbying

Anna Hill finds out how anglers are helping to combat slavery and people trafficking.
16/12/19: Election results and farming

Charlotte Smith asks what the election result will mean for farming and the environment.
This Year's Weather

After a year of extreme weather, how are farmers faring?
12/12/19: Bird flu, Dark sky park, Forest bathing, Forage Aid

A new outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk has led to 27,000 chickens being culled.
11/12/19 Green lanes, insect farms, wet weather

We hear the dispute over access in the Lake District.
10/12/19 New report finds shoppers don't believe the labelling on their food

Report shows a quarter of people surveyed don't trust organic certification.
09/12/19: Wet weather farming, Oats, Inclusivity in the countryside

James Peck tells Charlotte Smith about the impact the wet weather is having on farmers.
Rural Manifestos

Our expert panel interrogate the manifestos from the major political parties.
06/12/19: Bovine TB, Northern Ireland manifestos, Fishing manifestos

Dr Iain McGill tells Charlotte Smith why culling badgers is not controlling Bovine TB.
05/12/19 Farmers at climate change summit, Lib Dem and Brexit Party manifestos

The NFU beef farmer at UN summit - COP 25, manifestos from the Lib Dems and Brexit Party.
04/12/19 Tree planting, SNP and Plaid Cymru election manifestos, weather delays crops

Tree planting pledges from all parties. Will farmers have to give up their land?
03/12/19 Labour and Green Party manifestos, invasive crayfish

Today we hear from Labour and the Green party on their rural policies.
02/12/19: Conservative farming manifesto; Scottish women in agriculture; Marina Gibson, fishing influencer

A new report from the Scottish government says change is needed to help women in farming.
Farming Today This Week: Energy

Charlotte Smith finds out about the production of energy on farms.
29/11/19 Trade talks and food and farming, rural voters in Scotland, anaerobic digestion plant

Agri-food in leaked US trade talk papers; rural voters in Dumfries; energy from muck
28/11/19: Bovine TB vaccine; Welsh election opinions; Solar farms

Could a new vaccine help control TB in cattle? Charlotte Smith finds out.
27/11/19 Election issues for Northern Irish farmers, straw-power, weevil research

We hear what farming issues are being discussed in Northern Ireland.
26/11/19 Election special on immigration

Our election special on immigration comes from Boston in Lincolnshire.
25/11/19: Producing energy on farm, The farm counting its carbon, Scottish milk

Charlotte Smith speaks to Peter Tyldesley from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Farming Today This Week

Charlotte Smith is on a farm in Hertfordshire to talk about beef production.