Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Princess Anne on food and farming post-Brexit
The Princess Royal outlines her vision for the rural economy post-Brexit.
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Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin on UK food production post-Brexit
Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin on food and drink production post-Brexit.
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Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit on a post-Brexit agricultural landscape
Eden Project founder Sir Tim Smit calls for a revolution in attitudes to producing food.
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Germaine Greer on post-Brexit agriculture
Author Germaine Greer talks wildlife and habitat protection in a post-Brexit landscape.
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Farming Today This Week: The war on plant pests and diseases
Sybil Ruscoe visits Pershore College to see their work to combat pests and diseases.
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Equine economy, dog poo bags, biosecurity post Brexit
The value of the equine economy, dog poo and biosecurity after Brexit.
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Dog poo, biorational pesticides, hedgerow conservation, Scottish peatland
What to do with dog poo?
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Brexit Bill, Natural flood management, Potato pests
Agriculture may need its own Brexit bill to be passed by 2020, but is Defra up to it?
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Farming and the countryside after Brexit, Garden centres, the Norfolk Broads
Anna Hill asks if Brexit is a chance to shake up the way rural Britain is run.
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Jam and chutney, Cattle fraud, Plant pests and diseases
We hear how food waste is turned into chutney and we begin a week looking at plant pests.
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Farming and Pollution
What are the links between farming and pollution? Charlotte Smith investigates.
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Environment Agency pollution investigations, history of ploughing, Brexit and Ireland
The Angling Trust says Environment Agency cuts mean delays in pollution prosecutions.
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UN report on pesticides, Hare coursing in Scotland, Budget and rural pubs
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Charlotte Smith.
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Fishing accidents and drug use, Farm pollution and slurry, International Womens' Day
Evidence of fishermen taking drugs while working out at sea, putting their lives at risk.
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British sugar production, free range milk and paying for pollution.
Should British supermarkets stock UK grown sugar to give consumers a choice?
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Deer poaching, Fairtrade and Brexit, Agricultural pollution
The impact of Brexit on the poorest countries; deer poaching; and agricultural pollution.
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Farming Careers
Sybil Ruscoe talks farming careers to students at the Royal Agricultural University.
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Fly-tipping, Scottish agriculture post-Brexit, Young farming entrepreneurs
Fly-tipping on private land in the countryside is costing millions of pounds.
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Careers for EU workers in UK farming, Selling farm produce to Millennials, The Postman Poet
Making a career in British farming: two EU migrant workers discuss their paths.
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Defra cuts, bird flu, Scottish moorland, farming careers
Presented by Anna Hill. Defra faces more responsibilities and even larger cuts.
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Change to bird flu restrictions, fall in the price of farm land, soil as a carbon store
Presented by Anna Hill. New avian flu rules have been brought in overnight.
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Career options for new entrants to UK farming, Contraception for squirrels
Charlotte Smith hears about the career options for new entrants to the farming industry.
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Animal welfare, Bristol veterinary school, Inside an abattoir, Kosher and halal rules for animal slaughter
Animal welfare from the University of Bristol Vet School Farm.
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German government meat ban, US animal welfare standards, New broccoli research
Why a meat-free diet is becoming a controversial issue in the German elections.
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Halal and stunning livestock; Green Party vision for farming post-Brexit; Business Rates
Charlotte Smith asks whether the killing of animals without stunning can be humane.
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NFU Conference 2017
Farming Today reports from the first NFU Conference since the Brexit vote.
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Council Tenant Farm sell-off, annual organic report & animal welfare in the slaughterhouse
Council tenant farm sell-off, annual organic report, animal welfare in the slaughterhouse.
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UK sugar beet industry and farm animal welfare
The UK sugar beet industry predicts a bumper year.
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Farming Today This Week - Care in the countryside
Do people in rural areas get poorer care than those in urban Britain?
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Irish police farm raid, Archers symposium, James Herriot in Moscow and retired farmers
Irish police farm raid, an Archers symposium, James Herriot in Moscow and retired farmers.