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Farming Today Episodes

  1. Flood prevention scheme, Livestock breeding, HS2 update

    How uphill schemes to 'slow the flow' are helping cut water bills.

  2. Shadow environment secretary, Ram sale, Scottish land reform

    Shadow environment secretary Rachael Maskell on Labour plans to help agricultural workers.

  3. Livestock breeding, White Park cattle, Terra Madre and willow coffins

    Charlotte Smith discovers how different farm livestock are bred commercially in the UK.

  4. Farming Today This Week: Educating the Next Generation

    Charlotte Smith meets some future farmers at an agricultural college near Gloucester.

  5. Neonicotinoids, hedgelaying and cider apprenticeships

    Do neonicotinoids kill bees? The hedge-laying season begins.

  6. Farm fires, Protein in wheat, Radio 4 Poetry Day

    There's been a rise in the cost of insurance claims for fires on farms.

  7. Asian hornet invasion, UN summit on antibiotic resistance, agricultural education

    Yet another threat to honey bees - an Asian hornet invasion.

  8. Late apple harvest, Cox's orange pippin revival, Agricultural education

    A wet spring has delayed the year's apple harvest.

  9. Does the new system of cattle grading at abbatoirs give a fair price for farmers? Plus fly tipping

    Charlotte Smith looks at criticism of a new cattle-grading system used by abbatoirs.

  10. Farming Today This Week: Wildlife and Farming

    How can modern farming methods be sympathetic to wildlife?

  11. The Milk Production Reduction Scheme, and leaving hedgerows uncut to help wildlife.

    The deadline for the EU scheme paying farmers to produce less milk is fast approaching.

  12. A 50 billion-pound takeover, ice cream made from buffalo milk and more on the State of Nature report

    The Monsanto-Bayer merger; a farm's efforts to help stone-curlews; buffalo milk ice cream.

  13. The State of Nature report, edible insects and Back British Farming Day

    The future of farming and conservation in light of the State of Nature report 2016.

  14. Farming and wildlife, ploughing championships and crofting in Scotland

    Yorkshire has been hosting the World Ploughing Championships.

  15. State of Nature report, Bees, Delays with farm payments

    The State of Nature 2016 report suggests intensive farming could be harming wildlife.

  16. Farming Today This Week: Seaweed

    Charlotte Smith explores the growing seaweed industry.

  17. Seaweed standards, Wild boar, Flood resilience review

    What role do rural areas play in the government's national flood resilience review?

  18. Dairy nutrition, PMQs, International tractor auction, E coli O157, Seaweed harvesting

    Farming Today asks if it is just the older generation now drinking milk.

  19. Seaweed traceability, Native crayfish, Biodiversity protection post-Brexit

    Should the UK keep the laws protecting different species post-Brexit?

  20. Badger cull, milk prices and seaweed foraging

    Bovine TB figures, price rises for dairy farmers and foraging for edible seaweed.

  21. Illegal hare-coursing, Farmers on Brexit, Seaweed

    The number of people caught hare-coursing in Lincolnshire has trebled over the past year.

  22. Farming Today This Week: Green Belt Debate

    Charlotte Smith hosts a discussion about the future of the green belt in the 21st century.

  23. Fish virus, Green belt, Tick survey

    Careless anglers could be spreading a killer virus among fish.

  24. Animal welfare in abattoirs, pet foxes and bovine TB in Wales

    Should abattoirs be made to install CCTV to prevent animal welfare abuse?

  25. A tale of two sheep farmers and the extension of the badger cull.

    A tale of two sheep farmers, green belt development and the extension of the badger cull.

  26. Greenbelt, Fois Gras and useful sheep

    Greenbelt and calls for a new cohesive housing strategy. Plus Fois Gras and useful sheep.

  27. Farming's Patron Saint

    Anna Hill goes on pilgrimage in Norfolk to trace the life of farming's patron saint.

  28. Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2016

    Caz Graham reports on the progress of harvest 2016.

  29. Wave energy, Plum harvesting and a traditional harvest supper

    Wave energy, plum harvesting and a traditional harvest supper.

  30. Cattle vaccine, Robotic cheddar making, Harvesting bracken for fuel

    The latest on possible alternatives to the badger cull.

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