Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Rural Broadband; Rural Payments Agency; Fishing and the EU
A look at slow broadband speeds in rural areas and criticism of the Rural Payments Agency.
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Virtual Reality Farming, European Union, Brussels
The virtual reality film claiming to show the reality of pig farming.
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Farming Today This Week: Pest Control and Herbicides
Are farmers managing to protect their crops from pests, while caring for the countryside?
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Milk prices, Dairy conference, Genetically modified insects, Virtual reality farming
The price farmers receive for milk has fallen once again.
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Glyphosate on farms, pig antibiotics and Northern Ireland's vegetable growers
Glyphosate use on farms, pig antibiotics and Northern Ireland's vegetable growers.
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Slug Invasion, CAP Deadline Extension, Autism Farm School, Pests
Presented by Anna Hill. Farmers are expecting a slug invasion.
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Pest control, farm incomes, drones and bison
Including investigation of pest control, drones, falling farm incomes and farming bison.
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Beatrix Potter in the Lake District
Celebrating the farming legacy of Beatrix Potter in the Lake District.
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Farming Today This Week: The Future of Food
Charlotte Smith asks what farms and food production will look like in the years to come.
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Food and Farming Awards, Farm borrowing, Neonicotinoids, Share farming
The Food and Farming Awards, farm borrowing, neonicotinoids and share farming.
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Transatlantic Trade Deal Concerns
Will a transatlantic trade deal with America disadvantage UK farmers?
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Report on agricultural air pollution, Pero the sheepdog, BBC Food and Farming Awards finalist Our Cow Molly, Hops as garnish
An EFRA committee report says farming must do more to prevent damaging gas emissions.
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Sexing chicks before they hatch, BBC Food & Farming Awards finalist McDonald's, Salmon conservation
Scientists are working on new technology to detect the sex of chicks before they hatch.
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Flood Relief Delays in Cumbria, Mental Health, Food and Farming Awards
Cumbrian farmers report problems applying for much needed flood relief grants.
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Farming Today This Week: Poultry industry
Broadcasting from a brand new chicken farm to look at the UK poultry industry.
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Police and crime commissioners elections, Campylobacter in poultry, Rural Payments Agency and subsidies and dairy
Rural issues affecting the election of police and crime commissioners.
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European Subsidies Update
English farmers are to be given bridging payments to tide them over.
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NFU position on Brexit
The NFU has announced its support for staying in the EU and the president explains why.
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NFU position on Brexit
A new milk ad is getting dairy farmers talking. Plus election issues in rural Wales.
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NFU views on Brexit, poultry industry, traditional grasses
A look at the choices the NFU must make in deciding its position on the EU referendum.
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Farming Today This Week: Agricultural Research
A look at some of the innovative research happening in the agricultural sector.
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International and UK dairy market, Tenant farm payments, Bees and other pollinators
The international dairy market is in crisis, and the latest research on bees.
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Glyphosate EU vote, Children learn farming, Rust research
MEPs resist a ban, but back calls for restrictions on the use of weedkiller glyphosate.
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Rural housing, New breed of sheep, Hydrogen-powered farmer
The campaign to save affordable housing in the British countryside.
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Insect farming, Sprayer research, Wonky vegetables
Farming Today looks at why farmers could be turning to insect production.
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The Government U-turn on Animal Wwelfare
Animal welfare changes, the Norfolk herring season and modern agricultural research.
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Farming Today This Week: Rural Services
A look at rural services under pressure, and the people trying to save them.
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Lynx for the British Countryside?
Cattle at agricultural shows, lynx reintroduction, care farms and rural service cuts.
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World agriculture ministers to meet
World agriculture ministers meet in Paris to discuss how to feed the planet.
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New rules on micro-chipping dogs
All dogs in England, Scotland and Wales must be micro-chipped.