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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 23/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Badgers, beavers and hedgehogs; we discuss land use, bTB and the power of nature.

  2. 22/05/20 Gene editing post-Brexit, rewilding, yoghurt farm

    Calls to ditch the EU rules and allow genetically engineered crops after Brexit.

  3. 21/05/2020 - Pick for Britain, trees or food production and the power of nature.

    British Growers says farmers now have enough pickers to harvest fruit and veg this summer.

  4. 20/05/20 - Institutional land ownership, county farms, EFRA committee on food supply and antibiotics for mastitis

    How will our landscape change as new payments for farmers are introduced?

  5. 19/05/20 - The badger cull, micro-rewildling and frost-hit vineyards.

    The latest twists and turns on the badger cull.

  6. 18/05/20 Wool prices fall, drive through farmers' market, land use

    Warnings that the price farmers get for wool is to fall.

  7. 16/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    The Agriculture Bill and future trade.

  8. 15/05/20 Defeated amendment in the Agriculture Bill

    Can the government be trusted to protect food standards in trade deals?

  9. 14/05/20 - An interview with the Defra Secretary as the Agriculture Bill passes through Parliament

    Our first interview with Defra secretary George Eustice since lockdown began.

  10. 13/05/20 - Safety in meat processing, cheese exports, the Agriculture Bill and reopening the rural economy

    Are meat processing factories safe for workers?

  11. 12/05/20 - Ornamental plant growers, US trade and surplus potatoes.

    Garden centres are re-opening in Wales and England, but is it too late for plant growers?

  12. 11/05/20 UK US trade talks, wildfires, farms adapting to coronavirus

    The BBC's global trade correspondent Dharshini David gives us a trade talks update.

  13. 09/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Sybil Ruscoe catches up on a week of food and farming news.

  14. 08/05/20 Booming bitterns return to Morecambe Bay

    Caz Graham goes searching for the distinctive boom of the Morecambe Bay bittern.

  15. 07/05/20 Report on gamekeepers' motivations, dairy support announced

    Are gamekeepers under pressure to illegally shoot birds of prey that predate game birds?

  16. 06/05/20 - Small farms, market gardening and sheep shearers

    Are small farms the next big idea in farming?

  17. 05/05/20 - Food Strategy, selling milk locally and reducing milk production.

    How will the coronavirus impact the National Food Strategy?

  18. 04/05/20 Overweight horses, sand martins, lambing in Angus

    Welfare worries about the horses getting fat in lockdown.

  19. 02/05/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Will the coronavirus permanently change our relationship with food?

  20. 01/05/20 Dueting with nightingales, impacts of lockdown on dairy industry, farming families in lockdown

    The latest on dairy farmers struggling because of the coronavirus lockdown.

  21. 30/04/20 - Frozen peas, EU trade talks and home education

    We're buying more frozen peas - what does that mean for farmers?

  22. 29/04/20 - Flour surplus, selling fish locally, a postponed farm wedding and covid-eos

    There is a surplus of flour in the UK right now - so why is it so hard to find?

  23. 28/04/20 - Food supply chain during Covid-19, Kids on farms, Community pub in lockdown

    How is our food supply chain coping with Covid-19?

  24. 27/04/20 Lockdown farm education

    Why a time when we can’t get to the countryside is a good time to teach people about it.

  25. 25/04/20 - Farming Today This Week

    Who will pick our fruit and veg this year?

  26. 24/04/20 Beef prices in lockdown

    Farmers are being paid less than the cost of production for their beef during lockdown.

  27. 23/04/20 - British farm workers, run-off, vets and coronavirus

    Will farmers really give jobs to British fruit pickers?

  28. 22/04/20 - Flytipping, water usage, irrigation methods

    With recycling centres and local tips closed, flytipping is on the rise.

  29. 21/04/20 - Small scale cheese producers, dairy crisis, pub landlady and water contamination

    Good news in the face of Covid-19, with a campaign to support British cheese makers.

  30. 20/04/20 - Second-home owners claiming coronavirus grant, Water management, Lambing in Angus

    A call to stop second-home owners claiming a £10,000 coronavirus grant.

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