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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 08/11/19: General Election priorities, Protecting birds of prey, Mushroom safari

    Charlotte Smith visits a farmers' market to ask what people want from the General Election

  2. 07/11/19 Designer cows, Blue fin tuna, Truffle-hunting

    Advances in genetics are transforming the way dairy farmers run their businesses.

  3. 06/11/19 Election campaign day zero, large scale mushroom farm, river restoration

    As the election campaign begins, we consult an expert panel to keep us up to date.

  4. 05/11/19 Price of Milk, Mushrooms, Devil's Pulpit

    Many of you tell us you're willing to pay more for your milk.

  5. 04/11/19 Scottish milk, mushrooms

    Dairy farmers in Scotland lose their milk contracts, closure of cheese plant, mushrooms.

  6. 02/11/19 Farming Today This Week: Root veg

    Charlotte Smith visits a farm in Wiltshire to talk all things root vegetable.

  7. 01/11/19 Floods, dung beetles and root veg

    Flooding past, present and future; farming for beetles; soils for root vegetables.

  8. 31/10/19: Farming unions call for government intervention on beef prices

    Charlotte Smith asks Jimmy Ireland why he wants government help in the beef market.

  9. 30/10/19 Game shoots, farm waste, backdated subsidies for Scottish farms

    Your responses to the RSPB's review into game shooting.

  10. 29/10/19: RSPB reviews its position on game shooting, 5g drones, heritage potatoes

    The RSPB could start campaigning against game shoots, for the first time.

  11. 28/10/19: What young people think about their food, the tupping point, root veg

    Anna Jones asks what a new survey tells us about attitudes towards food and farming.

  12. 26/10/19 Farming Today This Week: Tree Fruits

    Charlotte Smith discusses the changing face of the tree fruits industry.

  13. 25/10/19: Handsworth Grammar School does Farming Today, Invasive species, Cider apples

    Mary Creagh tells Charlotte Smith what the government must do to tackle invasive species.

  14. 24/10/19: The Brexit deal and fishing, Maize and cover crops, Apple agroforestry

    Richard Barnes tells Caz Graham how the Brexit deal might help Northern Ireland fishermen.

  15. 23/10/19 Illegally imported antibiotics, plums, organic research

    Illegal antibiotics destined for a poultry farm are seized at an airport.

  16. 22/10/19 Milk processor in administration, Johnson's deal, Apples and pears

    Farmers want Sainsbury's to pay them as a processor goes into administration.

  17. 21/10/19 Future of weed control; electric weeder; pink apples

    Challenges of weed control; testing out an electric weeder; the first British pink apples.

  18. Farming Today This Week: Rural services (in a pub)

    Charlotte Smith finds out how a pub in Wiltshire serves as a community hub.

  19. 18/10/19 Brexit deal; Brexit Party conference; Archbishop and community cafe; rural transport

    Brexit deal and food and farming; Brexit party conference; farmers' cafe; rural transport.

  20. 17/10/19: Falling demand for beef, SNP rural policy, Rural schools

    Anna Hill asks Professor David Hughes why demand for beef is falling in the UK.

  21. 16/10/19 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit and rural banks

    Charlotte Smith visits the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London.

  22. 15/10/19: Queen's speech, No-deal Brexit and tariffs, Rural services overview

    Anna Hill and Heather Simons reflect on the newly-introduced Environment Bill.

  23. 14/10/19: New report on the badger cull, rural mobile signal

    Charlotte Smith asks Professor Christl Donnelly about her new report into the badger cull.

  24. 12/10/19 Farming Today This Week: Wine

    Charlotte Smith visits an East Sussex vineyard for a rather wet grape harvest.

  25. 11/10/19: Tony Juniper on the badger cull, New Scientist Live and farming, Elderflower wine

    Charlotte Smith asks chair of Natural England Tony Juniper about the badger cull.

  26. 10/10/19: Inshore fisheries and Brexit, Tony Juniper interview part 1, English wine

    The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

  27. 09/10/19 Payment by results for farmers, badger behaviour in cull areas, fortified wine

    We hear why paying for results is getting farmers on board with wildlife.

  28. 08/10/19 Modern slavery, oil seed rape feed, grape wine harvest

    A new report says farming companies' modern slavery statements are not up to scratch.

  29. 7/10/19: UK Wine, Dartmoor Ponies, Farming Protestors

    A new variety of grape is set to transform the UK wine industry according to scientists.

  30. Four Weeks Until Brexit

    Charlotte Smith is joined by an export panel to discuss where we are with four weeks to go

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