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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 28/03/23 Environmental reporting; listeria outbreak; agriplastic pollution; recycling farm plastics.

    Environmental reporting; listeria; agricultural plastic pollution; recycling farm plastic.

  2. 27/03/23 - Dartmoor management, farm waste and ammonia emissions

    MPs call for an independent process to balance farming and conservation on Dartmoor.

  3. 25/03/23 Farming Today This Week: cost of producing crab; Pacific oysters; prawn deaths; Precision Breeding Act; Muirburn.

    Cost of producing crab; Pacific oysters; prawn deaths; Precision Breeding Act; Muirburn.

  4. 24/03/23 - Pacific oysters, grouse moor management and precision breeding

    Oyster farms are facing closure, and Scottish grouse moors may have to be licenced.

  5. 23/03/23 - Crab sales, Spanish drought and horticulturists of the future

    The rising costs of selling shellfish.

  6. 22/03/23 Calls for crab quotas; soft shell crabs; oat processing plant.

    Calls to protect crab populations; Soft shell crabs in Northern Ireland; New oat factory.

  7. 21/03/23 Henry Dimbleby stands down from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

    Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby resigns from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

  8. 20/03/23 Calls to re-open inquiry into shellfish deaths; shellfish industry; seasonal workers

    Calls to re-open shellfish inquiry; shellfish industry; new seasonal worker task force.

  9. 18/03/23 Farming Today This Week: rows over sheep; Dutch farmers winning elections; exploited migrant workers.

    The tensions between where sheep are, should be, should not be and who decides.

  10. 17/03/23 Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to be drastically reduced: Private finance carbon capture

    Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to reduce dramatically. Private finance and carbon capture.

  11. 16/03/23 Budget response: from a farming and environmental perspective; Plant Atlas.

    What's in the budget for farming and the environment? Plant Atlas and biodiversity loss.

  12. 15/03/23 Rural poverty; biodiversity credits; tree disease

    Rural poverty, farmers selling bio-diversity credits, and disease destroying larch trees.

  13. 14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

    Nepalese workers exploited by employment agency. Sea eagle re-introduction. New wetlands.

  14. 13/03/23 Fruit growers giving up on apples, the Precision Breeding Act, Wild Isles.

    Why apple growers are digging up their orchards.

  15. 11/03/2023 Farming Today This Week: food fraud, imported beef sold as British; upland farm incomes; drought

    Imported beef sold as British; hill farm incomes fall, but minister defends ELMS; drought.

  16. 10/03/2023 Food fraud: imported beef sold as British

    Imported beef sold as British: 10 years after horsegate we ask how this can happen.

  17. 09/03/2023 Anger at drop in income for hill farmers, dairy welfare tech, new register for backyard hens

    Warnings that the government's green approach to hill farming will backfire.

  18. 08/08/2023 - Poultry energy costs; drought; dairy farms and environmental permits.

    Poultry energy costs; drought; and an environmental permit system for dairy farms.

  19. 07/03/23 - Upland farm incomes; DEFRA net zero policies; Indoor dairy herds.

    Hill farmers face a big drop in income; DEFRA net zero policies; and indoor dairy herds.

  20. 06/03/2023: Dairy, rewilding and neonicitinoids.

    Neonicotinoids are to be used in the UK despite having been banned several years ago.

  21. 04/03/23 Farming Today This Week: Sheep and the Windsor Framework, the Dutch farms facing repossession, more on salad shortages.

    Salad shortages: we hear from European growers visiting the UK.

  22. 03/03/2023 - Belgian tomato growers visit the UK, and can tech solve tail biting?

    We hear from a co-op of 1,000 fruit and salad growers from Belgium.

  23. 02/03/2023 - Pig production and labelling of pork, growing more British fruit and veg

    Producing pork and labelling to show welfare standards, and growing more British produce.

  24. 01/03/2023 - Chicken welfare, Pig medicine, Northern Ireland sheep

    Fast-growing chicken breeds, zinc treatment for pigs, farmers and the Windsor agreement.

  25. 28/02/23 - Northern Ireland Protocol and farming, pig prices, Dutch farms facing closure

    The Northern Ireland Protocol and farming; pig prices; and Dutch farms facing closure.

  26. 27/02/23 - Pork prices, dairy volatility and hoof trimming

    Pig farmers have been losing money on every pig they sell for 2 years.

  27. 25/02/23 Farming Today This Week: Salad Shortages Special

    Bare shelves in supermarkets where salads should be - we ask what's going on.

  28. 24/02/2023 Butcher shortage; Strawberries; Reintroducing wildcats

    UK butcher shortage, all-year-round strawberries, and wildcat reintroduction.

  29. 23/02/23 - Salad grower, Defra secretary at NFU conference, Reintroducing hoverflies

    Tomato grower on salad shortages, Defra secretary at NFU conference, and re-introductions.

  30. 22/02/23 NFU Conference; Defra Minister, Labour leader nd NFU president Minette Batters.

    NFU Conference, Defra minister; Labour leader and NFU president.

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