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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 21/02/23 Salad shortages; Wheat disease; Juniper reintroduction

    Salad shortage in supermarkets, disease-resistant wheat and juniper re-introduction.

  2. 20/02/23 - Seasonal worker scheme, species re-introductions and global food trade

    Is the seasonal worker visa scheme failing to work for both workers and operators?

  3. 18/03/23 Farming Today This Week: Seasonal Labour; Environment Agency delays; Space tech used in food and farming; Lambing

    Seasonal labour, delays at Environment Agency, space tech in farming, and lambing.

  4. 17/02/23 - Seasonal workers, Mars rover tech and lambing

    One of the firms that operates the seasonal workers visa scheme has its licence revoked.

  5. 16/02/23 - Monitoring fishing from space, lambing and ammonia emissions

    Using satellites to monitor illegal fishing.

  6. 15/02/23 Environment Agency delays; Meat in space; Seabirds

    Poultry farmer says admin delays are jeopardizing business. Space-grown meat; Seabirds.

  7. 14/02/23 - Scottish agricultural policy reform and monitoring forests from space

    Scottish farmers and crofters want more details on agricultural policy reform.

  8. 13/02/2023 - Shellfish deaths, Mental health, Farming from space

    The government says it has finished investigating the mass die-off of shellfish in 2021.

  9. 11/02/23 Farming Today This Week: Shadow Defra Secretary on the right to roam, chicken manure on the River Wye, peat.

    Farmers and the right to roam in England and Wales.

  10. 10/02/23 - NFU Scotland conference, Peat, Right to roam

    Scottish NFU conference, peat extraction in Somerset, and right to roam in Scotland.

  11. 09/02/23 Right to roam on farms, peat training, pests' genomes.

    Farmers and the right to roam in England and Wales.

  12. 08/02/23 TB vaccine trials; Government reshuffle; Rewetting peatlands

    Next phase in trials of Bovine TB vaccine. Government reshuffle. Rewetting peatland.

  13. 07/02/2023 River pollution and poultry farming; Peat; Eco homes.

    Poultry producer's pledge on river pollution. Growing without peat. Eco homes for locals.

  14. 06/02/23 - Restoring landscapes and growing food; wetlands; peat.

    Restoring landscapes, and how that fits in with growing food.

  15. Farming Today This Week: Environmental Improvement Plan; Fruit growers; Potatoes; Rural Poverty.

    Government targets to improve the environment; potatoes; top fruit; rural poverty.

  16. 03/02/22 Dental deserts, forestry training, PCN resistant potatoes.

    The dental deserts in the UK's rural and coastal towns.

  17. 02/02/2023 Fruit growers; Rural poverty; Record crops

    Apple growers not planting new trees, rural hardship, and record-breaking arable farmer.

  18. 01/02/2023 - Land Use report; Potatoes; Oil central heating.

    Royal Society Land Use Report; help for potato farmers; and rural heating bills.

  19. 31/01/23 - Environment targets; Rural Poverty.

    Targets to improve the environment, and rural homelessness.

  20. 30/01/23 Welsh Agriculture Bill; Rural poverty; Giant Hedge.

    Senedd reports on Agriculture Bill in Wales, rural poverty, and a giant hedge.

  21. 28/01/23 FTTW: Land use, Defra secretary, fishing week

    Farming and the environment with the Defra secretary, Therese Coffey.

  22. 27/01/23 - Defra minister on new environmental schemes; Fishing

    The Defra secretary on the sustainable farming incentive; and pressure on fishing waters.

  23. 26/01/23 - The Scottish hunting ban, more detail on English farm payments, rural buses, abuse in migrant fishing crews

    Loopholes on the Scottish hunting ban are being closed, but the arguments continue.

  24. 25/01/23 25/01/23 Burning heather on peatlands; Fishing apprenticeships

    New report says controlled heather burning can benefit peatlands. Fishing apprenticeship.

  25. 24/02/2023 Fishing labour and visas; Land use and land values.

    Fishing visas and labour shortages. Land prices and land use and communities.

  26. 23/01/23 Land use strategy & fishing industry.

    Lab grown sausages and an apolitical body to set land use policy.

  27. 21/01/2023 Farming Today This Week: Report into mass shellfish deaths; Second homes; Rural crime; Fertilisers.

    Independent report into mass shellfish deaths. Second homes. Rural crime. Fertilisers.

  28. 20/01/23 Double council tax for second homes, reducing fertilisers, new agreement for Dartmoor wild camping

    Council tax on second homes in Cornwall is set to double to ease the housing crisis.

  29. 19/01/23 Rural crime: farmer using tyres to stop joyriders in breach of planning; OEP report; companion cropping for soil health

    The planning laws stopping a farmer from protecting his land from joyriders and criminals.

  30. 18/01/23 Livestock rustling and diesel theft; Fertiliser

    Livestock and diesel thefts. The impact of war and new technologies on fertiliser.

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