Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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17/01/23 Northern Ireland border posts, Drone sprayer, Liquid Fertiliser
Norther Ireland border control posts, spraying by drone and liquid fertilisers.
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16/01/23 Mass shellfish deaths; Deer count, Fertiliser
Mass shellfish deaths, hi-tech helps deer count and fertilisers.
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14/01/23 Farming Today This Week: 10 Years since the horse meat scandal, end of wild camping on Dartmoor, trucks to Ukraine.
Ten years since the horse meat scandal - could it happen again?
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13/01/23 Floods; Trucks to Ukraine; Muck spreaders.
Flooded farmers in Somerset. Farm trucks to Ukraine. Hi-tech muck spreading.
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12/01/23 Hare coursing; insects, food and pesticides; daffodil-picking robot
Some good news on how updated laws are helping police crackdown on hare coursing.
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11/01/2023 Anniversary of horse meat scandal, Lamma machinery show
Ten years since the horse meat scandal, could it happen again? Lamma machinery show.
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10/01/2023 US trade, Future of protein, Sustainable seed drill
US trade, the future of protein, and sustainable seed drill.
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09/01/23 UK hops, farm machinery, highland cattle
Hop growers are warning that unless something changes many won’t be able to continue.
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07/01/23 - Farming Today This Week: The Oxford Farming Conferences
Charlotte Smith brings you all the latest from the two Oxford Farming Conferences.
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06/01/23 - The Oxford Farming Conferences: the Politics Sessions
Anna Hill and Charlotte Smith get into politics at the Oxford Farming Conferences.
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05/01/23 - The Oxford Farming Conferences
Anna Hill is in Oxford for the two farming conferences.
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04/12/2023 Oxford farming conferences; community meals
Farming conferences in Oxford and report on food supply chain. Village community meals.
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03/01/23 A new Common Agricultural Policy, farmers' discussion group, Lord Plumb on Great Lives.
A new CAP for the EU and farmers talking farming.
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02/01/23 - Landscape Recovery Pilot
Fifty farmers and landowners in the north east Cotswolds come together with big ambitions.
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31/12/22 - 100 Years of Farm Broadcasting
Charlotte Smith delves into the BBC sound archives to celebrate 100 years of farming radio
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30/12/22 - Natural plant dyes
Rachel Lovell meets a plant dye farmer in Devon to hear more about her specialist crop.
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29/12/22 - Vital Roots Garden
How a Dorset couple is using climate change to grow subtropical foods.
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28/12/2022 Commercial wool
The sheep farm reviving its wool trade.
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27/12/22 - Forty Farms
A portrait in pictures of 40 Cumbrian farms at a time of major change to UK farming.
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26/12/22 - Kingdom Forge Blacksmiths & Brewery
Step into the Brundish countryside to explore the UK's only licensed forge
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24/12/22 - Farming Today This Week: Fishing quotas, game birds and avian flu and soil sampling
Are fishing quotas protecting fish stocks?
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23/12/2022: Water quality, pigs, potatoes and Christmas trees
Potatoes at record low prices: good news for consumers, but farmers fear it devalues them.
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22/12/2022 Fish stocks; Community Bus; Land sparing or land sharing?
Fish quotas criticised. Mobile food bank on community bus. Land sharing or sparing?
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21/12/2022 Fishing quotas; Farming in Ukraine; Young Farmers at Christmas.
Fishing quotas for 2023. How farmers are coping in Ukraine. Young Farmers at Christmas.
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20/12/2022 Environmental targets, Soil sampling, Farm shopping
Government publishes environmental targets. On-farm soil sampling. Christmas shopping.
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19/12/22 Defra report on risk of pheasants spreading bird flu, Christmas meat boxes
Defra report says pheasants increase bird flu the risks to wild birds.
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17/12/2022 Farming Today This Week; Visas for seasonal labour; Glyphosate; Cheese.
45,000 visas for seasonal workers; Plans to ban Glyphosate on Guernsey; cheese industry.
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16/12/22 - Labour shortages, farmhouse cheese and phosphorous
We hear fresh pleas for more clarity on seasonal workers.
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15/12/22 - ELMs, rolling in the frost, Guernsey glyphosate ban and cheese making
‘Bold decisive action’ needed on England’s farm payment schemes.
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13/12/2022 Migration and farming; artisan cheese
Migration Advisory Committee report. Cheese made in the remotest of places.