Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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07/03/22 - Welsh port facilities, the NI Protocol and sheep's milk vodka
Will UK ports and EU food suppliers be ready for new import checks in July?
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05/03/22 Farming Today This Week: New Zealand trade deal, cannabis farm in the Irish Sea, farming in Ukraine
Farming and war - we speak to a farmer in Ukraine.
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04/03/20 - Farming in Ukraine, the future of horticulture and milk contracts
Sybil Ruscoe speaks to a farmer in Ukraine.
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03/03/22 - Isle of Man medicinal cannabis, QR codes for walkers and "community supported agriculture".
We find out about plans for a medicinal cannabis farm on the Isle of Man.
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02/03/22 - Early asparagus harvest, storm damage and wildlife, new potato body and returning yellowhammers.
How has one farmer started harvesting asparagus nearly 2 months early?
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01/03/22 - Trade deal with New Zealand, aid for Ukraine and the singing dairy worker
What does the new New Zealand Trade Deal mean for farmers?
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28/02/2022 Vet shortages, 5G dairy, Belfast food producers
Vet shortages, hi-tech dairy herd, and artisan food producers in Belfast.
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26/02/2022 - Farming Today This Week: ELMs, seasonal worker pay, Ukraine conflict
We look into the controversy around how much seasonal workers will have to be paid.
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25/02/22 Ukraine War; Storm Damage; Flooding
Global impact of war in Ukraine. The aftermath of Storm Arwen. Flood plain communities.
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24/02/2022 Farming Rules for Water and rising farm costs
News from the National Farmers' Union conference.
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23/02/2022 NFU Conference - Pig industry and fertiliser prices
News from the National Farmers' Union conference.
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22/02/2022 - Growing maize for AD, young farmers and storm damage on farms
Does growing maize for anaerobic digesters make environmental sense?
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21/02/22 Future of Farming, ELMs payments, and Scotland's forests
All this week on Farming Today we’re talking about what the future of farming looks like.
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19/02/22 Farming Today This Week: Storms, sea eagles and bees or beets
The row in Dorset about farmers, eagles and policing, plus other news from this week.
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18/02/22 GM plants and rare breeds
Proposed changes to legislation around GM crops
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17/02/22 The row in Dorset about farmers, eagles and policing
Following the deaths of two sea eagles, MP Chris Loder says they are not welcome in Dorset
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16/02/22 Poor mental health in farming; rare breeds Cotswold Lion sheep and Eriskay ponies
Sybil Ruscoe is in the lambing shed with Cotswold Lion sheep, an 'at risk' rare breed.
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15/02/22 Neonicotinoids, rare breed moiled cattle, best practice maize growing
The question of whether to use chemicals that harm bees on Britain's sugar beet.
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14/02/22 Shadow DEFRA Secretary, Lowland rewilding, Rare breeds
Charlotte Smith asks the newish Shadow DEFRA Secretary for his take on new agri-policy.
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12/02/22 Farming Today This Week: Pig crisis summit, livestock markets, Kingsclere Estates
We report on pig farmers protesting about the thousands of pigs still stuck on farms.
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11/02/22 Emergency pig summit; Livestock market protests
An emergency summit to fix the crisis in the pig industry. Vegans picket livestock market.
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10/02/2022 Farm retirement payments, dairy sales, online livestock auctions
Farming’s golden handshake to ‘shake up’ opportunities for new farmers.
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09/02/22 Australian trade deal, The Fast and the Farmer-ish, young livestock auctioneers
Farming groups express concerns over the Australian trade deal.
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Port Isaac fishing and the latest on the pigs crisis
The latest on the British pig meat crisis and the declining fishing industry of Port Isaac
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07/02/2022 Shellfish deaths; Solar farm; Livestock markets
Disagreement over cause of shellfish deaths; giant solar farm plans; livestock marts.
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05/02/22 Farming Today This Week: two years from Brexit, rural health, Landscape Recovery Scheme
Two years since Brexit - how are farming businesses doing now?
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04/02/22 Pig processors; Salmon and Brexit; Elm Trees.
Pig processors defend their track record. Salmon exports. Disease-resistant elm trees.
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03/02/22 Levelling up in rural areas, dairy exports, NI post-Brexit agri-trade
Fears that the government’s new levelling up ambitions seem more like levelling down.
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02/02/22 Funding for landscape wide conservation, rural health and social care report, sheep farming after Brexit
Scheme opens for the government's most ambitious landscape-scale conservation project.
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01/02/22 Calls for a new UK-EU veterinary agreement, Brexit's impact on plant nurseries, red squirrels
Poultry farmers say not enough is being done to set up a new UK-EU veterinary agreement.