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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 31/05/21 Celebrating farming broadcaster Alan Stennett

    We celebrate a man who has given a lifetime to the farming community and the BBC.

  2. 29/05/21 - Farming Today This Week: Trade deals, flower power and neglected crofts

    The government is consulting on new trade deals - what will it mean for farmers?

  3. 28/05/21 Future of badger culls, free trade agreements, local food producers

    Badger culls in England will be phased out, but may be allowed in certain situations.

  4. 27/05/21 - New international trade deals, shopping local and meat processing staff

    The government has launched consultations on new trade deals with Canada and Mexico.

  5. 26/05/21 - An agroecological future, the Environment Bill returns, fighting bumblebee disease and PYO fruit and veg

    Could agroecology fight climate change, increase biodiversity and improve human health?

  6. 25/05/21 - Paying farmers to retire, re-introducing beavers and farm shops in lockdown

    Paying farmers to retire: it may sound new but the EU's version didn’t work.

  7. 24/05/21 - The NI Protocol, gaps in hedgrows and buying local food

    Problems with the NI protocol.

  8. 22/05/21 Farming Today This Week: Australia tariff-free trade deal, peat action plan, access to the countryside

    Farmers talk of a "betrayal" by the government on a tariff-free trade deal with Australia.

  9. 21/05/21 - The challenges of autonomous robots, Nigel Owens takes on a farm and managing people in nature

    The social, legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of robots on the farm.

  10. 20/05/21 - Australian trade deal, dogs disturbing nesting birds and bee corridors

    Are we about to sign a no-tariff trade deal with Australia?

  11. 19/05/21 - Lowland peat re-wetting, phasing out peat for horticulture and land rights.

    Can we grow food in re-wetted lowland peat?

  12. 18/05/21 - Visitors to the countryside, seasonal workers and measuring how happy a cow is

    How are farmers coping with the pressure of more visitors to beauty spots?

  13. 17/05/21 Seasonal workers, access to national parks, counting shad

    How the new immigration policy could leave Britain's food supply-chain at risk.

  14. 15/05/21 - Farming Today This Week: Action Plan for Animal Welfare. ELMS trials, tackling rural loneliness

    We scrutinise the government's new "Action Plan for Animal Welfare".

  15. 14/05/21 Tackling rural isolation, tax relief for on farm research, vertical farming, flytipping

    North Yorkshire young farmers have been drafted in to help tackle rural loneliness.

  16. 13/05/21 - ELMS trial, a "new deal" for farming and a smart village

    We visit an ELMS trial looking at what 'public goods' are worth.

  17. 12/05/21 - Government plans for Animal Welfare, AHDB Strategic Farms, and 'nature based solutions'.

    The government is launching a new action plan for animal welfare.

  18. 11/05/21 Northern Ireland climate bill; Hedgerows; Drought resistant forage

    Politicians in Northern Ireland debate climate bill; Hedgerows; Field trials of forage.

  19. 10/05/21 - Virtual health checks, livestock marts reopening and on-farm trials

    Livestock markets are beginning to cautiously open up after lockdown.

  20. 08/05/21 Farming Today This Week

    The UK potato mountain, the EU’s latest move on gene editing, and a weeding robot.

  21. 07/05/21 - Potato mountains, vintage farm machinery and farming emus

    Why more than 20% of last year’s potato crop is still in storage on farms.

  22. 06/05/21 - Deer culling in lockdown, gene editing in the EU and DIY farm machinery

    What next for the UK deer population after culling was hit by lockdown?

  23. 05/05/21 - Farm jobs for the unemployed, a green recovery and robot tractors

    We get more details about a scheme to match up unemployed people with jobs on farms.

  24. 04/05/21 Future farm machinery, robotic weeder, food innovation award

    The robotic weeder who may be destined to be at the top of every farmer’s Christmas list.

  25. The National Botanic Garden of Wales

    Mariclare Carey-Jones visits the onsite farm at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

  26. 01/05/21 - The rural vote, imports and exports and a Lincolnshire pub crawl

    How role with the rural vote play in the May 6th elections?

  27. 30/04/21 Plant clocks, local elections, peat bogs

    How tapping into plants' daily rhythms could make farming more sustainable.

  28. 29/04/21 - Imports from the EU, a global farm sustainability metric and the Scottish election

    Calls for a level playing field across checks on imports and exports from the EU.

  29. 28/04/21 - Food exports post Brexit, Welsh election, land use to save the planet

    UK food and drink exports to the EU in February were 40% down on last year.

  30. 27/04/21: Review into Northern Ireland's food and farming, local council elections, strawberries in heated tunnels

    Sir Peter Kendall heads up a new review into Northern Ireland's food and farming.

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