Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Farming Today This Week
Sybil Ruscoe rounds up a week of programmes focussing on trees and coronavirus.
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03/04/20: Spring drilling, Growing demand for veg boxes, Ash dieback
Is it worth drilling crops this spring?
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02/04/20 Abattoirs and coronavirus, Commerical forestry, Audio diary from Archdeacon of Cardigan
Sybil Ruscoe finds out what the coronavirus outbreak means for the supply of meat.
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01/04/20 Social distancing in horticulture, Coronavirus lockdown on a goat farm, Jobs in arboriculture
Anna Hill finds out about new measures to keep fruit pickers safe from coronavirus.
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31/03/20 Nationwide scheme to recruit British crop pickers
Talks with the DEFRA secretary on a nationwide scheme to recruit agricultural workers.
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30/03/20 For the love of trees; Newmarket races and coronavirus; Rural tourism in Angus
Charlotte Smith speaks to Darren Moorcroft from The Woodland Trust about their work.
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Farming Today This Week
How is coronavirus impacting rural lives and businesses?
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27/03/20 Farmers markets and coronavirus; A veg grower's life under lockdown; Disease in deer.
To open or close? The dilemma facing farmers' markets; a veg grower's audio diary; deer.
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26/03/20 - Walking on farmland during lockdown, deer stalking and the sound of silence...
Farmers raise concerns about people using public footpaths through farm yards.
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25/03/20 - Food chain flexibility during COVID-19, farming deer
How flexible can our food supply chain be in the face of COVID-19.
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Impact of coronavirus on the fishing industry
We hear about the effect the Covid-19 crisis is having on the fishing industry.
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23/03/20 Milk supplies and coronavirus; farm tourism and Covid19; conserving Shire horses.
How Covid19's affecting milk supplies and farm tourism in Scotland. Reviving Shire horses.
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21/03/20 - Farming Today This Week
How is the rural economy coping with coronavirus?
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20/03/20 Coronavirus and agricultural labour; Veg box demand; Payment for soil health.
Agricultural worker shortage due to Covid-19; Veg box increase; Paying for healthy soil
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19/03/2020 - Livestock markets and coronavirus; Environmental Land Management Schemes; Sounds of the countryside
Covid-19 and livestock markets; natural flood management; and the new Agriculture Bill.
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18/03/2020 - Rural businesses adapt to the coronavirus and the future of ELMS
How are rural businesses adapting in the face of the coronavirus?
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Calls to ban caged farm animals, consumer trends, ELMS
Should all forms of caging be banned in farming? We hear a vet's opinion.
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16/03/20 Coronavirus compensation for the self-employed in Ireland; the new Agriculture Bill; breeding oysters
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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Farming Today This Week
Brown or white eggs, lambing time, farm bird survey.
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13/03/20 Coronavirus and food supplies; Welsh national forest; Environmental impact of sheep
We find out about emergency plans for food supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
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12/03/20 - The Budget, rare breed lamb and import food standards
What's the fall out from the Budget for farmers?
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11/03/20 - Wet weather, coronavirus and agricultural commodities, and lambing labour
After months of intermittent rain, we catch up with progress in the fields.
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10/03/2020
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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09/03/20 - The Northern Ireland Protocol, thermal cameras for spotting birds and lambing starts
What could the Northern Ireland Protocol mean for farming and fishing?
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07/03/20 Farming Today This Week: Badger Cull
Sybil Ruscoe explores the government's decision to phase out the badger cull.
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06/03/20 - The phasing out of the badger cull
A government u-turn or just the next phase of the policy?
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05/03/20 Red diesel tax, Trespass laws, Fat-tailed sheep, Scottish agriculture post-Brexit
Farmers are angry at the idea that the current tax break on red diesel could be scrapped.
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04/03/20 Calls for slower growing breeds of chicken, Welsh biodiversity, farm produce online marketplace
The RSPCA wants all supermarkets to switch to slower-growing breeds of chickens for meat.
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US trade deal negotiations, floodplains, potato scanner
The government sets its strategy for trade with the US - what does it mean for farmers?
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02/03/20 Flooding, Agri Start-ups. Ancient farming on Dartmoor
Farmers brace themselves for the clear-up on land damaged by floods.