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Farming Today Episodes

  1. Farming Today This Week: Sugar

    Anna Hill finds out about sugar production on British farms.

  2. 24/01/20: Sugar and health, calf-at-foot investment, quantifying natural capital

    Perspectives on sugar and public health - and a new way to measure natural capital.

  3. 23/01/20: Farming and climate change

    A report out today from the Committee on Climate Change says farming must change.

  4. 22/01/20 Thousands of salmon escape from offshore farm, veterans for agriculture, sugar beet logistics

    We hear what the consequences are for wild salmon stocks when farmed salmon escape.

  5. 21/01/20 Post-Brexit ban on chlorine-washed chicken, Welsh agriculture bill, ropeless lobster pots, fodder beet

    Why the UK could find it hard to ban chlorine-washed chicken and hormone beet post-Brexit.

  6. 20/01/20: Devolved farming, Sugar beet, Weather

    Charlotte Smith asks what's in store for farmers in the devolved nations after Brexit.

  7. Pig Farming in the UK

    Charlotte Smith visits a pig farm in Devon.

  8. 17/01/20: Future of farming after the Agriculture Bill; Protein for pigs

    What is the future for farming and for Defra in the light of the new Agriculture Bill?

  9. 16/01/20 - The new Agriculture Bill, pig welfare and tail docking

    The Agriculture Bill is back, with a few changes.

  10. 15/01/20 - High welfare pig farrowing pens, the return of Stormont, banning the badger cull and tree planting

    Pig farrowing crates are controversial - we find out about a new high welfare design.

  11. 14/01/20 Australian bushfires, pork labelling

    We hear whether the Australian bushfires will have an impact on global agricultural trade.

  12. 13/01/20: Pig sector, Lambing in January, American trade tariffs

    Trade tariffs are affecting exporters of some food products, including cheese and whisky.

  13. Highlights from the Oxford Farming Conferences

    Charlotte Smith brings you some of the best bits from the two Oxford Farming Conferences.

  14. 10/01/20: Day 3 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

    Charlotte Smith reports from both the farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.

  15. 09/01/20: Day 2 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

    Charlotte Smith hears about the future of trade and the new plan for a food strategy.

  16. 08/01/2020 - Day 1 at the Oxford Farming Conferences

    Charlotte Smith is at the Oxford Farming Conference.

  17. 07/01/20: Farming conferences in Oxford, Tenant farmers, Maximum crop yields.

    Charlotte Smith hears about the two farming conferences happening in Oxford this week.

  18. 06/01/20 - Mobile abattoirs, farm investment and LAMMA 2020.

    Can mobile abattoirs improve animal welfare?

  19. 04/01/20 Farming Today This Week: Minette Batters reflects on 2019

    The president of the National Farmers' Union looks back on a tumultuous farming year.

  20. 03/01/20 - The value of auction marts, the cost of black grass and innovative hydro-power.

    How valuable are auction marts to the rural community - new research asks the question.

  21. Island Abattoir

    What does the future hold for small-scale abattoirs?

  22. National Pig Centre

    Charlotte Smith visits the new National Pig Centre.

  23. Inspiring The Archers

    Charlotte Smith visits the real-life farms that help inspire The Archers.

  24. Hare Coursing

    Anna Hill investigates the illegal sport of hare coursing.

  25. Farming in the Cradle of Christianity

    What's it like farming on the Isle of Iona, which gets more than 100,000 visitors a year?

  26. Plastic Forests

    Is it time to rethink the role of single-use plastic guards in tree planting?

  27. Farming the Lakes

    Can traditional farming survive in the Lake District?

  28. Mistletoe

    Emma Campbell visits a farm preparing to take a crop of mistletoe to auction.

  29. The Young Tenant Farmer

    Meet Joe Rabicano - an 18-year-old who has just been awarded a council farm tenancy.

  30. 23/12/19: Livestock market carols, Sheep as pest control.

    A livestock market near Dundee turns festive to help combat rural isolation.

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