Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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18/10/19 Brexit deal; Brexit Party conference; Archbishop and community cafe; rural transport
Brexit deal and food and farming; Brexit party conference; farmers' cafe; rural transport.
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17/10/19: Falling demand for beef, SNP rural policy, Rural schools
Anna Hill asks Professor David Hughes why demand for beef is falling in the UK.
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16/10/19 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit and rural banks
Charlotte Smith visits the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London.
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15/10/19: Queen's speech, No-deal Brexit and tariffs, Rural services overview
Anna Hill and Heather Simons reflect on the newly-introduced Environment Bill.
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14/10/19: New report on the badger cull, rural mobile signal
Charlotte Smith asks Professor Christl Donnelly about her new report into the badger cull.
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12/10/19 Farming Today This Week: Wine
Charlotte Smith visits an East Sussex vineyard for a rather wet grape harvest.
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11/10/19: Tony Juniper on the badger cull, New Scientist Live and farming, Elderflower wine
Charlotte Smith asks chair of Natural England Tony Juniper about the badger cull.
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10/10/19: Inshore fisheries and Brexit, Tony Juniper interview part 1, English wine
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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09/10/19 Payment by results for farmers, badger behaviour in cull areas, fortified wine
We hear why paying for results is getting farmers on board with wildlife.
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08/10/19 Modern slavery, oil seed rape feed, grape wine harvest
A new report says farming companies' modern slavery statements are not up to scratch.
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7/10/19: UK Wine, Dartmoor Ponies, Farming Protestors
A new variety of grape is set to transform the UK wine industry according to scientists.
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Four Weeks Until Brexit
Charlotte Smith is joined by an export panel to discuss where we are with four weeks to go
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04/10/2019: Northern Irish and Welsh farmers on Brexit, State of Nature report, Green Party conference
Northern Irish farmers react to the latest Brexit deal proposals on the border in Ireland.
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03/10/19: Northern Ireland trade post-Brexit, Seasonal workers, Flooded farms
Charlotte Smith and trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski discuss Boris Johnson's Brexit plan.
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02/10/2019
Sheep farmer Campbell Tweed and Anna Hill talk trade in Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
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01/10/19: Scottish fishing after Brexit, Young farmer in Shropshire, Farming and mental health
Kevin Keane reports from Peterhead Fish Market to see if the industry is ready for Brexit.
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30/09/19 Tory Conference; environmental land management; Brexit
Environment Minister says Agriculture Bill lives on; farm wildlife; Brexit countdown.
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Farming Today This Week: Livestock markets
Anna Jones finds out how Frome market is offering emotional support to farmers.
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27/09/19 Land matching; shooting licences; market chaplaincy
New farmers helped to find land; shooting licence changes; support for farmers at market.
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26/09/19 Deer control; fish stocks; livestock agent; planting trees
Deer management programme ending; fish stocks on the move; livestock agent; afforestation.
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25/09/19 Agriculture Bill back on track, livestock market closures, Yeo Valley at 25
After the Supreme Court ruling on prorogation - is the Agriculture Bill back on track?
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24/09/19 Labour Party Conference, Pond Restoration, Melton Market
Can the Labour party promise farmers it will back them through Brexit?
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23/09/2019 National Parks, Artificial reefs, Livestock marts
Will the money be available to fund radical plans for England's National Parks.
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Farming Today This Week: GM
Charlotte Smith and guests discuss whether GM crops have a future in the UK.
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20/09/2019 GM crops, Otters on the farm, Irish beef
The arguments for and against growing GM crops from an industry insider and a campaigner.
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19/09/19: Funding for the environment, GM high-iron wheat, Eating Blue Shark
Conservation organisations say £2.9bn will be needed for the environment post-Brexit.
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18/09/19: Anti GM, Disease-resistant potatoes, Kiwi berries
Anna Hill asks whether genetic modification and the organic label can ever co-exist.
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17/09/19 Soya animal feed, Liberal Democrats' rural policies, man-made wetland
Is feeding UK livestock soya, grown in Brazil, helping to damage the planet?
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16/09/19 GM crops, wild fires, rural homelessness
The future of GM crops, the ecological impact of peat fires and rural homelessness.
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Farming Today This Week: Angling
Sybil Ruscoe heads to Lenches Lakes in Evesham to try her hand at a spot of fly fishing.