Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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21/11/24 Hedges, intensive pig farming, sustainable food systems
Thursday
Hedgerows in decline, in spite of agri-environment schemes to help them.
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20/11/24 Farmers rally in central London
Wednesday
Thousands of farmers gather in London to protest at changes to inheritance tax.
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19/11/24 Inheritance tax, farmer protests, COP 29 in Baku
Tuesday
Ahead of big farmer protests, we look at budget changes to farm finances.
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18/11/24 - Intensive farming, indoor beef production and NI Food Strategy Framework
Monday
What is intensive farming, and what impact does it have?
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15/11/24 - Scotland's Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Farmer Time
Last Friday
Scotland's Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary on the budget and agriculture support.
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14/11/24 Regenerative agriculture and advertising standards, Scottish payments for farmers, Rothbury Estate
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Advertising watchdog gives guidance about using the term "regenerative agriculture".
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13/11/24 - Seafood carbon emission, Crofters Bill and NI sheep taskforce
Wed 13 Nov 2024
The seafood sector is now collecting carbon emissions data along the whole supply chain.
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12/11/24 - Avian flu in American cows, Scottish Agriculture Act, apple harvest
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Bird flu is back in the UK - but it's a different strain. What difference will that make?
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09/11/24 Farming Today This Week: Saltmarshes, Treating Sheep Disease, Budget Reaction
Sat 9 Nov 2024
Saltmarshes in North Somerset, a new approach to sheep disease, Steve Reed on the Budget.
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07/11/24 - Inheritance tax details, mobile sheep dips and salt-marsh plants
Thu 7 Nov 2024
We dig into the details of the new inheritance tax rules around farming.
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05/11/24 - DEFRA Secretary on inheritance tax, Basic Payments and the National Living Wage
Tue 5 Nov 2024
The DEFRA Secretary defends the decision to introduce inheritance tax on farms.
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04/11/24 Row over new chair for Dartmoor land use group, sheep, saltmarsh.
Mon 4 Nov 2024
Conservationists criticise choice of new chairman of land use group on Dartmoor.
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02/11/24 Farming Today This Week: Farmers react to the Budget
Sat 2 Nov 2024
Caz Graham hears farmers' reactions to the news that inheritance tax will apply to farms.
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01/11/24 Budget: upland farmers and environmental schemes, tax rules, home nations. Soil surveys
Fri 1 Nov 2024
Upland farmers who're losing their subsidies say there are no schemes to replace them.
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31/10/2024 - The Budget: inheritance tax will apply to farms from April 2026
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Farming has 'nothing left to give', says the National Farmers' Union.
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30/10/24 Budget preview, environmental targets, soil health on dairy farm, pumpkins
Wed 30 Oct 2024
What will the budget mean for farming and the environment?
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29/10/24 Hedgehogs on red list, soil survey in Northern Ireland, wet weather and grape harvest
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Hedgehogs are in decline and have been moved up the red list of threatened species.
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28/10/24 - Salmon deaths, mink eradication and soil
Mon 28 Oct 2024
High sea temperatures are blamed for the death of more than a million farmed salmon.
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26/10/24 Farming Today This Week: greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, illegal meat imports, alpaca spit test, white maize
Sat 26 Oct 2024
We hear from farmers working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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25/10/24 - Neonics, reducing emission from dairy and PYO pumpkins
Fri 25 Oct 2024
The latest on a long running row over neonics.
