Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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11/02/25 - Inheritance tax protest and farming mental health
Today
We report from the latest tractor rally in London in opposition to inheritance tax changes
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10/02/25 - Animal protein in livestock feed, hare coursing and community care
Yesterday
Should meat be allowed in some animal feed? The government consults.
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08/02/25 Farming Today This Week: illegal meat imports, call for bird flu housing order, NFUS report on inappropriate language
Saturday
MPs are told German animal products entered UK despite foot and mouth import ban.
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06/02/25 - Call for countrywide bird flu housing order, inheritance tax uncertainty for Scottish farm tenants, food preparedness
Thursday
Egg producers want their chickens ordered inside to protect them from bird flu.
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05/02/25 - Illegal meat imports, council farms and plant nutrients
Last Wednesday
MPs are told animal products from Germany entered the UK despite an import ban.
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04/02/25 - UK-EU trade relations, the Rock Review, Breckland soils
Last Tuesday
What could a 'reset' in the UK-EU relationship mean for food and farming?
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03/02/25 - Tenant farmers, silage competition, slow fashion
Last Monday
We talk tenant farmers and prize-winning silage.
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01/02/25 - Land Use Framework, inheritance tax, avian flu
Sat 1 Feb 2025
What will the new Land Use Framework mean in practice?
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29/01/25 - Avian flu in people, housing orders for birds and English farm payments
Wed 29 Jan 2025
What are the risks flu for farmworkers when it comes to avian flu?
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28/01/25 - Storm clear-up, agricultural valuers and Welsh farm policy update
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Trees felled by Storm Eowyn are still being cleared up by farmers and land managers.
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27/01/25 - Crops in a new climate, International Barley Hub and agricultural transition
Mon 27 Jan 2025
Could UK farmers be growing oranges in the future as the climate warms?
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25/01/25 - Farming Today This Week: Inheritance tax, sheep scanning, neonics and US undocumented farmworkers
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Will the supermarkets make a difference on inheritance tax for farmers?
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24/01/25 - Inheritance tax, sheep scanning, neonics and stolen Ukrainian grain
Fri 24 Jan 2025
The supermarkets weigh in on farm inheritance tax.
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23/01/25 Climate change impact on Scottish marine life, muck spreading and the rules around it.
Thu 23 Jan 2025
Report looks at how climate change and warmer waters are affecting Scottish marine life.
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22/01/25 - US undocumented farmworkers, hedge laying, avian flu and the art of soil
Wed 22 Jan 2025
How President Trump's plans to deport illegal immigrants could hit farmworkers.
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21/01/25 - Farm Assurance Review, sandeel court case and calf weaning
Tue 21 Jan 2025
"Too many farmers feel farm assurance is 'done to them' rather than 'delivered with them'"
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20/01/25 - Warnings over the future of the Scottish salmon industry, succession on farms, fencing
Mon 20 Jan 2025
Scottish Government too slow in implementing reforms recommended for salmon farming.
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18/01/25 - Farming Today This Week: LAMMA machinery show, Climate advice on meat, Foot and Mouth
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Charlotte Smith visits the LAMMA machinery show in Birmingham.
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17/01/25 - CCC changes advice on eating meat, report finds environmental targets off track, adapting farm machinery
Fri 17 Jan 2025
The Climate Change Committee is revising its advice on eating meat.
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16/01/25 - The LAMMA 2025 Farm Machinery Show
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Charlotte Smith checks out the latest in farm machinery at LAMMA 2025
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15/01/2025 - UK bans imports of German meat following foot & mouth outbreak in Germany, devolved agriculture ministers, combines
Wed 15 Jan 2025
UK bans imports of German meat, as authorities there tackle an outbreak of foot and mouth.
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14/01/2025 - Trade with the EU, gene editing, robotic milking and small abattoir closures
Tue 14 Jan 2025
England diverges from the EU and the rest of the UK on gene editing.
