Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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27/03/24 - ELMs change, leather and otters
Are government environmental schemes threatening food security?
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26/03/24 - London farmer protests, Scottish herring and hempcrete
Farmers head to Westminster to protest over food security.
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25/03/24 The value of British wool; septic tank crisis.
Why is wool so worthless for farmers?
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23/03/24 - Farming Today This Week: Universal credit, grouse moor licencing and shellfish
Why some farmers are being told to sell up and get a different job.
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22/03/24 Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots, illegal waste dumping, oyster fishing on the Fal
Licensing for Scottish grouse shoots becomes a reality.
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21/03/24 - Universal Credit changes for farmers, mussel farming
A change to the benefits system hits farmers disproportionately.
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20/03/24 - Shellfish deaths, incoming Welsh First Minister, waste wool and avian flu
Fishermen and wildlife are still feeling the impact from mass shellfish deaths in 2021
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19/03/24 Farmer protests and EU concessions; Scampi; Special protection areas for wild birds; New national nature reserve.
Farmers protest in Madrid despite EU concessions.
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18/03/24 Forecast for farm incomes; Scottish land reform; Shellfish.
Forecast for farm incomes in England makes for grim reading as some farms face a 78% fall.
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16/03/24 Farming Today This Week: Badger culls, food labelling, religious slaughter
The UK's Chief Vet discusses plans for more badger culling in England.
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15/03/24 - Welfare labelling, badger culling, cat gut strings and winter planting
The UK's Chief Vet discusses plans for more badger culling in England
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14/03/24 Organised gangs and rural crime; Heritage crime and nighthawkers; Salmon feed from whisky byproducts.
Rural crime and the serious organised criminals who prey on countryside communities.
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13/03/24 Vet shortage, brewing by-product, lamb virus
MPs discuss how a shortage of vets in England is affecting farming and food safety.
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12/03/24 River pollution from poultry farming; Chicken litter used to generate power; Ramadan lamb
Soil Association report calls for a halt to any new intensive broiler farms.
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11/03/24 Tree planting and agroforestry; Pesticides report; Fertiliser from byproducts.
Children create agroforestry; MPs report on insect decline; Byproducts.
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Lambing, hedgerow cutting, new farming entrants
Lambing, hedge trimming rules, new farming entrants.
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08/03/24 Farmer protests; Red Tractor / green tractor row; Learning to lamb.
AHDB and the National Farmers Union call on Red Tractor to drop its green tractor element.
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07/03/24 Spring budget and farming communities: Lambing
The spring budget and what is, or isn't, in it for rural communities.
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06/03/24 - Hedgerow rules, neonics and lambing
Do the new rules protecting hedgerows go far enough?
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05/03/24 - Fertilising by drone, heritage wheat traits and multiple lambs
Farming Today discusses the use of drones to apply fertiliser on wet fields.
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04/03/24 Local food for public sector; Rural crime; Lambing
Why don't councils, schools and hospitals buy more food from local farmers?
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02/03/24 Welsh farmers' protest; UK rivers' health
Farmers' protests; and the state of UK rivers.
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01/03/24 AI Weather forecasts six weeks in advance; Trout farm; River pollution.
How AI could help farmers with weather forecasts six weeks ahead.
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29/02/24 Welsh farmers protest at Senedd; Natural flood management; Battery storage plans
Thousands of farmers protest outside the Welsh Senedd about plans for new subsidies.
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28/02/24 Phone masts in remote areas, river pollution, chalkstreams on farms
New phone masts in remote areas.
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27/02/24 Pollack fishermen criticise government scheme to help. Pollution on the River Wye. Food systems.
Pollack fishermen in Cornwall say government package of help won't save their fishery.
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26/02/24 Welsh farmers welcoming a greener farming policy; river pollution and flooding
Farmers in Wales who support a new green subsidy scheme feel afraid to speak out.
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Farming Today This Week 24/02/24 Farmer protests in Wales; Lesley Griffiths; Prime minister at NFU Conference; new NFU president
Farmer protests in Wales, minister says she's listening. Prime minister at NFU Conference.
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23/02/24 Farmer protests in Wales: Lesley Griffiths; next farming generation; outgoing president of the NFU
As farmer protests continue in Wales the Rural Affairs Minister tells us she is listening.
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22/02/24 NFU Conference: Political hustings and a new president
Political hustings at the NFU Conference and a new NFU president.
