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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 12/04/23: Oysters; Bird Flu; On Farm Research

    A farmer gives his reaction to a proposed ban on the farming of Pacific Oysters.

  2. 11/04/23 Restoring temperate rainforests, blackcurrant research

    We hear why an insurance company is paying millions to restore a temperate rainforest.

  3. 10/04/23 Maize: friend or foe?

    Sarah Swadling investigates the pros and cons of growing maize.

  4. 08/04/23 Farming Today This Week: Government plan for water; Red Tractor; pigs; eggs and trade deal; Dartmoor camping; skylarks

    New plan for water, Red Tractor, pigs, eggs, Dartmoor camping, skylarks and blackbirds.

  5. 07/04/23 - The UK National Willow Collection

    Sarah Swadling visits the UK's National Willow Collection.

  6. 06/04/2023 Trade deal and battery eggs; Appeal against wild camping ruling; Pork labelling

    UK egg producers say the new trans-Pacific trade deal is bad for the British egg industry.

  7. 05/04/23 Blueprint plans for water; peat restoration; eco labelling

    New government plan for water, wool to restore peatlands and eco-labelling.

  8. 04/04/23 Red Tractor and environmental certification; sky larks

    Red Tractor defends its credentials as a river charity makes a complaint about it.

  9. 03/04/2023 Food labelling and standards, Conservation funding, Peat

    Food labelling, 拢18 million conservation fund, and the deadline for phasing out peat.

  10. 01/04/2023 Farming Today This Week: Food fraud, farm waste, CPTPP, angry skylark

    A new Trans Pacific Trade Agreement; what will it mean for farmers in the UK?

  11. 31/03/23 Trans-Pacific trade deal; "green day" policies; TB in Wales; SNP cabinet reshuffle; recycling shotgun cartridges

    Trans-Pacific trade deal; net zero plan; TB in Wales; SNP cabinet; recycling cartridges.

  12. 30/03/23 Hunting; new trade deal on horizon; government鈥檚 鈥済reen day鈥�; food waste.

    Hunt suspended; trade deal; food waste; government policies due on 'green day'.

  13. 29/03/23 Plans to license pheasant releases in Wales; more shellfish testing; micro algae technology.

    Plans to license release of game birds; more shellfish tests; micro-algae technology.

  14. 28/03/23 Environmental reporting; listeria outbreak; agriplastic pollution; recycling farm plastics.

    Environmental reporting; listeria; agricultural plastic pollution; recycling farm plastic.

  15. 27/03/23 - Dartmoor management, farm waste and ammonia emissions

    MPs call for an independent process to balance farming and conservation on Dartmoor.

  16. 25/03/23 Farming Today This Week: cost of producing crab; Pacific oysters; prawn deaths; Precision Breeding Act; Muirburn.

    Cost of producing crab; Pacific oysters; prawn deaths; Precision Breeding Act; Muirburn.

  17. 24/03/23 - Pacific oysters, grouse moor management and precision breeding

    Oyster farms are facing closure, and Scottish grouse moors may have to be licenced.

  18. 23/03/23 - Crab sales, Spanish drought and horticulturists of the future

    The rising costs of selling shellfish.

  19. 22/03/23 Calls for crab quotas; soft shell crabs; oat processing plant.

    Calls to protect crab populations; Soft shell crabs in Northern Ireland; New oat factory.

  20. 21/03/23 Henry Dimbleby stands down from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

    Food Tsar Henry Dimbleby resigns from Defra; Mussels; Bovine TB in people.

  21. 20/03/23 Calls to re-open inquiry into shellfish deaths; shellfish industry; seasonal workers

    Calls to re-open shellfish inquiry; shellfish industry; new seasonal worker task force.

  22. 18/03/23 Farming Today This Week: rows over sheep; Dutch farmers winning elections; exploited migrant workers.

    The tensions between where sheep are, should be, should not be and who decides.

  23. 17/03/23 Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to be drastically reduced: Private finance carbon capture

    Sheep numbers on Dartmoor to reduce dramatically. Private finance and carbon capture.

  24. 16/03/23 Budget response: from a farming and environmental perspective; Plant Atlas.

    What's in the budget for farming and the environment? Plant Atlas and biodiversity loss.

  25. 15/03/23 Rural poverty; biodiversity credits; tree disease

    Rural poverty, farmers selling bio-diversity credits, and disease destroying larch trees.

  26. 14/04/23 Nepalese workers exploited; re-introducing sea eagles; new wetlands

    Nepalese workers exploited by employment agency. Sea eagle re-introduction. New wetlands.

  27. 13/03/23 Fruit growers giving up on apples, the Precision Breeding Act, Wild Isles.

    Why apple growers are digging up their orchards.

  28. 11/03/2023 Farming Today This Week: food fraud, imported beef sold as British; upland farm incomes; drought

    Imported beef sold as British; hill farm incomes fall, but minister defends ELMS; drought.

  29. 10/03/2023 Food fraud: imported beef sold as British

    Imported beef sold as British: 10 years after horsegate we ask how this can happen.

  30. 09/03/2023 Anger at drop in income for hill farmers, dairy welfare tech, new register for backyard hens

    Warnings that the government's green approach to hill farming will backfire.

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