Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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22/11/24 Danish methane tax; intensive chicken farm
Danish methane tax, intensive chicken farming, aquaponics.
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21/11/24 Hedges, intensive pig farming, sustainable food systems
Hedgerows in decline, in spite of agri-environment schemes to help them.
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20/11/24 Farmers rally in central London
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
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
What is intensive farming, and what impact does it have?
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16/11/2024
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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15/11/24 - Scotland's Rural Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Farmer Time
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
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
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
Bird flu is back in the UK - but it's a different strain. What difference will that make?
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Cop29, Scottish Agriculture, Sark Dairy
Farmers at Cop29, new Scottish agriculture policy, and Sark dairy.
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09/11/24 Farming Today This Week: Saltmarshes, Treating Sheep Disease, Budget Reaction
Saltmarshes in North Somerset, a new approach to sheep disease, Steve Reed on the Budget.
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Cuts to Welsh environment regulator, soil erosion, Welsh sheep
Cuts to Welsh environment regulator, soil erosion, and hill farming.
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07/11/24 - Inheritance tax details, mobile sheep dips and salt-marsh plants
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The latest on a long running row over neonics.
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24/10/24 - Reducing emissions from beef, diversity training in farming, cattle sold as no one to take on farm
How beef farmers are reducing emissions by growing cattle faster.
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23/10/24 - Bird of prey deaths, ruminant emissions and spitting alpacas
Why are birds of prey still being illegally killed?
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22/10/24 - Unspent flood money, low emission sheep, seasonal workers and bison calves
Just 拢2.1 million has been handed out from a 拢50 million flood fund for farmers.
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21/10/24 - Budget concerns for farming and the environment, emissions from livestock
Today warnings that changing tax rules for farms in the budget could close many down.
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19/10/24 - Farming Today This Week: Biodiversity COP, UK wine and organic milk shortages
The UK is in danger of violating international agreements on restoring nature.
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18/10/24 - COP 16, soil microbes, wine tourisim
UK in danger of violating international agreements on nature, says the Wildlife Trusts.
