Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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03/07/2024 - Creamery closure, bee numbers, wildflowers, Scottish raspberries
A 240-year-old Stilton creamery in Melton Mowbray is due to close.
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02/07/24 - Danish methane tax, Electric Berries and rural/urban voting habits
Danish farmers are facing a tax on methane from cattle, pigs and slurry.
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01/07/2024 Fishing industry's election wish list; Breeding bees; Soft fruits
Fishermen call for a national fishing strategy.
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29/06/2024 - Farming Today This Week: Election Special
Charlotte Smith hosts an election special looking at rural manifesto promises.
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28/06/2024 Election manifestos; Flower farming; Hemlock
A round-up of manifesto pledges on food and farming; Cornish flower farm; Hemlock.
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27/06/24 Lib Dem's Manifesto, Groundswell regenerative farming, Sark considers Sunday tractors
Today tractors, regen ag and politics.
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26/06/24 - Labour's Manifesto, regen farming and high yielding wheat
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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25/06/24 - Conservative manifesto, venison in school and dormice reintroductions
What the Conservative Party manifesto holds on farming, the environment and rural life.
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24/06/25 Potatoes, Champing, Countryside Alliance
Potatoes, 'champing' and the Countryside Alliance.
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22/06/24 - The Royal Highland Show, UK salads and heritage wheat
We report from the 240th Royal Highland Show.
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21/06/24 The Royal Highland Show
Charlotte Smith visits the Royal Highland Show for its 240th year.
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20/06/24 - World Farmers' conference, East Yorkshire cucumbers, Green Alliance manifesto
Farmers from over 50 countries gather to discuss the future.
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19/06/24 - Re-doing the Green Revolution, the Landworkers' Alliance manifesto and horticulture training
Could the plant breeding of Green Revolution be started again from scratch?
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18/06/24 - Contaminated salad leaves, UK grown tomatoes and Soil Association election manifesto
The recent E-coli outbreak is thought to have been caused by contaminated salad leaves.
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17/06/24 Salad sales down, farming in the party manifestos, dung beetle conference
Why the outlook isn't so sunny for UK salad growers.
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15/06/24 - Reproductive ethics in livestock, dog DNA and seed breeding
What are the ethics of using IVF is cows?
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14/06/24 IVF in dairy cows, CLA election manifesto, flooding, Kate Humble at the Hay Festival
The vets using IVF to improve dairy herds.
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13/06/24 Farm vets and the strain of TB; Wildlife Trusts election wish list; Dog DNA
Environmental campaigners' wish list for the general election.
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12/06/24 - Cereals 2024, the arable event
Anna Hill reports from the arable event, Cereals 2024.
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11/06/24 - Graphene from slurry, bluetongue and vet recruitment
A farm in Somerset where methane from slurry is being turned into graphene and hydrogen.
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10/06/24 Calls for a bigger farming budget, closure of another Cornish fish market, farm vets.
We hear why farmers say farming deserves a bigger budget.
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08/06/24 - Farming Today This Week: UK pollinators, bark beetle and NI water pollution
Why spruce trees could become a thing of the past for UK timber production.
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07/06/24 Beetle threatening forestry, Northern Irish farmers and the election, moths, post-Brexit pesticide regulation
The beetle threatening the future of spruce trees.
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06/06/24 - Illegal meat, fruit pollinators and Welsh election wishes
Why illegal meat imports bring a risk of animal disease.
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05/06/24 Lough Neagh pollution; Wild fires; Farming and the general election; Bees and oil seed rape.
A chicken producer has breached environmental laws at three sites including Lough Neagh.
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04/06/24 - Monitoring pollinators, Oatly factory and farm saunas
The thousands of people across the UK are counting insects each year for citizen science.
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03/06/2024: Pollinators; Election; Service to Farming Award
Some farmers give their thoughts on what they want from the next government.
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Second homes, National Parks, Welsh dairy closure
New rules on second homes, National Parks, Welsh dairy.
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31/05/2024: Beavers and flooding, Bees, Second 91热爆s
House prices in some rural and coastal areas may fall as new planning laws come into force
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30/05/2024: Dairy, National Parks, Worms
A Welsh cheesemaker founded five years ago has announced it cannot continue.