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21 million birds have been killed as the USA tries to halt a bird flu epidemic. The virulent H5N2 strain of the disease has affected 14 states across the Mid West. Chief Executive of Minnesota Turkey production, Steve Olsen, explains why millions of turkeys and laying hens on affected farms are being culled.

The biggest ever shipment of wheat to be exported from the UK is leaving port this morning. It's taken a week just to load the ship which will take grain from 300 farms in the East Midlands to Thailand. The 66,000 tonnes of wheat will be used to feed animals in SE Asia. Jonathan Lane of Gleadall Agriculture explains that the low price for wheat in Europe means that it's now worth farmers looking further afield than traditional markets in the UK and Europe.

Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival - and Somerset's best known dairy farmer - tells Farming Today why he's delighted to've won what for him is the biggest prize of all - the prestigious National Milk Records/Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers Gold Cup.

When small is beautiful: while in the past many of Scotland's 18,000 crofts have lain abandoned, that's no longer the case. Nancy Nicolson meets Toni Clark who runs courses for would-be crofters in Ross-shire in the Highlands.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.