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12/03/25 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill and an agricultural drone contractor

What will the Planning and Infrastructure Bill mean for rural communities?

• 14 mins

13/03/25 Farmers react to environmental scheme closure

The government halts applications to a major environmental farming scheme.

• 14 mins

14/03/25 - Farming Minister on closing the environmental farming scheme

The Farming Minister says closing environmental farming scheme is a sign of its success.

• 14 mins

15/03/25 - Farming Today This Week: The closure of SFI, foot and mouth disease and agricultural drones

The SFI has been closed - we hear from farmers, environmentalists and the farming minister

• 25 mins

17/03/25 Covid anniversary and its legacy on farms. Biosecurity and keeping diseases at bay.

What did the farming and food industry learn from the Covid lockdowns?

• 12 mins

18/03/25 - Hare coursing, xylella and soil microplastics

Farmers fear the rise in violent encounters with illegal hare coursers.

• 14 mins

19/03/25 - Rural pubs, avian flu biosecurity and nurdles on beaches

Concern for the future of rural pubs after government fund closes.

• 14 mins

20/03/25 - Fairness in the supply chain, biosecurity measures to prevent a livestock epidemic

Are biosecurity measures good enough to prevent another major epidemic in farm livestock?

• 14 mins

21/03/25 New National Forest, Biosecurity at the border, farming medicinal cannabis.

A new National Forest for England, the first in 30 years.

• 14 mins

22/03/25 - Farming Today This Week: Hare coursing, Fairness in food supply chain, Covid's legacy on farms, Biosecurity

Farmers fear the rise in violent encounters with illegal hare coursers.

• 25 mins

24/3/25 National pesticides action plan, egg week overview, forced rhubarb

Government sets new target to reduce pesticide use by 10% over next five years.

• 12 mins

25/03/25 Bird flu in sheep, free-range eggs, restoring lost ponds

First case of avian flu found in a sheep.

• 14 mins

26/03/25 Red Tractor responds to farm assurance review, Efra inquiry into border checks, colony eggs

Red Tractor promises change after farm assurance review.

• 14 mins

27/03/25 Chancellor's spring statement, pullets, nitrogen inquiry.

The chancellor's spring statement - what's in it for the rural economy?

• 14 mins