Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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31/05/25 Farming Today This Week: Drought in north west England; new reservoirs; national parks; golden eagles.
Today
Drought is declared in the north west of England. Some farmers say their crops are ruined.
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30/05/25 - Galloway National Park turned down, the impact of deer and rare breed passion
Yesterday
Plans for a new national park in Scotland are dropped.
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29/05/25 New Reservoirs, Golden Eagles, Coastal National Park
Thursday
Plans for two new reservoirs to be speeded up.
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28/05/2025 - Galloway National Park, UK bioethanol production and fast tractors
Wednesday
Decision day nears for Galloway - will it get the UK's newest National Park?
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27/05/25 National Parks, impact of dry weather, plastic in insects.
Tuesday
National Parks, wild camping and fly camping.
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24/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: The EU-UK Summit
Last Saturday
Caz Graham looks at what the EU-UK Summit means for food, farming and fishing.
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23/05/25 - Vet meds, octopuses off Devon, Welsh bTB policy
Last Friday
Fears for the continued supply of veterinary medicine to Northern Ireland.
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21/05/2025 The UK-EU deal, badger vaccination, Scottish climate targets
Wed 21 May 2025
Could the UK-EU deal lead to newly set-up border control facilities being shut down?
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20/05/2025 - The UK-EU Summit agreements, the impact of bovine TB
Tue 20 May 2025
What will the UK-EU Summit agreements mean for food, farming and fishing?
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19/05/25 Summit to 'reset' trading between EU and UK. Bovine TB.
Mon 19 May 2025
The Cornish fishermen who say the EU UK summit to reset relations comes too late.
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17/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: US Agriculture Secretary, chlorine chicken, call for inheritance tax pause, Balmoral Show
Sat 17 May 2025
US Agriculture Secretary visits and MPs call for a delay to inheritance tax on farms.
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16/05/25 -The Balmoral Show
Fri 16 May 2025
Helen Mark reports from the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland.
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15/05/2025 Chlorine-washed chicken, turf farm, poultry housing order lifted
Thu 15 May 2025
Chlorine-washed chicken: US agriculture secretary says it鈥檚 a myth. Is it?
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14/05/25 US Agriculture Secretary in UK. Grazing system.
Wed 14 May 2025
US Agriculture Secretary visits UK to talk about new trade deal.
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13/05/25 - SFI update, herbal leys and deep soil carbon testing
Tue 13 May 2025
A Government error means 1000s of farmers could now get payments they thought they'd lost.
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12/05/25 - Ash dieback, viticulture and spring grass growth
Mon 12 May 2025
The tree disease ash dieback has been less devastating than initially feared.
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10/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: India and US trade agreements and their impacts on agriculture, land girls, seed potatoes
Sat 10 May 2025
Lamb to India and beef to the US - we discuss new trade agreements and agriculture.
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9/5/2025 UK trade deal with USA and what it means for British farmers
Fri 9 May 2025
The UK US trade deal and what it means for British farmers.
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07/05/25 - India Trade Deal, gene edited potatoes and green finance
Wed 7 May 2025
A new trade deal with India could be good news for UK farmers.
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6/5/2025 Drought warnings in Scotland, seed potatoes, asparagus
Tue 6 May 2025
Scottish farmers warned to prepare for possible summer drought.
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03/05/2025 Farming Today This Week: sandeel ruling, vets call for ban on farrowing crates, offshore wind farm, pulses
Sat 3 May 2025
EU court rules on challenge to the sandeel fishing ban.
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02/05/25 Gene-edited pigs, pea genome, agricultural transition
Fri 2 May 2025
Approval in the USA for gene-edited pigs, bred in Scotland and immune to a pig disease.
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The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry
Tue 22 Apr 2025
What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?
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Foot and mouth personal meat import ban, gearing up for sheep shearing as overseas shearer visas granted
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Travellers banned from bringing meat from the EU into the UK, due to Foot and Mouth risk.
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12/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Salmon Farming, Wildfire and Trade
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Does the future of salmon farming lie in deeper water?
