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    02/05/25 Gene-edited pigs, pea genome, agricultural transition

    Approval in the USA for gene-edited pigs, bred in Scotland and immune to a pig disease.

  2. 1/5/25 Vets call for ban on farrowing crates, wind farm and wild birds, processing pulses.

    Vets call for farrowing crates to be banned.

  3. 30/4/25 Welsh community food strategy, British-grown pulses, biostimulant for wheat

    New community food strategy for Wales.

  4. 29/4/25 Energy infrastructure, growing pulses for animal feed, horticulture report

    Comparing energy infrastructure: underground cables cost 4.5 times more than pylons.

  5. 28/04/25 - Spring flush is causing problems at dairies, pulses, swapping cows for trees.

    Why this year's spring flush is causing problems at dairies.

  6. 26/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Agroforestry, Planning, Rare Breeds, EU food Imports

    Are people aware of the ban on bringing meat and dairy home from the EU?

  7. 25/04/25 Concerns around lack of awareness of EU food import ban, trade talks, agroforestry

    The posters you can't find and what cow power can mean in a woodland.

  8. 24/04/2025 Warning that changes to planning bill threatens nature; calls for a rare breeds ministerial roundtable, silvopasture

    Warnings that new plans to speed up planning threaten both developers and nature.

  9. 23/04/2025 - price wars, bovine TB, agroforestry

    Supermarket price war, agroforestry, bovine TB.

  10. The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry

    What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?

  11. Exploring a sea of glass at Lea Valley

    A special edition reports from the salad growing glasshouses of the Lea Valley.

  12. 19/04/25 Farming Today This Week: wildfires, British farm standards, EU meat imports ban, vertical farms, sheep shearing

    A ban on bringing meat and dairy home from EU holidays to protect against foot and mouth.

  13. An Excess of Access?

    Are Scotland's liberal access laws working?

  14. 170425 - food standards, farmers' mental health, spring lambing

    Food standards, farmers' mental health, spring lambing.

  15. 16/04/25 - India trade deal, Scottish ferries, digital sheep farming

    India trade deal, Scottish ferries, digital sheep farming, spring on the farm.

  16. Foot and mouth personal meat import ban, gearing up for sheep shearing as overseas shearer visas granted

    Travellers banned from bringing meat from the EU into the UK, due to Foot and Mouth risk.

  17. 14/04/25 - vertical farm, red beetle, spring cows

    Vertical farm closure, red flour beetle, Spring cows.

  18. 12/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Salmon Farming, Wildfire and Trade

    Does the future of salmon farming lie in deeper water?

  19. 11/04/25 - Trade, Farmed Fish, Schmallenberg, Sark Dairy

    Trade turmoil, Schmallenberg, farmed fish, Sark Dairy closes.

  20. 10/04/2025 Wildfires and managing moorland, farmed salmon, early asparagus

    Could relaxing environmental rules help avoid wildfires?

  21. 09/04/25 Funding for checks at the border, salmon farming

    Farmers say the government isn't spending enough on stopping illegal meat imports.

  22. Scottish Farm Incomes, US Trade Red Lines, Farmed Trout

    Latest figures show a 50% drop in the average Scottish farm income.

  23. 07/04/2025: Avian flu, farmed fish, food strategy

    Avian flu is spreading, a look at farmed fish, and a new food strategy advisory board.

  24. 05/04/25 Farming Today This Week: Trump's trade tariffs; Island life - from housing and ferries to dairy farming; Wildfires

    Trump's trade tariffs and what it means for producers.

  25. 04/04/2025 Tariffs and global food trade, Isles of Scilly flowers, university farm sell-off

    What impact will new US tariffs have on international food and farming trade?

  26. 03/04/25 Extreme risk of wildfires, review of environmental regulations, Rathlin Island, hunting turtle doves

    Warnings of extreme risk of wildfires in Scotland.

  27. 02/04/25 Housing shortages in Scottish islands, Farming Minister quizzed on farm support, tree planting.

    Housing shortages on the Scottish islands and how they affect young people.

  28. 01/04/25 Review of agricultural pollution rules in Wales, ban on burning peat, island ferries

    An independent review into rules around muck in Wales.

  29. 31/03/25 Lifeline for Guernsey dairy farmers, wartime farm survey, turtle dove conservation

    Guernsey dairy farmers welcome an increase in the support they receive from government.

  30. 29/03/25 Farming Today This Week: Bird flu in a sheep; Egg production; Red Tractor review; Chancellor's spring statement.

    First case of avian flu found in a sheep.

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