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Farming Today Episodes

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    10/01/25 The Defra Secretary at the Oxford Farming Conference

    With tractors protesting outside, what will the Defra Secretary say to farmers?

  2. 09/01/24 - Day one at the Oxford Farming Conferences

    Anna Hill is at the Oxford farming conferences where farmers are facing change.

  3. 08/01/25 - Money for farming, Bake-Off Farmer and nitrogen fixing tech

    The Wildlife Trusts want more money for farming and a stronger vision from government.

  4. 07/01/25 - Wet weather, HS2 limbo and innovative food and farming ideas

    What does the wet weather mean for farmers?

  5. 06/01/25 Bird numbers down around Lough Neagh, Scottish whisky adapting to climate change, Robot dog

    Bird counts reveal a drop in numbers around Lough Neagh - could algal blooms be to blame?

  6. 04/01/2025 Farming Today This Week: Restoring ancient barns, The Department Bull, The Derby Tup

    Ancient barns restored in the Lake District, the Department Bull, the Derby Tup.

  7. 03/01/25 Breeding dairy cows for methane reduction, Pig social skills, Salt marsh restoration

    How Hilda, a newborn dairy calf, has been bred to help tackle climate change.

  8. 02/01/25 - Gene edited indoor tomatoes, rural crime, chemical free dairy cleaning

    Doing away with chemical cleaners in dairies and using electricity and oxygen instead.

  9. 01/01/25 Crofters and the ancient Calanais Standing Stones

    Farming around the Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis.

  10. 31/12/24 - The Derby Tup

    The Derby Tup - an ancient tradition which celebrates sheep farming.

  11. 30/12/24 - The Otter Estuary

    Sarah Swadling visits a newly created salt marsh.

  12. 28/12/24 The bogs of the Flow Country - a peatland that is now a World Heritage Site.

    Bog restoration in the Flow Country - a peatland which is now a World Heritage Site.

  13. 27/12/24 Lake District Barn Rescue

    Twenty historic Lakeland barns are being saved for the nation's rural cultural heritage.

  14. 26/12/24 - Solomon the government bull

    Solomon - the bull who's hired out to crofters.

  15. 25/12/24 - Farming and star gazing in an International Dark Skies Reserve

    Farming in an an international dark sky reserve: Cranborne Chase National Landscape.

  16. 24/12/24 - Powerless: the rural community getting connected to the national grid

    A remote community in Northumberland is about to get connected to the national grid.

  17. 23/12/24 - 'Difficult' Stormont budget for environment minister, Victorian farm diaries, Turkey farmers

    No specific funding allocated in the NI budget to address pollution in Lough Neagh.

  18. 21/12/24 - Inheritance tax row, poinsettia troubles and ancient carols

    Caz Graham brings you the week's top rural stories.

  19. 20/12/24 - Rural councils warn of tax rises, surplus veg, pub Christmas carols.

    Rural councils warn that council tax will have to rise and there will be cuts in services.

  20. 19/12/24 Christmas veg price wars, woolly crafts, pubs growing food

    Discount wars as the supermarkets vie to be the best value for Christmas.

  21. 18/12/24 - Inheritance tax figures, anglers' pub, National Park changes and holly berries

    Treasury figures around the impact of changes to inheritance tax could be inaccurate.

  22. 17/12/24 - Poinsettia troubles, hop farm pub, local government reform

    Are your Christmas poinsettias under threat from the white-fly police?

  23. 16/12/24 TB testing device, rural pubs and community buy-outs.

    Scientists working on a real-time test for bovine TB.

  24. 14/12/24 Farming Today This Week: Farmer protests, tomato import checks, dairy farmers leaving, Christmas turkeys

    Turkeys, tomatoes and a tractor protest at parliament.

  25. 13/12/2024: Farmers market; environmental impact of farming; prison farm

    A Christmas market run by farmers who explain how to cook their produce.

  26. 12/12/24 Farmer protests, Efra inquiry into the future of farming, TB and dairy farmers.

    Farmers take tractors to London in protest inheritance tax changes.

  27. 11/12/24 Welsh budget, new agri-environment schemes, farmers protest, international trade, dairy farmers.

    Welsh government budget - what's in it for farming and the environment?

  28. 10/12/24 Avian flu bounce back, methane emissions, intensive dairy

    Two years after losing all his poultry, a turkey farmer bounces back after bird flu.

  29. 09/12/2024 Port inspections risk spreading plant disease, dairy industry at 'tipping point'

    Warnings that the new border inspection system risks letting in disease.

  30. 07/12/2024 Farming Today This Week: Dairy emissions; solar farm; workers; Food and Farming Awards

    Controversy over reducing greenhouse gases from cattle.

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