Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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26/09/2024: Bluetongue; Welsh bog; rural planning
Farmers affected by bluetongue are to be surveyed about the impact of this latest outbreak
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25/09/2024 Brownfield passports, green belt planning, agri-environment schemes.
New government proposals to speed up planning on brownfield sites.
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24/09/2024 Labour Party conference, solar farm inquiry, bluetongue, cider apples
Labour party conference - no promises on money, but a land-use framework due this autumn.
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23/09/24 - Upland farmers in trouble, new planning proposals
Upland farmers face financial pressure due to changing farm support.
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21/09/24 Farming Today This Week: Radical change to food safety proposed, flood repairs outstanding, trail hunting, blackberries
New plans to use supermarket data to enforce food safety.
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20/09/24 - English devolution, funding for rural communities, farm homeless hostel and storks
Chronic underinvestment in the English countryside is costing jobs and money.
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19/09/24 - Radical changes to food safety proposed, tech to fight food fraud, curlew conservation, carers' countryside respite
New plans to use supermarket data to enforce food safety.
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18/08/24 Trail hunting, Blackberries, Lapwings
Trail hunting - both sides of the debate.
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17/09/24 Lib Dem party conference; Farmland birds; Peat
It's party conference season and the Lib Dems map out their vision for the countryside.
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16/09/24 More farmland conservation needed for wild birds, legal challenge halts forest, flood repairs outstanding
Wild bird populations will only recover if more farmland is set aside for conservation.
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14/09/24 - Farming Today This Week: Farming underspend, Westmorland Show, fishing
Caz Graham brings you the biggest rural stories of the week.
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13/09/24 Sinking ropes to save minke whales, cod negotiations with Norway, willow biomass
Sinking ropes trial to stop minke whales being tangled in fishing gear.
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12/09/2024 Westmorland Show, farming budget underspend and its impact on the environment
Small livestock farms are most at threat from cuts to the agriculture budget.
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11/09/24 - Agriculture budget, overfishing, bottom trawling and fishermen health concerns
Has the government broken the law over fishing quotas?
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10/09/24 - Wet harvest weather, Cornish fish freezing and new EFRA Chair
Charlotte Smith looks at the impact of the weather on this year's harvest
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09/09/24 - A UK Fishing Strategy, elm disease and a National Park charity
Does the UK need a fishing strategy?
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07/09/24 Farming Today This Week: bluetongue vaccine, seabed recovery, 拢100m cuts to the farming budget?
Will the Defra underspend become written into future farming budgets?
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06/09/24 - Bluetongue, temperate rainforests and Scottish veg
The latest on the bluetongue virus.
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05/09/24 Claims of nature friendly farming budget cuts, commercialising rewilding, hedge cutting
Will the Defra underspend become written into the future budget for farmers?
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04/09/24 - NI water quality, farmer clusters and potato machinery
NI water quality targets are likely to be missed, according to a new report.
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03/09/24 - Pharmacy deserts, Biodiversity Net Gain and freeze-dried strawberries
Rural areas across England are in danger of becoming 'pharmacy deserts'.
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02/09/24 Super resistant potatoes, mussel farming, green finance
The super potato which may rescue Scotland's tattie business.
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31/08/2024: TB controls; flood relief for farmers; harvest; cattle numbers; saskatoons
A new approach to controlling TB in cattle is revealed by the Government
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30/08/2024 Bluetongue outbreaks, tea harvest, oilseed rape oil, Food and Farming Award finalists
Four cases of the bluetongue virus have been confirmed in sheep in Norfolk and Suffolk.
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29/08/2024: Nature in Scotland; a saskatoon berry; pea harvest
The Scottish Parliament is being urged to introduce legislation for nature targets.
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28/08/2024: Beef production, artificial meat, oilseed rape
UK beef production is falling, but demand stays steady.
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27/08/2024: Flooding; harvest time; fly-tipping
Flooded farmers are waiting several months for government grants to pay for the clear-up.
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26/08/24 "Mama Hen" the woman who rescues factory farmed hens
Mama Hen, the woman who rescues commercial flocks of hens when their laying days are over.
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24/08/2024 Farming Today This Week: Border controls, coastal communities, bracken, curlews, On Your Farm at 60
Border controls, the elusive curlew and belted Galloways trampling bracken.
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23/08/2024: Brian May and his bTB film; Seaweed and shellfish business
Rock star Sir Brian May on his film about bTB, cattle and badgers
