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Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Radio 4,25 episodes

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03/03/25 - Solar farms on tenant farms, the wisdom of retired fishermen and supply chain fairness
A warning for tenant farmers as a Yorkshire solar farm gets the go-ahead.
03 Mar 2025,12 mins
01/03/25 - Farming Today This Week: NFU Conference, Climate Change Committee report, bulbs for methane, beavers, ploughing.
NFU Conference, Climate Change Committee report, bulbs for methane, beavers, ploughing.
01 Mar 2025,25 mins
28/02/25 - Trade rules, native bulbs and high beef and lamb prices
Would trade rules allow the UK to ban the import of food produced to lower standards?
28 Feb 2025,14 mins
27/02/25 Climate Change Committee report, daffodil bulbs to reduce methane, illegal waste.
Climate Change Committee calls for a transformation in agriculture.
27 Feb 2025,14 mins
26/02/25 - NFU Conference 2025: Inheritance tax, technology funding, farm profitability
Charlotte Smith reports from the NFU Conference in London.
26 Feb 2025,14 mins
25/02/25 - Land classification, UK grown tulips and driverless tractors
Why land classification in England is decades out of date, according to a new report.
25 Feb 2025,14 mins
24/02/25 Avian flu vaccines; bulb growing in Cornwall
Avian flu - the on farm impact and the science of vaccines, and Cornish daffodil picking.
24 Feb 2025,12 mins
22/02/25 - Farming Today This Week: Peat and climate change, bottom trawling, inheritance tax
Charlotte Smith brings you the week's rural news.
22 Feb 2025,25 mins
21/02/25 Solar wildlife, Scottish land use strategy, regenerative agriculture.
Solar farms managed for nature prove better for birds than intensive arable report says.
21 Feb 2025,14 mins
20/02/25 Land Use and solar development, food prices
How would a Land Use Framework affect big solar developments? We report on one in Norfolk.
20 Feb 2025,14 mins
19/02/2025 - Inheritance tax row, bottom trawling in MPAs and NI Land Use Framework
The Treasury 'shuts the door' on changes to inheritance tax plans for farms.
19 Feb 2025,14 mins
18/02/2025 - UK peatlands at risk, agroforestry tree guide and competing land use
The majority of UK peatlands could be at risk of drying out because of climate change.
18 Feb 2025,14 mins
170225: Agriculture Funding, Land Use, Punjabi Farm
Agriculture funding, land use, Punjabi farm film.
17 Feb 2025,12 mins
15/02/25 - Farming Today This Week: Inheritance Tax Special
Charlotte Smith is joined by a panel of guests to discuss inheritance tax on farms
15 Feb 2025,25 mins
14/02/25 Prime Minster and a tractor protest, the global effect of pesticides on nature, farmers' choir in Northern Ireland
Pesticides are killing plants, insects and animals that they're not aiming to control.
14 Feb 2025,14 mins
13/02/2025 - Farmers say the latest measures to combat bird flu don't go far enough, as cases rise in wild birds and poultry
New bird flu restrictions introduced; some farmers want the Government to go further.
13 Feb 2025,14 mins
12/02/25 Farm minister at Norfolk Show, rural foodbanks, deer and woodland.
Farm Minister holds the government's line on tax at a conference for Norfolk farmers.
12 Feb 2025,14 mins
11/02/25 - Inheritance tax protest and farming mental health
We report from the latest tractor rally in London in opposition to inheritance tax changes
11 Feb 2025,14 mins
10/02/25 - Animal protein in livestock feed, hare coursing and community care
Should meat be allowed in some animal feed? The government consults.
10 Feb 2025,12 mins
08/02/25 Farming Today This Week: illegal meat imports, call for bird flu housing order, NFUS report on inappropriate language
MPs are told German animal products entered UK despite foot and mouth import ban.
08 Feb 2025,25 mins
07/02/2025
An internal report highlights inappropriate language at NFU Scotland meetings.
07 Feb 2025,14 mins
06/02/25 - Call for countrywide bird flu housing order, inheritance tax uncertainty for Scottish farm tenants, food preparedness
Egg producers want their chickens ordered inside to protect them from bird flu.
06 Feb 2025,14 mins
05/02/25 - Illegal meat imports, council farms and plant nutrients
MPs are told animal products from Germany entered the UK despite an import ban.
05 Feb 2025,14 mins
04/02/25 - UK-EU trade relations, the Rock Review, Breckland soils
What could a 'reset' in the UK-EU relationship mean for food and farming?
04 Feb 2025,14 mins
03/02/25 - Tenant farmers, silage competition, slow fashion
We talk tenant farmers and prize-winning silage.
03 Feb 2025,12 mins