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    10/10/25: Illegal waste dumping in the countryside, Plaid Cymru, HS2 compulsory purchases

    The increasing amounts of waste dumped in the countryside and how to tackle it.

  2. 09/10/25 Trump's aid package for soyabean farmers, welfare for farmed insects, hare coursing

    President Trump plans to bail out soyabean farmers.

  3. 08/10/25: Rive Wye, rural crime, new nature reserve

    River Wye pollution, rural crime, new nature reserve.

  4. 07/10/25: Skilled workers visas, Neigh-bourhood Watch, British Wool anniversary.

    Dairy farmers in Scotland say changing skilled worker visas could leave them shortstaffed.

  5. 06/10/25: Rural policing, grape harvest, Conservative Party conference

    Is rural crime falling off the radar in some police force areas?

  6. Farming Today This Week: illegal meat, rural poverty, bluetongue, livestock marts, acorns and pigs

    Port health authorities say the amount of illegal meat smuggled into the UK is escalating.

  7. 03/10/25 Rural poverty, Green Party conference, orange markets

    Report finds the way the government measures poverty doesn鈥檛 work for rural communities.

  8. 02/10/2025 Cuts to milk price, bluetongue virus and food security

    Cuts to the price farmers get for milk.

  9. 01/10/2025: Illegal meat at Dover, farm wages, economic impact of Wales's environment scheme

    Twenty tonnes of illegal meat have been intercepted at Dover in September.

  10. 30/09/2025: Who let the pigs out? Heat pump 'fixation'? Mart socialising

    The ancient tradition with a vital role in a bumper year for acorns.

  11. 29/09/25: Prime Minister's farming priority, Armagh Bramleys, livestock markets

    The Prime Minister says improving profits is his priority for farming.

  12. 27/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bumper harvest of autumn fruits, cybersecurity, eating seasonally

    How nervous are the major food retailers about cyber hackers?

  13. 26/09/25: Cybersecurity, historic plums, tenant farming commissioner, Autumn arable progress

    How nervous are the major food retailers about the risk of a cyber attack?

  14. 25/09/25 Bumper crop of damsons, dahlias, water management workshop

    The baking heat has had a beneficial impact on this year's damsons and dahlias.

  15. 24/09/25: New farmland bird stats, Corn Buntings, precision Plum growing.

    England's farmland birds are continuing to decline according to new government figures.

  16. 23/09/22: Bluetongue warning, apple harvest, farming for food and nature in Norfolk

    Farmers are being warned against complacency over Bluetongue, as we head into Autumn.

  17. 22/09/2025 Apples and pears, Lib Dem conference, planting trees by drone

    A good year for British apples, but who is planting the orchards of the future?

  18. 20/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Rivers in National Parks, Rural Services, Downpour or drought?

    Rivers in National Parks, rural health and transport, downpour or drought?

  19. 19/09/25 Rural Housing Solutions, NI Rural Politics, Transforming Food Systems

    We hear from people tackling the shortage of rural housing.

  20. 18/09/25: Drought/downpour, rural crime gang jailed, bus services

    Drought will officially stretch into the autumn but rain is the next farming challenge.

  21. 17/09/25: Rivers in National Parks, Rural Post Offices, Economics of Fishing.

    A new report claims rivers in National Parks need better protection against pollution.

  22. 16/09/25: US-UK dairy trade? Health services in rural areas.

    UK farmers warn opening the market to US dairy imports could put our industry at risk.

  23. 15/09/25 Cheesemakers unhappy with US trade deal, less money for rural services, fishing industry fears ban on bottom trawling

    British cheesemakers say they鈥檝e got a raw deal on export tariffs to the US

  24. 13/09/25: Farmland Birds, Wild Summit, Illegal Meat

    The 'chirr' of the nightjar the 'crex crex' of the corncrake: We focus on farmland birds.

  25. 12/09/2025

    The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.

  26. 11/09/2025 Corn belt farmers, seeds for future forests, bioacoustics

    American farmers and Trump's trade tariffs.

  27. 10/09/25: A reset for farming and government? Licences to burn peatland, Corncrakes on Lewis

    Could the reshuffle be an opportunity to reset relations between farmers and government?

  28. 09/09/25: More school meals using more British produce? The Nightjars of Cannock Chase

    Could extending free school meals create an opportunity for British growers?

  29. 08/09/25: Biosecurity at the borders, Forage Aid grants, farmland birds.

    MPs give their verdict on the fight against illegal meat imports to the UK.

  30. 06/09/25 Farming Today This Week: Bovine TB strategy review, rural racism, algal blooms, short straw

    Report calls for more urgency and a bigger budget to tackle TB in cattle in England.

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