Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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23/05/25 - Vet meds, octopuses off Devon, Welsh bTB policy
Fears for the continued supply of veterinary medicine to Northern Ireland.
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22/05/25 - Border control posts dubbed the "white elephants of Brexit", seed potato trade, bovine TB in Northern Ireland
Have the millions of pounds spent on border posts been a waste of taxpayers' money?
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21/05/2025 The UK-EU deal, badger vaccination, Scottish climate targets
Could the UK-EU deal lead to newly set-up border control facilities being shut down?
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20/05/2025 - The UK-EU Summit agreements, the impact of bovine TB
What will the UK-EU Summit agreements mean for food, farming and fishing?
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19/05/25 Summit to 'reset' trading between EU and UK. Bovine TB.
The Cornish fishermen who say the EU UK summit to reset relations comes too late.
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17/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: US Agriculture Secretary, chlorine chicken, call for inheritance tax pause, Balmoral Show
US Agriculture Secretary visits and MPs call for a delay to inheritance tax on farms.
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16/05/25 -The Balmoral Show
Helen Mark reports from the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland.
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15/05/2025 Chlorine-washed chicken, turf farm, poultry housing order lifted
Chlorine-washed chicken: US agriculture secretary says it’s a myth. Is it?
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14/05/25 US Agriculture Secretary in UK. Grazing system.
US Agriculture Secretary visits UK to talk about new trade deal.
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13/05/25 - SFI update, herbal leys and deep soil carbon testing
A Government error means 1000s of farmers could now get payments they thought they'd lost.
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12/05/25 - Ash dieback, viticulture and spring grass growth
The tree disease ash dieback has been less devastating than initially feared.
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10/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: India and US trade agreements and their impacts on agriculture, land girls, seed potatoes
Lamb to India and beef to the US - we discuss new trade agreements and agriculture.
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9/5/2025 UK trade deal with USA and what it means for British farmers
The UK US trade deal and what it means for British farmers.
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080525: rural homelessness, bugs, potatoes, Land Girls
Rural homelessness, bugs, potatoes, Land Girls.
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07/05/25 - India Trade Deal, gene edited potatoes and green finance
A new trade deal with India could be good news for UK farmers.
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6/5/2025 Drought warnings in Scotland, seed potatoes, asparagus
Scottish farmers warned to prepare for possible summer drought.
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Farming in War and Peace
How war changed farming for ever.
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03/05/2025 Farming Today This Week: sandeel ruling, vets call for ban on farrowing crates, offshore wind farm, pulses
EU court rules on challenge to the sandeel fishing ban.
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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.
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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.
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30/4/25 Welsh community food strategy, British-grown pulses, biostimulant for wheat
New community food strategy for Wales.
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29/4/25 Energy infrastructure, growing pulses for animal feed, horticulture report
Comparing energy infrastructure: underground cables cost 4.5 times more than pylons.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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23/04/2025 - price wars, bovine TB, agroforestry
Supermarket price war, agroforestry, bovine TB.
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The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry
What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?
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Exploring a sea of glass at Lea Valley
A special edition reports from the salad growing glasshouses of the Lea Valley.
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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.