18/09/2026: Lib Dem Party Conference, Glutinous Snails, BBC Awards finalists, The Farmers Wife on stage.
Party conference season is underway and so we'll be catching up with the rural and farming policies of the main parties around the UK over t...
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20 of 147 episodes17/09/26 Farmer protests in Romania, sheedog trials, Scottish arable cooperative.
There have been violent clashes during big farmer protests in Romania. Thousands of shepherds have been demonstrating in the capital Buchare...
16/09/26 Young trees in drought, wildfires, agricultural cooperative.
Farmers have been assessing the damage done by the summer's severe drought, but it's not just low crop yields they've had to face. Woodlands...
15.09.26 Calls for a rural reset, how to harvest small scale arable, dairy co-operative.
The former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett has told the government to 'reset' it's rural policy, and 'learn from its mistakes' with inh...
14/09/26 Calls for more farm co-ops, Hereford cattle dispute, flax and hemp
We hear calls for more ‘cooperative working’, to give farmers a louder voice in the food supply chain. When is a Hereford cow not a Hereford...
Farming Today This Week 12/09/26 Bluetongue disease, Kelso Ram Sales, sheep rustling, farming without fossil fuels, Wild Summit.
The number of bluetongue cases since the first of July in the UK has now topped a thousand. That’s nearly three times the number of positive...
11/09/26 Bluetongue disease, sheep rustling, Kelso sheep sales
The number of bluetongue cases since the first of July in the UK has now topped a thousand. That’s nearly three times the number of positive...
10/09/26 Sustainable dairy farming; Falkland salmon; tractor fuel from willow.
UK dairy cows produce around 15 billion litres of milk every year and each litre comes with an environmental cost: methane and greenhouse ga...
09/09/2026 UK's self-sufficiency in food; bio-gas production on farm; Shetland's food.
Britain is producing less food now than 30 years ago, with lower levels of self sufficiency in 10 out of 11 key food stuffs grown by UK farm...
08/09/2026: Spy in the tractor cab? Surrey hops, The Experimental Farmer
A Westminster think tank has warned that internet-connected technology has the potential to be used by China to spy on the UK food system. T...
07/09/26 Government call for evidence on gamebirds, farming without oil
Every year, huge numbers of pheasant and partridge are raised across the UK for shoots, with around 40 million released into the countryside...
Farming Today This Week 05/09/26 Bluetongue; food security; data centres; river DNA testing; corncrakes; dung beetle vet.
As the UK experiences its worst ever outbreak of the livestock disease bluetongue, we find out how government vets and scientists are coping...
04/09/26 National Audit Office report on food security resilience, corncrakes, late strawberries
How well prepared are we for a major threat to our food security? Not quite well enough, according to the National Audit Office, which is pu...
03/09/2026 Scientists dealing with bluetongue, Lough Neagh sampling, Normandy food producers.
As the UK experiences its worst ever outbreak of the livestock disease bluetongue, we find out how government vets and scientists are coping...
02/09/2926 Data centres on farmland, harvest in Uist, River Tweed.
The many pressures on land use are coming into sharper focus in Scotland where opposition is growing to a series of large AI data centres pl...
01/09/26 Crisis loans, pasture for drought resilience, river DNA testing
Farming groups from around the country are pressing for what they are calling 'a government-backed, interest-free Keep Britain Growing Loan'...
31/08/2026: Wildlife corridors
Anna Hill travels on a safari with a difference, across North Norfolk, to discover how dozens of farmers have joined together to create conn...
29/08/2026: bluetongue, future crops, lavender farm
With the livestock disease bluetongue still spreading across the UK, we speak to a Dutch vet about how they coped with a massive outbreak th...
28/08/26 Licensing firearms and shotguns, lavender in the Lakes, gene-edited salad crops
The system for licensing firearms and shotguns in England and Wales is not fit for purpose and should be replaced to ensure public safety. T...
27/08/2026: Beef imports, Miscanthus
Farmers in the UK are urging the government to ban imports of beef from Brazil amid fears that it's not produced to the same high standard....