25/06/2026 The Farming Roadmap, emissions from agriculture, pigs in the heat
'The most significant moment for English agriculture since the Second World War'; that's the Government's claim for their Farming Roadmap wh...
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20 of 74 episodes24/06/2026 Agritourism - Aberdeen hosts the first global conference of its kind
Aberdeen is hosting the first global agritourism conference. It's the brainchild of Caroline Millar who runs an agritourism business from he...
23/06/2026: Fighting wildfires, training sheep shearers, from hill farm to heritage events
The Met Office has issued a rare red 'extreme heat’ warning for parts of southern England, the Midlands and southern Wales for tomorrow and...
22/06/26 Agri-tourism, Scottish abattoir costs, seaweed cattle feed to reduce methane
Why more farmers are opening their gates to the public - all week we're looking at agri-tourism. Scientists across the world are investigati...
20/06/26 - Royal Highland Show, Scottish farming policy and South West octopus bloom
The Royal Highland Show hopes to welcome 200,000 visitors across four days. In this programme we report from the show, hearing farmers' view...
15/06/26 Octopus bloom, Scottish organic farming
An emergency by-law has been passed in Cornwall, to restrict the number of boats coming in to take advantage of the ongoing bloom of octopus...
17/06/26 Abattoir charges, pheasants and insects, Scottish farming with nature.
The owner of one of the last remaining abattoirs in the south east of England has said he's furious after a court ruled that the food regula...
16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) says three rare heathland birds are starting to recover. Its heathland bird survey - the first for 2...
13/06/26 Farming Today This Week
The budget for the scheme which pays England's farmers for environmental work is revealed - but is it enough? With production costs rising f...
12/06/26 Sustainable Farming Incentive, Cereal farming in Cumbria
The Department for Envrionment Food and Rural Affairs has announced how much money it’s making available to farmers in England through the S...
10/06/26 New bovine TB strategy for England, cereals
A cattle vaccine to protect livestock from bovine TB could be in use on farms in England by 2030. That's one of the aims outlined in a new s...
09/06/26 Flood funding, cattle cull, cereals
Somerset's to get an extra £50m investment to help the county deal with flooding. The government is giving the money to the county council w...
08/06/26 Brown or white eggs? The outlook for cereal farmers
How do you like your eggs? Brown or white? Sainsbury's has announced it's switching to white eggs for environmental reasons. With high price...
06/06/26 - Farming Today This Week: Dartmoor ponies, water voles and land-based jobs
Dartmoor is famous for its semi-wild hill ponies that roam across the moorland. But concerns have been raised by the Dartmoor Hill Pony Asso...
05/06/26 Dartmoor ponies, upland economics, Open Farm Sunday
Concerns have been raised that new agri-environment schemes will require such a steep drop in the numbers of grazing livestock that 90% of D...
04/06/26 High Court rules the Food Standards Agency overcharged abattoirs, hydropower funding, upland farmer groups
A judgement from the High Court yesterday ruled that the Food Standards Agency has been 'unlawfully' charging abattoirs too much and that it...
03/06/26 EU trade agreement, peat restoration and water voles, Scottish uplands
The government has published fresh guidance for farmers and food businesses to help them prepare for the new sanitary and phytosanitary - or...
02/06/26 Rural skills gap, upland farming in Wales, Future Countryside.
A new report says there should be plenty of opportunities for young people to take up training and jobs in land-based work - but there's a '...
01/06/26 Cost of wildfires, methane from sheep, upland farming
The latest analysis of wildfires shows that last year the UK recorded its highest burned area on record, including the country's first docum...
30/05/26 - Farming Today This Week: pig supply chain problems, hot weather impacts and singing farmers
Its been a record breakingly hot week across much, though not all, of the UK, and that's brought probems for farmers, with crops struggling...