Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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13/01/26 Environmental targets, Scottish agricultural policy, goat's cheese.
Today
The government isn't on track to meet its environmental targets according to a new report.
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Farming Today This Week 10/01/26: The Oxford farming conferences
Saturday
We hear from the Defra Secretary and Charlotte Church at the Oxford farming conferences.
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09/01/26 Politics, protests and Charlotte Church at the Oxford Farming Conferences
Friday
We hear from the Defra Secretary and Charlotte Church at the Oxford Farming Conferences.
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07/01/26 Cereals, solar farms, farmer wellbeing.
Last Wednesday
Arable farmers question whether growing cereals is worth the effort.
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06/01/26 Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme, row over Scottish agri-environment policy, climate resilience.
Last Tuesday
Wales's new Sustainable Farming Scheme comes into force.
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05/01/26 Growing resilience and transforming our farming system, raw milk vending
Last Monday
We preview the Oxford farming conferences on this week.
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03/01/26 Farming Today This Week: Farms for City Children at 50, horse-powered pints, mart tradition, 18th century farmer diary
Sat 3 Jan 2026
Farms for City Children turns 50, horse-powered pints, livestock mart traditions
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02/01/26 Wildlife or Pest? The Wild Goats of Langholm Moor
Fri 2 Jan 2026
Wild goats: culling, conservation and controversy.
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01/01/26 Isaac Fletcher's Farming Diaries
New Year's Day 2026
The farming diaries of an 18th-century yeoman farmer.
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31/12/25 Cider Apple DNA
Wed 31 Dec 2025
How DNA testing is unlocking the secrets of historic cider orchards.
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30/12/25 The Luck Penny
Tue 30 Dec 2025
The luck penny tradition still practised at livestock marts in Northern Ireland.
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27/12/26: Anna Hill's 30 years on Farming Today
Sat 27 Dec 2025
Anna Hill discusses her 30 years as a presenter of Farming Today with Charlotte Smith.
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25/12/25 Farms for City Children - 50 years of Michael & Clare Morpurgo's charity.
Christmas Day 2025
Children's author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare mark 50 years of their farm charity.
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24/12/25 The Ceremony of the Christmas Cheeses
Christmas Eve 2025
Chelsea Pensioners receive their traditional Christmas present from the UK dairy industry.
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Trail hunting ban, Christmas trees, Combating rural loneliness at Christmas
Tue 23 Dec 2025
Could this year's Boxing Day hunt meets be the last, with a ban on trail hunting proposed?
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22/12/25 Government animal welfare reforms, reaction to the Farm Profitability Review
Mon 22 Dec 2025
Trail hunting and caged hens are to go in a new government animal welfare strategy.
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20/12/25 Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings.
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19/12/25 Farm profitability review, charcuterie, mill stones
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Major changes needed to make farming profitable - we hear from Baroness Batters.
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18/12/25 Loss leaders, small ducks, historic houses
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Loss leader veg, small ducks, historic houses.
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17/12/2025 Planning reforms and the environment, rural churches.
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Planning reforms announced - what will they mean for the countryside and the environment?
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16/12/2025 MPs challenge prime minister about inheritance tax, planning and green belt, restoring rural buildings
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Prime minister is grilled by his own MPs about the impact of inheritance tax on farmers.
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EU tractor protest, hill farm nature reserve, heritage buildings in the countryside
Mon 15 Dec 2025
European farmers are travelling to Brussels for a protest over CAP and trade deals.
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The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry
Tue 22 Apr 2025
What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?
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Foot and mouth personal meat import ban, gearing up for sheep shearing as overseas shearer visas granted
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Travellers banned from bringing meat from the EU into the UK, due to Foot and Mouth risk.
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12/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Salmon Farming, Wildfire and Trade
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Does the future of salmon farming lie in deeper water?
