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Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Radio 4,29 episodes

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Farming Today This Week 10/01/26: The Oxford farming conferences
We hear from the Defra Secretary and Charlotte Church at the Oxford farming conferences.
10 Jan 2026,25 mins
09/01/26 Politics, protests and Charlotte Church at the Oxford Farming Conferences
We hear from the Defra Secretary and Charlotte Church at the Oxford Farming Conferences.
09 Jan 2026,14 mins
The opening of Oxford Farming Conference 2026
The Oxford Farming Conference 2026.
08 Jan 2026,14 mins
07/01/26 Cereals, solar farms, farmer wellbeing.
Arable farmers question whether growing cereals is worth the effort.
07 Jan 2026,14 mins
06/01/26 Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme, row over Scottish agri-environment policy, climate resilience.
Wales's new Sustainable Farming Scheme comes into force.
06 Jan 2026,14 mins
05/01/26 Growing resilience and transforming our farming system, raw milk vending
We preview the Oxford farming conferences on this week.
05 Jan 2026,12 mins
03/01/26 Farming Today This Week: Farms for City Children at 50, horse-powered pints, mart tradition, 18th century farmer diary
Farms for City Children turns 50, horse-powered pints, livestock mart traditions
03 Jan 2026,25 mins
02/01/26 Wildlife or Pest? The Wild Goats of Langholm Moor
Wild goats: culling, conservation and controversy.
02 Jan 2026,14 mins
01/01/26 Isaac Fletcher's Farming Diaries
The farming diaries of an 18th-century yeoman farmer.
01 Jan 2026,14 mins
31/12/25 Cider Apple DNA
How DNA testing is unlocking the secrets of historic cider orchards.
31 Dec 2025,14 mins
30/12/25 The Luck Penny
The luck penny tradition still practised at livestock marts in Northern Ireland.
30 Dec 2025,14 mins
The Longhorns of Salisbury Plain
The Longhorn cattle of Salisbury Plain.
29 Dec 2025,12 mins
27/12/26: Anna Hill's 30 years on Farming Today
Anna Hill discusses her 30 years as a presenter of Farming Today with Charlotte Smith.
27 Dec 2025,25 mins
Horse-powered Pint
An Oxfordshire brewery using heavy horses to deliver beer.
26 Dec 2025,14 mins
25/12/25 Farms for City Children - 50 years of Michael & Clare Morpurgo's charity.
Children's author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare mark 50 years of their farm charity.
25 Dec 2025,14 mins
24/12/25 The Ceremony of the Christmas Cheeses
Chelsea Pensioners receive their traditional Christmas present from the UK dairy industry.
24 Dec 2025,14 mins
Trail hunting ban, Christmas trees, Combating rural loneliness at Christmas
Could this year's Boxing Day hunt meets be the last, with a ban on trail hunting proposed?
23 Dec 2025,14 mins
22/12/25 Government animal welfare reforms, reaction to the Farm Profitability Review
Trail hunting and caged hens are to go in a new government animal welfare strategy.
22 Dec 2025,12 mins
20/12/25 Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings
Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings.
20 Dec 2025,25 mins
19/12/25 Farm profitability review, charcuterie, mill stones
Major changes needed to make farming profitable - we hear from Baroness Batters.
19 Dec 2025,14 mins
18/12/25 Loss leaders, small ducks, historic houses
Loss leader veg, small ducks, historic houses.
18 Dec 2025,14 mins
17/12/2025 Planning reforms and the environment, rural churches.
Planning reforms announced - what will they mean for the countryside and the environment?
17 Dec 2025,14 mins
16/12/2025 MPs challenge prime minister about inheritance tax, planning and green belt, restoring rural buildings
Prime minister is grilled by his own MPs about the impact of inheritance tax on farmers.
16 Dec 2025,14 mins
EU tractor protest, hill farm nature reserve, heritage buildings in the countryside
European farmers are travelling to Brussels for a protest over CAP and trade deals.
15 Dec 2025,12 mins
13/12/25 Farming Today This Week: turkeys; rural roads; off-grid communities; African swine fever; rare breed pigs.
Turkeys; rural road deaths; off-grid communities; African swine fever; rare breed pigs.
13 Dec 2025,25 mins
12/12/25 Abattoirs, Farm sitters, Welsh rare breeds
Abattoirs, farm sitters, Welsh rare breeds.
12 Dec 2025,14 mins
The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry
What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?
22 Apr 2025,13 mins
Foot and mouth personal meat import ban, gearing up for sheep shearing as overseas shearer visas granted
Travellers banned from bringing meat from the EU into the UK, due to Foot and Mouth risk.
15 Apr 2025,13 mins
12/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Salmon Farming, Wildfire and Trade
Does the future of salmon farming lie in deeper water?
12 Apr 2025,24 mins