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25/07/26 Farming Today This Week: What's the best use of land in Wales?
Charlotte Smith presents a panel discussion programme at the Royal Welsh Show, asking 'what's the best use of land in Wales?' With the Cabinet Ministe...
24/07/26: Drought declared in North Wales, investing in water security, river pollution in Pembrokeshire.
July is on course to be the driest in Wales for almost 190 years. It means that North Wales and the Upper Severn catchment are the first areas in the...
23/07/26 Royal Welsh Show
Charlotte Smith is at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells. She meets the Welsh Government's Cabinet Member for Rural Resilience and Sust...
22/07/26 Sugar beet factory closing, new Defra secretaryfarm fires, , oil seed rape harvest, hill farming in Wales
British Sugar's factory at Cantley in the Norfolk Broads is to close, in February next year. Hundreds of farmers will now have to transport their crop...
21/07/26 Farm fatalities, dry potatoes, Welsh farm subsidies, Lake District guide
Farming has one of the worst fatality rates of any industry sector in the UK and new research suggests the true number of health and safety incidents...
20/06/26: Milk price glimmers, Andy Burnham's rural in-tray, Welsh farming policy.
Heatwave conditions are particularly testing for dairy cows, and dairy farmers. Figures from the industry body, the AHDB, showed a 34 million litre re...
18/07/26 Farming Today This Week: Wildfires, hot harvest, the Great Yorkshire Show
Tinderbox conditions see wildfires across the country and farmers harvesting at night to avoid the heat.
We visit the Great Yorkshire Show, the...
17/07/26 The Great Yorkshire Show
Farmers from across the UK have come to Harrogate to show off their livestock at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate. We hear from champion sheep br...
16/07/26 'Critical situation' for chicken site as water restricted, farm payments for wildlife, the price of chocolate
The poultry industry is calling for animal welfare and food production to be prioritised, as pressure increases on water supplies. This follows the cl...
15/07/26 New UK Swiss trade deal, Farming in Protected Landscapes grants, deer control in Loch Lomond
A new trade deal is signed with Switzerland: it's welcomed by farmers, but will it go any way to combat a significant downturn in food and drink expor...
14/07/26 Wildfires on farms, England's environmental farm payments
Tinderbox conditions on fellsides and moorland have led to wildfires across the country. We hear from farmers in the centre of the blaze.
This w...
13/07/26 Support for Scottish pig farmers, English farm policy, heat affecting milk yields
Pig farmers in Scotland have welcomed a £2m emergency support package from the Holyrood Government, but say it's not enough to stop them losing money....
Farming Today This Week 11/07/2026 Crops in a mine, hot livestock, agriculture & water report, scallops, school farm visits.
How practical would it be to grow our food underground? It’s a question being investigated by researchers at the University of Shefffield who are grow...
10/07/26 Calls to ban bottom trawling to protect dolphins, Wimbledon strawberries
Calls for wider bans on fishing with heavy gear that drags along the seabed to protect dolphins and porpoises.
We visit Hugh Lowe Farms in Kent,...
09/07/26 Growing crops in a mine, scallop fishing, RHS Badminton
How practical would it be to grow our food underground? It’s a question being investigated by researchers at the University of Shefffield who are grow...
08/07/2026 Environment Agency agriculture & water report, fishing visas, animal health
The Environment Agency has produced its first ever annual report into agriculture and water in England. It takes data from the last five years, to ass...
07/07/2026 Rehydrating dry grain, fishing resilience, school farm visits.
It seems we might have started a particular conversation about the very dry harvest in parts of the country. We spoke to a farmer, whose feed barley w...
06/07/2026 Commoners can apply for government schemes, fishing, fertiliser
Farmers who graze their livestock on what’s called Common Land in England were being excluded from the government’s new farming environmental support...
04/07/26 Farming Today This Week: Groundswell regenerative agriculture, the Environment Secretary on the 25 year Farming Roadmap
Ten years of the regenerative farming festival Groundswell - we talk to farmers who were at the first event about how it's changed the way the farm.
02/07/26 Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture 2026
Ten years of the regenerative farming festival Groundswell - we talk to farmers who were at the first event about how it's changed the way the farm.
03/07/2026 Farming roadmap, food security, protecting soils
We speak to the Environment Secretary about the government's new farming roadmap for England. It's 25 year plan and ministers say it'll give farmers t...
01/07/2026 Muirburn, grain that's too dry, intercropping
A new code of practice for the controlled burning of moorland in Scotland, which was due to be published on 1st July is being delayed, amid protests...
30/06/26 Scottish organic farmed salmon, soil health, water management
The organic certification body, the Soil Association, is warning it may withdraw from the farmed salmon sector unless higher standards are met. The o...
29/06/26 Water resilience on farms, rural place names, soil
Calls for more government action to protect water supplies for farming.
A series of workshops are taking place across Wales this year to collect...
27/06/26: Farming in the heat, England's Farming Roadmap, global agritourism.
This week farmers have coped with heavy thundery rain and record breaking temperatures. We hear from a pig farmer keeping his stock cool, a livestock...
26/06/26 NI to miss its environmental targets, farming in the heatwave, farm campsite
Northern Ireland is 'largely' missing the targets in its own Environmental Improvement Plan. A report from the environment watchdog, the Office for En...
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 which has ju...
24/06/2026 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 her family f...
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 Thursday w...
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 investigating w...
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' views on the S...
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 on the so...
19/06/26 The Royal Highland Show and Scottish Government plans to cap prices on some essential foods.
Around 200,000 visitors will be visiting The Royal Highland Show this week. Farmers and growers will be showcasing their produce at the Royal Highland...
18/06/26 Change of Defra Farming Minister, Scottish greening policy, connected agri-tech
After Farming Minister Angela Eagle’s reshuffling out of DEFRA, we hear why the farming industry really doesn’t like ministerial churn.
We're lo...
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 regulator has be...
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 20 years -...
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 follo...
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 Sustainable...
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 strategy fo...
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 who will wo...