Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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24/04/2025 Warning that changes to planning bill threatens nature; calls for a rare breeds ministerial roundtable, silvopasture
Yesterday
Warnings that new plans to speed up planning threaten both developers and nature.
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The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry
Tuesday
What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?
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19/04/25 Farming Today This Week: wildfires, British farm standards, EU meat imports ban, vertical farms, sheep shearing
Last Saturday
A ban on bringing meat and dairy home from EU holidays to protect against foot and mouth.
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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?
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10/04/2025 Wildfires and managing moorland, farmed salmon, early asparagus
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Could relaxing environmental rules help avoid wildfires?
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09/04/25 Funding for checks at the border, salmon farming
Wed 9 Apr 2025
Farmers say the government isn't spending enough on stopping illegal meat imports.
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Scottish Farm Incomes, US Trade Red Lines, Farmed Trout
Tue 8 Apr 2025
Latest figures show a 50% drop in the average Scottish farm income.
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05/04/25 Farming Today This Week: Trump's trade tariffs; Island life - from housing and ferries to dairy farming; Wildfires
Sat 5 Apr 2025
Trump's trade tariffs and what it means for producers.
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04/04/2025 Tariffs and global food trade, Isles of Scilly flowers, university farm sell-off
Fri 4 Apr 2025
What impact will new US tariffs have on international food and farming trade?
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03/04/25 Extreme risk of wildfires, review of environmental regulations, Rathlin Island, hunting turtle doves
Thu 3 Apr 2025
Warnings of extreme risk of wildfires in Scotland.
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02/04/25 Housing shortages in Scottish islands, Farming Minister quizzed on farm support, tree planting.
Wed 2 Apr 2025
Housing shortages on the Scottish islands and how they affect young people.
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01/04/25 Review of agricultural pollution rules in Wales, ban on burning peat, island ferries
Tue 1 Apr 2025
An independent review into rules around muck in Wales.
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31/03/25 Lifeline for Guernsey dairy farmers, wartime farm survey, turtle dove conservation
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Guernsey dairy farmers welcome an increase in the support they receive from government.
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29/03/25 Farming Today This Week: Bird flu in a sheep; Egg production; Red Tractor review; Chancellor's spring statement.
Sat 29 Mar 2025
First case of avian flu found in a sheep.
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28/03/25 Investigation into supply chain arbitration, sexing chicks in eggs, small island dairy
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Has the system that was supposed to ensure fairness in the food supply chain failed?
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27/03/25 Chancellor's spring statement, pullets, nitrogen inquiry.
Thu 27 Mar 2025
The chancellor's spring statement - what's in it for the rural economy?
