Farming Today

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3197 - 16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

3197 - 16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy

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Episodes

16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy

15/06/26 Octopus bloom, Scottish organic farming

13/06/26 Farming Today This Week

12/06/26 Sustainable Farming Incentive, Cereal farming in Cumbria

10/06/26 New bovine TB strategy for England, cereals

09/06/26 Flood funding, cattle cull, cereals

08/06/26 Brown or white eggs? The outlook for cereal farmers

06/06/26 - Farming Today This Week: Dartmoor ponies, water voles and land-based jobs

05/06/26 Dartmoor ponies, upland economics, Open Farm Sunday

04/06/26 High Court rules the Food Standards Agency overcharged abattoirs, hydropower funding, upland farmer groups

03/06/26 EU trade agreement, peat restoration and water voles, Scottish uplands

02/06/26 Rural skills gap, upland farming in Wales, Future Countryside.

01/06/26 Cost of wildfires, methane from sheep, upland farming

30/05/26 - Farming Today This Week: pig supply chain problems, hot weather impacts and singing farmers

29/05/26 Water abstraction, food inflation, local food systems.

28/05/26 Rural crime, restoring signposts, Welsh food project

27/05/26 Heatwave and water shortages - the impact on farming, Scottish farm co-operative.

26/05/26 Mounting pressure for Scottish pig farmers, funding for rural churches, selling farm produce at markets

25/05/26 - The History of Crofting

23/05/26 Farming Today This Week: red diesel, Gulf trade deal, Climate Change Committee report, regen tenancies, flowers.

22/05/2026 Gulf trade deal, tax cut on red diesel, cuts to tariffs on food imports, flowers, farmers going out of business

21/05/26 Drought report, impact of Middle East war on berry growers, farm flower garden.

20/05/26 Climate Change Committee report, EU alignment, flower grower hub.

19/05/26 Pollution from moorland burning, Duchy of Cornwall regen tenancies, tulips.

18/05/26: Grow more British flowers, new hands at the wheel of Red Tractor, hare coursing crackdown