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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 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.

  2. 24/12/25 The Ceremony of the Christmas Cheeses

    Chelsea Pensioners receive their traditional Christmas present from the UK dairy industry.

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. 20/12/25 Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings

    Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings.

  6. 19/12/25 Farm profitability review, charcuterie, mill stones

    Major changes needed to make farming profitable - we hear from Baroness Batters.

  7. 18/12/25 Loss leaders, small ducks, historic houses

    Loss leader veg, small ducks, historic houses.

  8. 17/12/2025 Planning reforms and the environment, rural churches.

    Planning reforms announced - what will they mean for the countryside and the environment?

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 12/12/25 Abattoirs, Farm sitters, Welsh rare breeds

    Abattoirs, farm sitters, Welsh rare breeds.

  13. 11/12/25 Colorado Beetle, fairness in arable supply chain, aid for US farmers, rare breed pigs

    Colorado Beetle is officially eradicated from the UK.

  14. 10/12/25 Swine fever, Turkeys, Rare breeds

    Swine fever, Christmas turkeys, rare breeds.

  15. 09/12/25 Off grid communities, rural road deaths, drought, Lincoln Longwool sheep.

    Thousands of people not connected to National Grid - charity says they should have help.

  16. 08/12/25 Rare breeds, sprout harvest, vets encouraging farmers to visit the doctor

    Calls for more support for the UK's rare breeds.

  17. 06/12/25 Farming Today This Week: rural traditions supply chain adjudicator, drought, bluetongue, swine fever, winter jobs

    Rural traditions, dairy adjudicator, bluetongue, African swine fever, drought, winter jobs

  18. 05/12/25 Rural traditions, Adjudicator, Livestock

    Rural traditions, dairy adjudicator, winter livestock jobs.

  19. 04/12/25 Inheritance Tax, Drought, Cider

    Inheritance tax and MPs, drought cost and cider orchard care.

  20. 03/12/25: Sugar cane, Battery storage, Vintage wagons

    Sugar cane imports, battery storage, vintage wagon auction.

  21. 02/12/2025 African swine fever, Bluetongue, Ethical dairy

    African swine fever in Spain, bluetongue in Northern Ireland, ethical dairy.

  22. 01/12/25 Government's environmental improvement plan, water management and flooding, hedge laying

    Government publishes its revised environmental improvement plan.

  23. 29/11/25 Farming Today This Week: Farmer protests over the budget and inheritance tax, agriculture course suspended, dairy

    Farmer protest in London as the chancellor delivered her budget.

  24. 28/11/25 Rural depopulation, organic dairy, potato waste skin care, reservoir farm

    Why many residents are considering leaving Scotland's islands and rural areas.

  25. 27/11/2025 Budget and inheritance tax, farmer protest

    Farmers protest in London as the chancellor delivers her budget.

  26. 26/11/25 Planning bill and environmental protections, livestock genetics, robotic dairy.

    Conservationists accuse the government of turning its back on nature in new planning bill.

  27. 25/11/25 University agriculture courses, bird flu in Wales, dairy farm succession.

    The University of Nottingham plans to close its agriculture courses.

  28. 24/11/25: Dairy rollercoaster, English farm business incomes, Isle of Man vets

    Trouble ahead as the dairy farming rollercoaster heads downwards?

  29. 22/11/25 Farming Today This Week: Defra Secretary on agri-environment schemes, farm business income, COP, prison farm

    England's biggest agri-environment scheme to be relaunched next year.

  30. 21/11/25 Defra secretary at CLA conference, farm business income, COP and agriculture, prison farm.

    England's biggest agri-environment scheme to be relaunched next year says Defra secretary.

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