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10/11/26 Food waste, regen root veg, school milk.

Nov 10, 202614 min

09/11/26 Midges and bluetongue; COP31 food & farming; root veg.

Nov 9, 202612 min

07/11/26 Farming Today This Week: Bovine TB strategy; UK-EU Trade deal; regional mayors; farm reservoirs; bullrushes.

Nov 7, 202625 min

06/11/26 Mayors in rural areas, record October sunshine, recharging chalk aquifers

Nov 6, 202614 min

05/11/26 New bovine TB strategy, smart ponds, investment in ag tech

Nov 5, 202613 min

04/11/26 UK-EU trade deal and what it will mean for food producers. Farm reservoirs and water management.

Nov 4, 202614 min

03/11/26 Farm reservoirs, rainwater harvesting, quinoa.

Nov 3, 202614 min

02/11/2026 Water management, milk price cut

Nov 2, 202611 min

31/10/2026: Aphids, Rothbury Estate, Caged Hens, Pests

Oct 31, 202624 min

30/10/26 Caged hens, Rothbury Estate, mole trapping

Oct 30, 202613 min

29/10/2026: Aphids, Laser bird scarer, Budget reaction

Oct 29, 202614 min

28102026: Budget asks; EFRA committee; Pest control

Oct 28, 202613 min

27/10/2026: CO2 Consultation, Solar Robot Weeder; Rat Catcher

Oct 27, 202613 min

26/10/26 Consultation to end painful pig slaughter, pest control, farmers' choir

Oct 26, 202611 min

Farming Today This Week 24/10/26 Wildfires; agri-environment schemes; orchards & agroforestry; pumpkins; winter strawberries.

Oct 24, 202624 min

23/10/26 Wild fire summit, Farming for the Future award winner, picking plums by rowing boat

Oct 23, 202613 min

22/10/26 Grazing and arable, apples and agroforestry, BBC Food & Farming Awards

Oct 22, 202614 min

21/10/26 Wildfires report, pear harvest, planting plans

Oct 21, 202613 min

20/10/26 Abattoirs, strawberry glut, apples and other top fruit

Oct 20, 202614 min

19/10/26 Defra secretary on organic farming and sustainable farming incentive; cider apples

Oct 19, 202611 min

17/10/26 Farming Today This Week: The Future of Farming

Oct 17, 202625 min

16/10/26 What will a farmer be?

Oct 16, 202613 min

15/10/26 Succession

Oct 15, 202613 min

14/10/26 Homegrown

Oct 14, 202613 min

13/10/26 Tech

Oct 13, 202613 min

12/10/26 Land Use

Oct 12, 202613 min

10/10/2026: Harvest, Bird flu, Farm boundaries

Oct 10, 202624 min

09/10/26 Drought aftermath, Cornish hedges, SNP conference, AI and farming

Oct 9, 202613 min

08/10/2926: Fly tipping, History of barbed wire, Energy from heat

Oct 8, 202614 min

07/10/26 Sugar beet, flagstone walls, dairy show.

Oct 7, 202613 min

06/10/26 Rural connectivity, dry stone walls, Conservative party conference.

Oct 6, 202613 min

05/10/26 Pig industry in crisis, beating the bounds, Green Party conference

Oct 5, 202611 min

Farming Today This Week: food industry whistleblowers, red diesel, disease resilience, apprenticeships, Shetland wool, demo farm

Oct 3, 202625 min

02/10/26 Food industry climate whistleblowers, farm apprenticeships, Plaid Cymru conference

Oct 2, 202614 min

01/10/26 Red diesel; Labour party conference; getting into farming; the sound of worms.

Oct 1, 202614 min

30/09/26 Nitrogen in soil, organic veg scheme, student bursaries.

Sep 30, 202613 min

29/09/2026: Precision breeding, Community farm, Mentoring on farm

Sep 29, 202614 min

28/09/2026: Disease resilience, getting young people into agriculture

Sep 28, 202612 min

26/09/26 Farming Today This Week: 'shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process; pulses; heating oil costs

Sep 26, 202624 min

25/09/2026: Heating oil costs, Bluetongue lessons, Beans as chicken feed

Sep 25, 202614 min

24/09/26 'Shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process, British baked beans

Sep 24, 202614 min

23/09/2026: Bluetongue, Defra funding, Growing pulses

Sep 23, 202614 min

22/09/26 Potato yields, Pulse growing

Sep 22, 202614 min

21/09/2026 Pulses, SFI 'haves and have-nots', agricultural advisor training

Sep 21, 202611 min

19/09/2026 The role of farming co-ops, Shepherd protests in Bucharest, International sheep dog trials

Sep 19, 202624 min

18/09/2026: Lib Dem Party Conference, Glutinous Snails, BBC Awards finalists, The Farmers Wife on stage.

Sep 18, 202613 min

17/09/26 Farmer protests in Romania, sheedog trials, Scottish arable cooperative.

Sep 17, 202614 min

16/09/26 Young trees in drought, wildfires, agricultural cooperative.

Sep 16, 202614 min

15.09.26 Calls for a rural reset, how to harvest small scale arable, dairy co-operative.

Sep 15, 202613 min

14/09/26 Calls for more farm co-ops, Hereford cattle dispute, flax and hemp

Sep 14, 202611 min