The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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16/01/21 Farming Today This Week: EU exports, Emergency Sugar Beet Pesticides, Sea Shanties
The Scottish Government is calling on Westminster to pay compensation to food companies caught up in what it...
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15/01/21 Salmon not going to the EU, Pigs in China, Lockdown diary
The Scottish Government is demanding compensation from Westminster for food companies caught up in what it calls the...
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14/01/21: Office for Environmental Protection, Sugar beet treatment, African locusts
Leaving the EU means it’s all change for the legal framework we use to protect the environment. In England...
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The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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12/01/21 Emergency sugar beet pesticides, Indian farmer protests
Conservationists angry with a Government decision to allow sugar beet growers to use a neonicotinoid pesticide which...
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11/01/21 Stranded Sheep, US Trade Deal, Vertical Farming
Sheep farmers in Northern Ireland who bought stock from Scottish markets in the autumn say they have no option but to...
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09/01/21 Farming Today This Week: gene editing, energy and the new trade deal with EU
The government has launched a consultation in England on allowing gene editing research to be used to produce crops...
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08/01/21 George Eustice, Agroecology, Robot Sprayer
Defra Secretary George Eustice discusses an England-only consultation into allowing genetic editing. Mr Eustice...
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07/01/21 Gene Editing, Cropping Willow for Energy, British Wool
The Government is today announcing the start of a consultation in England on allowing gene editing research to be...
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06/01/21 Seed Potato exports; Post-Brexit Fishing, The Oxford Farming Conferences
All this week Farming Today is looking at how the new EU trade deal is working out in practice for food producers....
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The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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04/01/21 Mental wellbeing, Anaerobic Digesters, Weather forecasting farmers
The biggest ever survey of farmer wellbeing and mental health is being launched. The Royal Agricultural Benevolent...
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02/01/21 Farming Today This Week: Rewilding to create a private nature reserve
Jonathan Thomson says he's always had a close bond with the natural world. He grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand...
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01/01/20 - The Archers at 70: the farmers of Ambridge
The Archers was first broadcast on 1st January 1951. To celebrate it's 70th Birthday, Charlotte Smith looks back at...
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Harris tweed and Western Isles crofting go hand-in-hand. An Act of Parliament stipulates this cloth, which is in...
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Coronavirus has had an enormous impact on the livelihoods of farmers in the UK. Watts Farm, who grow over 60...
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29/12/20 - Stornoway Black Pudding
Black pudding has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, thanks largely to the endorsement of celebrity chefs who have...
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28/12/20 - The Dartmoor Shepherd
When Lewis Steer was a teenager, he believed that not coming from a farming background would put his dream career out...
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Boxing Day Farming Today This Week - Looking Back at 2020
2020 has been a year like no other, but as the pandemic raged around the world, farmers kept on farming! In this...
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