Farming Today
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q
- Description
- The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-09 11:34
- last episode published
- 2024-05-09 05:00
- publication frequency
- 1.21 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 2143
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- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-09 |
09/05/24 - Regen ag, Iberico pork, OEP water report and tractor factory strike The boss of Waitrose has told Farming Today that the value of food needs reappraising and that in some cases higher prices should be considered. It comes as the supermarket announces that from 2035, it’s UK produced meat, milk, eggs and fruit and veg w... |
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| 2024-05-08 |
08/05/24 - Coast path, carbon sequestration and selling fruit direct The King Charles III England Coast Path was named to celebrate the coronation last year - and the plan was to make 2,700 miles of coastal path available to walkers. But, on the Isle of Wight, the Ramblers Association says some landowners won't allow ac... |
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| 2024-05-07 |
07/05/24 UK EU row over sandeels, farmers' collapse in confidence, Bordeaux wine growers in trouble The RSPB says it is "vital" that a UK ban on fishing for sandeels in the North Sea remains in place. The ban, which stops sandeel trawlers fishing in English and Scottish sections of the North Sea, came into effect in April following a long campaign b... |
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| 2024-05-06 | Just what happens when a foreign billionaire buys a vast tract of the Scottish Highlands and sets about changing it? Does Scotland’s biggest landowner Anders Holch Povlsen dictate everything that happens on his 80,000 acres of the Cairngorm National Pa... |
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| 2024-05-04 |
04/05/24 - Farming Today This Week: Border checks, cider orchards and illegal waste dumping New physical checks have been brought in on some imports of food and plants from the EU. Products deemed high or medium risk now have to be inspected - including live animals, meat and some plant products. We report from a border control post to find o... |
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| 2024-05-03 |
03/05/24 Latest badger cull figures, Jeremy Clarkson, sniffing onion disease The latest figures from Defra show nearly 20,000 badgers were killed across England last year, as part of the Government's policy to tackle TB in cattle. Badger campaigners say that the continued culling is leading to local extinctions. Defra says the... |
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| 2024-05-02 |
02/05/2024: Illegal waste dumping; NI veterinary medicines; Natural pesticides An investigation is under way into a case of large-scale illegal waste dumping in Kent. According to a House of Lords committee report, up to a third of veterinary medicines currently used in Northern Ireland could cease to be available to farmers when... |
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| 2024-05-01 |
01/05/25 - Import border checks, local elections and blackgrass New physical checks have been brought in on some imports of food and plants from the EU. Products deemed high or medium risk now have to be inspected - including live animals, meat and some plant products. Inspections can be done either at Government r... |
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| 2024-04-30 |
30/04/24 - Border checks, global disease monitoring and integrated pest management New border checks for imports of food and plants coming into the UK from the EU, start 30th April 2024. Some farming groups have been calling for these checks for some time - saying they will give producers here more of a level playing field with EU pr... |
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| 2024-04-27 | Illegal fishing on rivers and watercourses is on up according to the police, who are stepping up patrols with other agencies. Angling clubs pay thousands of pounds every year to stock rivers with fish for members and taking fish without permission is ... |
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