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2025-02-22

  22/02/25 - Farming Today This Week: Peat and climate change, bottom trawling, inheritance tax

The majority of the UK's peatlands could be at risk of drying out in the next 40-50 years because of climate change - according to a new study from scientists at the Universities of Exeter, Manchester and Derby. Healthy, wet peatlands are seen as part ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-21

  21/02/25 Solar wildlife, Scottish land use strategy, regenerative agriculture.

Solar farms managed for nature can benefit birds more than intensively farmed arable land. Research by the RSPB and the University of Cambridge looked at two types of solar farms in the East Anglian Fens. Those with mixed habitats - with hedgerows, no... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-20

  20/02/25 Land Use and solar development, food prices

England's Land Use Framework is out to consultation. We speak to the academic who brought groups of farmers together to speak to Defra officials as they developed the policy. We also consider what impact the framework might have on big renewable projec... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-19

  19/02/2025 - Inheritance tax row, bottom trawling in MPAs and NI Land Use Framework

Farming leaders have said they left a much-anticipated meeting with the Treasury with their blood "boiling", claiming the Government has "shut the door" on any rethink of planned changes to inheritance tax on farms. It follows months of protests over p... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-18

  18/02/2025 - UK peatlands at risk, agroforestry tree guide and competing land use

The majority of the UK's peatlands could be at risk of drying out in the next 40-50 years because of climate change - according to a new study from scientists at the Universities of Exeter, Manchester and Derby. Healthy, wet peatlands are seen as part ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-15

  15/02/25 - Farming Today This Week: Inheritance Tax Special

After a week that saw hundreds of tractors block Whitehall and a prime ministerial visit disrupted by protesting farmers, we take an in-depth look at the proposed changes around inheritance tax on farms.From April 2026, inherited agricultural assets wo... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-14

  14/02/25 Prime Minster and a tractor protest, the global effect of pesticides on nature, farmers' choir in Northern Ireland

Pesticides are killing plants, insects and animals that they're not aiming to control, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the University of Sussex have joined international researchers to analyse 1,700 lab and field studies of 471 insecticides... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-13

  13/02/2025 - Farmers say the latest measures to combat bird flu don't go far enough, as cases rise in wild birds and poultry

Free Range egg producers say the Government's latest measures to combat bird flu don't go far enough. The Chief Vet says that from Sunday, poultry in a further five English counties, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire, m... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-12

  12/02/25 Farm minister at Norfolk Show, rural foodbanks, deer and woodland.

Farmers have vowed to continue protesting at the government's decision to implement inheritance tax on their businesses. The rate at which they are taxed is half that of other businesses, 20 percent, but farmers still say many of them will have to sell... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-02-11

  11/02/25 - Inheritance tax protest and farming mental health

As many as one and half thousand tractors have converged on Westminster as farmers continue their protest over the Government's plan to re-introduce inheritance tax on farm business assets from next year. The Government says imposing the tax on farms w... 		  BBC Radio 4 author