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2025-01-17

  17/01/25 - CCC changes advice on eating meat, report finds environmental targets off track, adapting farm machinery

The Climate Change Committee is revising its advice on eating meat. In 2020 the Committee, which is the Government's advisor on climate change, recommended people cut their intake of beef, lamb and dairy produce by 20% by 2030 and by 35% by 2050, to r... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-16

  16/01/25 - The LAMMA 2025 Farm Machinery Show

The LAMMA 2025 farm machinery show is underway at the NEC in Birmingham - but is anyone buying? Charlotte Smith visits the show to check out the latest in farm machinery and innovation. She takes a look at a new sprayer which can target individual weed... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-15

  15/01/2025 - UK bans imports of German meat following foot & mouth outbreak in Germany, devolved agriculture ministers, combines

The UK closes its borders to imports of German meat, as the authorities there tackle an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Farmers here are told to be vigilant.Each of devolved nations is designing a new post-Brexit farm payment scheme, to replace t... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-14

  14/01/2025 - Trade with the EU, gene editing, robotic milking and small abattoir closures

As England is now the one part of the UK allowed to grow gene edited crops, what does that mean for trade with partners like the EU? We discuss the latest promises on legislation with Northern Ireland's Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Af... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-11

  11/01/25 Farming Today This Week: the farming conferences in Oxford

Farming Today This Week comes from Oxford where two big conferences have been taking place: the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference. The first is traditionally seen as attended by the established and larger farms, and the R... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-10

  10/01/25 The Defra Secretary at the Oxford Farming Conference

With tractors protesting outside the Oxford Farming Conference, what will the Defra Secretary say to farmers? Inheritance tax wasn't the focus of Steve Reed's speech, instead he promised a Plan for Change. He told delegates this must have three things... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-09

  09/01/24 - Day one at the Oxford Farming Conferences

Anna Hill is in Oxford for two major conferences: the Oxford Farming Conference and the Oxford Real Farming Conference. The first is traditionally seen as attended by the established and larger farms, and the Real Farming Conference has wider scope wit... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-08

  08/01/25 - Money for farming, Bake-Off Farmer and nitrogen fixing tech

A stronger vision for farming and more money - that's the call from the Wildlife Trusts in a new report which makes the case for investment in nature to protect the UK's food security. It says that at a time when climate change impacts are starting to ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-07

  07/01/25 - Wet weather, HS2 limbo and innovative food and farming ideas

It's been a frozen and wet start to 2025 with widespread snow and flooding. For many farmers it's all a bit too much like last winter - the wettest on record - which saw crops drowned and delayed much planting simply because the land was too wet to get... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-01-06

  06/01/25 Bird numbers down around Lough Neagh, Scottish whisky adapting to climate change, Robot dog

Bird counts reveal a drop in numbers around Lough Neagh - could the algal blooms be to blame?Whisky distilleries and producers are becoming more alive to the fact that every stage of the whisky-making process is being affected by the climate Scotland i... 		  BBC Radio 4 author