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30/06/26 Scottish organic farmed salmon, soil health, water management
The organic certification body, the Soil Association, is warning it may withdraw from the farmed salmon sector unless higher standards are met. The o...
29/06/26 Water resilience on farms, rural place names, soil
Calls for more government action to protect water supplies for farming.
A series of workshops are taking place across Wales this year to collect...
27/06/26: Farming in the heat, England's Farming Roadmap, global agritourism.
This week farmers have coped with heavy thundery rain and record breaking temperatures. We hear from a pig farmer keeping his stock cool, a livestock...
26/06/26 NI to miss its environmental targets, farming in the heatwave, farm campsite
Northern Ireland is 'largely' missing the targets in its own Environmental Improvement Plan. A report from the environment watchdog, the Office for En...
25/06/2026 The Farming Roadmap, emissions from agriculture, pigs in the heat
'The most significant moment for English agriculture since the Second World War'; that's the Government's claim for their Farming Roadmap which has ju...
24/06/2026 Agritourism - Aberdeen hosts the first global conference of its kind
Aberdeen is hosting the first global agritourism conference. It's the brainchild of Caroline Millar who runs an agritourism business from her family f...
23/06/2026: Fighting wildfires, training sheep shearers, from hill farm to heritage events
The Met Office has issued a rare red 'extreme heat’ warning for parts of southern England, the Midlands and southern Wales for tomorrow and Thursday w...
22/06/26 Agri-tourism, Scottish abattoir costs, seaweed cattle feed to reduce methane
Why more farmers are opening their gates to the public - all week we're looking at agri-tourism.
Scientists across the world are investigating w...
20/06/26 - Royal Highland Show, Scottish farming policy and South West octopus bloom
The Royal Highland Show hopes to welcome 200,000 visitors across four days. In this programme we report from the show, hearing farmers' views on the S...
15/06/26 Octopus bloom, Scottish organic farming
An emergency by-law has been passed in Cornwall, to restrict the number of boats coming in to take advantage of the ongoing bloom of octopus on the so...
19/06/26 The Royal Highland Show and Scottish Government plans to cap prices on some essential foods.
Around 200,000 visitors will be visiting The Royal Highland Show this week. Farmers and growers will be showcasing their produce at the Royal Highland...
18/06/26 Change of Defra Farming Minister, Scottish greening policy, connected agri-tech
After Farming Minister Angela Eagle’s reshuffling out of DEFRA, we hear why the farming industry really doesn’t like ministerial churn.
We're lo...
17/06/26 Abattoir charges, pheasants and insects, Scottish farming with nature.
The owner of one of the last remaining abattoirs in the south east of England has said he's furious after a court ruled that the food regulator has be...
16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) says three rare heathland birds are starting to recover. Its heathland bird survey - the first for 20 years -...
13/06/26 Farming Today This Week
The budget for the scheme which pays England's farmers for environmental work is revealed - but is it enough?
With production costs rising follo...
12/06/26 Sustainable Farming Incentive, Cereal farming in Cumbria
The Department for Envrionment Food and Rural Affairs has announced how much money it’s making available to farmers in England through the Sustainable...
10/06/26 New bovine TB strategy for England, cereals
A cattle vaccine to protect livestock from bovine TB could be in use on farms in England by 2030. That's one of the aims outlined in a new strategy fo...
09/06/26 Flood funding, cattle cull, cereals
Somerset's to get an extra £50m investment to help the county deal with flooding. The government is giving the money to the county council who will wo...
08/06/26 Brown or white eggs? The outlook for cereal farmers
How do you like your eggs? Brown or white? Sainsbury's has announced it's switching to white eggs for environmental reasons.
With high prices fo...
06/06/26 - Farming Today This Week: Dartmoor ponies, water voles and land-based jobs
Dartmoor is famous for its semi-wild hill ponies that roam across the moorland. But concerns have been raised by the Dartmoor Hill Pony Association th...
05/06/26 Dartmoor ponies, upland economics, Open Farm Sunday
Concerns have been raised that new agri-environment schemes will require such a steep drop in the numbers of grazing livestock that 90% of Dartmoor po...
04/06/26 High Court rules the Food Standards Agency overcharged abattoirs, hydropower funding, upland farmer groups
A judgement from the High Court yesterday ruled that the Food Standards Agency has been 'unlawfully' charging abattoirs too much and that it wasn’t tr...
03/06/26 EU trade agreement, peat restoration and water voles, Scottish uplands
The government has published fresh guidance for farmers and food businesses to help them prepare for the new sanitary and phytosanitary - or SPS - ag...
02/06/26 Rural skills gap, upland farming in Wales, Future Countryside.
A new report says there should be plenty of opportunities for young people to take up training and jobs in land-based work - but there's a 'skills squ...
01/06/26 Cost of wildfires, methane from sheep, upland farming
The latest analysis of wildfires shows that last year the UK recorded its highest burned area on record, including the country's first documented ‘meg...
30/05/26 - Farming Today This Week: pig supply chain problems, hot weather impacts and singing farmers
Its been a record breakingly hot week across much, though not all, of the UK, and that's brought probems for farmers, with crops struggling and livest...
29/05/26 Water abstraction, food inflation, local food systems.
Water is a main topic of conversation amongst farmers at the moment - because it's in short supply. Memories of the wet winter have been dried out by...
28/05/26 Rural crime, restoring signposts, Welsh food project
A new report shows that the cost of rural crime has fallen. Insurer NFU Mutual paid out £41.5 million in claims in 2025, compared to £44.1 million in...
27/05/26 Heatwave and water shortages - the impact on farming, Scottish farm co-operative.
It’s been unseasonably hot over the last few days across much of the UK. Extreme heat means extra concerns for livestock farmers. The Irish government...
26/05/26 Mounting pressure for Scottish pig farmers, funding for rural churches, selling farm produce at markets
Pig farmers in Scotland say 10% of their national herd has gone to waste because there's oversupply in the market. They're asking their government fo...
25/05/26 - The History of Crofting
Crofting is embedded in life in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, but it's an unusual form of farming, with a family plot rarely able to provide...
23/05/26 Farming Today This Week: red diesel, Gulf trade deal, Climate Change Committee report, regen tenancies, flowers.
The cost of growing our food is still higher than before the conflict in the Middle East. To counteract some of that, the government's laid out a "Gr...
22/05/2026 Gulf trade deal, tax cut on red diesel, cuts to tariffs on food imports, flowers, farmers going out of business
We ask what the latest government cost of living measures mean for farmers.
How a Fenland farmer must decide whether to keep on his struggling f...
21/05/26 Drought report, impact of Middle East war on berry growers, farm flower garden.
'The taps could run dry' - that's the warning from a new report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Environment and Climate Change. The report,...
20/05/26 Climate Change Committee report, EU alignment, flower grower hub.
The Climate Change Committee has published a new report about the consequences of a 2% rise in global temperatures and what the UK needs to do about i...
19/05/26 Pollution from moorland burning, Duchy of Cornwall regen tenancies, tulips.
Researchers at Leeds University say a new study shows deliberate burning of moorland for grouse shooting leads to an additional half a million people,...
18/05/26: Grow more British flowers, new hands at the wheel of Red Tractor, hare coursing crackdown
Today is final judging day at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, ahead of the show's opening to the public tomorrow. This year, the Great Pavilion will incl...
16/05/26 Farming Today This Week: too many pigs, new strategy to tackle animal disease, call for caged eggs ban, Balmoral Show
Too many pigs, not enough space: farmers struggling to sell their livestock.
New strategies for tackling the spread of animal disease. We ask,...
15/05/2026 Balmoral Show, Northern Ireland
The Balmoral Show near Belfast is Northern Ireland's biggest agricultural show. It's held over four days and attracts more than 100,000 visitors. This...
14/05/26 New strategy to combat pig disease, farming issues in the King's Speech, sepsis risk for farmers
New strategies for tackling African Swine Fever. We ask how much is being done to stop it getting here in the first place.
Yesterday the King de...