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03/01/26 Farming Today This Week: Farms for City Children at 50, horse-powered pints, mart tradition, 18th century farmer diary
A round up of seasonal offerings from Farming Today.
The charity Farms for City Children turns 50 this year. Set up by writer Michael Morpurgo a...
02/01/26 Wildlife or Pest? The Wild Goats of Langholm Moor
Controlling wild goats is proving tricky in Scotland's border country. While herds can damage trees and outgrow their food supply, these fierce yet en...
01/01/26 Isaac Fletcher's Farming Diaries
Historians in Cumbria are publishing extracts from the diary of an 18th century yeoman farmer.
The writings of Isaac Fletcher, who farmed at Mo...
31/12/25 Cider Apple DNA
Sarah Swadling finds out about a quest to save our hidden cider orchard heritage using DNA testing.
Work is being carried out in orchards to DNA...
30/12/25 The Luck Penny
Farmers at Rathfriland market in County Down still practise an old tradition when livestock changes hands. Farmers selling their animals hand money ba...
The Longhorns of Salisbury Plain
Elise Sutton is a new entrant to farming, but the herd of Longhorn cattle she looks after have a blood line that goes back 85 years. The Stoke herd, w...
27/12/26: Anna Hill's 30 years on Farming Today
This year, Anna Hill marked her 30th anniversary as a presenter of Farming Today. Talking to her fellow presenter Charlotte Smith, Anna reflects on t...
Horse-powered Pint
Britain’s pubs and bars will be busy with Boxing Day drinkers enjoying a seasonal pint or two today. But how many will give a thought to the way the b...
25/12/25 Farms for City Children - 50 years of Michael & Clare Morpurgo's charity.
Farms for City Children was set up by the writer Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare 50 years ago. They were both young teachers and wanted to help ch...
24/12/25 The Ceremony of the Christmas Cheeses
With a military pipe band and trumpet fanfares, Caz Graham joins pensioners at the Royal Hospital Chelsea for their Ceremony of the Christmas Cheeses,...
Trail hunting ban, Christmas trees, Combating rural loneliness at Christmas
We hear from both sides of the hunting divide about the Government's plan to ban trail hunting in England and Wales. Trail hunting was introduced afte...
22/12/25 Government animal welfare reforms, reaction to the Farm Profitability Review
Colony cages for hens and pig's farrowing crates are to be phased out as part of the Government's animal welfare strategy which is launched today. Tra...
20/12/25 Farming review, cheap veg, historic buildings
The Batters Review into Farm Profitability in England was finally published this week. It was put together by Baroness Batters, former president of th...
19/12/25 Farm profitability review, charcuterie, mill stones
The major changes needed to make farming profitable - we hear from Baroness Batters on her long awaited review.
Charcuterie is often a favourite...
18/12/25 Loss leaders, small ducks, historic houses
We ask why veg is always a loss leader at this time of year, and whether farmers suffer as a result. For the price of a first class stamp you could bu...
17/12/2025 Planning reforms and the environment, rural churches.
Village churches are as much a part of our rural landscape as trees and hedgerows. However according to a recent survey by the National Churches Trust...
16/12/2025 MPs challenge prime minister about inheritance tax, planning and green belt, restoring rural buildings
The Prime Minister has told a select committee he is aware of the pressure farmers are facing because of the government's plan to reimpose inheritance...
EU tractor protest, hill farm nature reserve, heritage buildings in the countryside
Caz Graham talks to the President of the Irish Farmers Association, Francie Gorman, about the journey he's embarking upon from Dublin to Brussels by t...
13/12/25 Farming Today This Week: turkeys; rural roads; off-grid communities; African swine fever; rare breed pigs.
Despite the impact of avian flu, which has been devastating for some turkey farmers, the industry says there will not be a shortage this Christmas. Po...
12/12/25 Abattoirs, Farm sitters, Welsh rare breeds
The Food Standards Agency has agreed to a public consultation on the fees it takes from abattoirs. They are charged by the FSA for their official vets...
11/12/25 Colorado Beetle, fairness in arable supply chain, aid for US farmers, rare breed pigs
The Colorado Beetle which is a major threat to potato crops has been officially eradicated from the UK. It was last identified on a farm in Kent in 2...
10/12/25 Swine fever, Turkeys, Rare breeds
The Spanish region of Catalonia is still coping with the arrival of African Swine Fever, which was first diagnosed in wild boar on November 28th. Ther...
09/12/25 Off grid communities, rural road deaths, drought, Lincoln Longwool sheep.
Thousands of people are still not connected to the National Grid and rely on generators for power, according to the energy regulator. Ofgem estimates...
08/12/25 Rare breeds, sprout harvest, vets encouraging farmers to visit the doctor
The Governments of the UK need to do more to support native farm animal breeds. That's the view of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust which says that whi...
06/12/25 Farming Today This Week: rural traditions supply chain adjudicator, drought, bluetongue, swine fever, winter jobs
Rural traditions, from morris dancing to dry stone walling and tartan weaving, could be internationally protected by UNESCO. The government has launch...
05/12/25 Rural traditions, Adjudicator, Livestock
Rural traditions - from morris dancing, to dry stone walling to tartan weaving - could be internationally protected by UNESCO. The government has laun...
04/12/25 Inheritance Tax, Drought, Cider
A group of Labour MPs with rural consitituancies have urged the Government to think again on Inheritance Tax Changes, with some abstaining on a Common...
Sugar cane, battery storage, vintage wagons
There are warnings that an increase in the amount of sugar cane that can be imported into the UK tariff-free will impact British sugar beet farmers, w...
02/12/2025 African swine fever, Bluetongue, Ethical dairy
The UK has temporarily banned all imports of pig products from Spain afrer an outbreak of African Swine Fever in wild boars there. It's their first...
01/12/25 Government's environmental improvement plan, water management and flooding, hedge laying
The government's new environmental improvement plan for England is launched today. The Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs has set o...
29/11/25 Farming Today This Week: Farmer protests over the budget and inheritance tax, agriculture course suspended, dairy
Farmers were in London again to protest about the re-imposition of inheritance tax on farming and business assets of more than £1 million, something a...
28/11/25 Rural depopulation, organic dairy, potato waste skin care, reservoir farm
36 per cent of people who live in rural areas or on islands in Scotland are considering leaving, blaming a range of things from healthcare and ferries...
27/11/2025 Budget and inheritance tax, farmer protest
Farmers were in London again to protest about the re-imposition of inheritance tax on farming and business assets of more than a million pounds - some...
26/11/25 Planning bill and environmental protections, livestock genetics, robotic dairy.
Conservationists have accused the government of turning its back on nature in the new planning bill which is making its way through parliament. The RS...
25/11/25 University agriculture courses, bird flu in Wales, dairy farm succession.
Despite a rise in the number of students taking up agriculture degrees over the last couple of years, not all courses are growing. The University of N...
24/11/25: Dairy rollercoaster, English farm business incomes, Isle of Man vets
The latest Farm Business Income Survey from DEFRA shows average dairy farm incomes for 2024/25 had doubled year on year. The reality at this moment ma...
21/11/25 Defra secretary at CLA conference, farm business income, COP and agriculture, prison farm.
Details on the relaunch of England's biggest agri-environment scheme will come in the first half of next year - so says the Secretary of State for the...
20/11/25 Food & Farming Award winner, maltings closures, farming in Brazil, oysters.
A decline in demand for whiskey is being blamed for the closure and suspension of Scottish malting plants - something which farmers fear will also mea...
19/11/25 Antibiotic resistance, rice straw, Food & Farming Awards winner
The use of antibiotics in treating livestock in the UK has fallen, according to a new report published by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, which...
18/11/25 Inheritance Tax a year on from farmers' rally, soy in animal feed, lanolin protein
A year on from a big farmers' rally in Whitehall, farmers again travel to London to lobby MPs about inheritance tax.
As COP 30 continues in Bra...