Podcast Episodes
Back to Search15.09.26 Calls for a rural reset, how to harvest small scale arable, dairy co-operative.
The former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett has told the government to 'reset' it's rural policy, and 'learn from its mistakes' with inheritance …
1 week, 5 days ago
14/09/26 Calls for more farm co-ops, Hereford cattle dispute, flax and hemp
We hear calls for more ‘cooperative working’, to give farmers a louder voice in the food supply chain.
When is a Hereford cow not a Hereford cow? How …
1 week, 6 days ago
Farming Today This Week 12/09/26 Bluetongue disease, Kelso Ram Sales, sheep rustling, farming without fossil fuels, Wild Summit.
The number of bluetongue cases since the first of July in the UK has now topped a thousand. That’s nearly three times the number of positive cases fo…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
11/09/26 Bluetongue disease, sheep rustling, Kelso sheep sales
The number of bluetongue cases since the first of July in the UK has now topped a thousand. That’s nearly three times the number of positive cases fo…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
10/09/26 Sustainable dairy farming; Falkland salmon; tractor fuel from willow.
UK dairy cows produce around 15 billion litres of milk every year and each litre comes with an environmental cost: methane and greenhouse gas emissio…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
09/09/2026 UK's self-sufficiency in food; bio-gas production on farm; Shetland's food.
Britain is producing less food now than 30 years ago, with lower levels of self sufficiency in 10 out of 11 key food stuffs grown by UK farmers. That…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
08/09/2026: Spy in the tractor cab? Surrey hops, The Experimental Farmer
A Westminster think tank has warned that internet-connected technology has the potential to be used by China to spy on the UK food system. The Coalit…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
07/09/26 Government call for evidence on gamebirds, farming without oil
Every year, huge numbers of pheasant and partridge are raised across the UK for shoots, with around 40 million released into the countryside. Now the…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Farming Today This Week 05/09/26 Bluetongue; food security; data centres; river DNA testing; corncrakes; dung beetle vet.
As the UK experiences its worst ever outbreak of the livestock disease bluetongue, we find out how government vets and scientists are coping as they …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
04/09/26 National Audit Office report on food security resilience, corncrakes, late strawberries
How well prepared are we for a major threat to our food security? Not quite well enough, according to the National Audit Office, which is publishing …
3 weeks, 2 days ago