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15/11/25 EFRA questions, report on farming in Wales, drought, potato harvest, mushrooms, truffles, cider
Eight weeks after taking up her post as DEFRA Secretary of State, Emma Reynolds has faced her first barrage of questions from the cross-party group of...
14/11/25 Drought warnings, farmers at COP 30, woodland mushrooms, veg grown in Senegal
We hear warnings that unless we see some serious rain, England will be in drought next year. The Environment Agency says there will be widespread impa...
13/11/25 MPs call for inheritance tax impact assessment in Wales, mycelium as insulation, Guernsey cider
A report by the House of Commons’ Welsh Affairs Committee is calling for the Government's inheritance tax on farmers to be halted, because it says the...
12/11/25 EFRA questions, pig farm planning permission, truffles, potatoes
Eight weeks after taking up her post as DEFRA Secretary of State, Emma Reynolds has faced her first barrage of questions from the cross-party group of...
11/11/25 Fishing action plan, Scottish farming fund, farmers' arthritis, mushrooms
An all party parliamentary group of MPs is launching what it calls a 'new action plan for fishing.' The group believes that the industry is being chal...
10/11/2025: Family farms, 'Aginflation', mushroom growing in NI
Many farming families are uncertain about their future in the industry, but are we on the cusp of major change with consequences for the fabric of the...
08/11/25 Farming Today This Week: Bird flu, low farmer confidence, Millennium Seed Bank, food security
Poultry Farmers are warned this winter is on course to be among the worst for avian flu. This week all poultry in England and Northern Ireland was ord...
07/11/2025: Bird flu warning, Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled Cress, low farmer confidence
Poultry Farmers are warned this winter is on course to be among the worst for Avian Flu. This week all poultry in England and Northern Ireland was ord...
05/11/25 Preparedness for animal disease, bird flu housing order, seeds, oat genome.
As the number of bird flu cases across the country rises, DEFRA has announced bird keepers across England must house all poultry and captive birds if...
06/11/25 Millennium Seed Bank - how wild seeds can help agriculture and landscape restoration.
As part of our week-long focus on seeds we go behind the scenes at the Millennium Seed Bank in Sussex. It's celebrating its 25th anniversary this year...
04/11/25 Seasonal workers, seed merchant, farm profitability.
The government's announced the number of agricultural seasonal workers visas allowed for the UK for next year. 41,000 visas will be made available fo...
03/11/2025: Food security, no confidence in DAERA, where seeds start
A cross party group of MPs are warning that UK food production could drop by almost a third, by 2050. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Science and...
01/11/2025: Drought, invasive species, waste
The government's Drought Group has warned of ongoing problems in the year ahead unless reservoirs and rivers get enough rain in the next few months. T...
31/10/25: Pumpkin growers' nightmare. Drought to continue into 2026? UK Carbon budget. Invasive species
Pumpkin growers have had a nightmare year. The crop needs plenty of water and the hot summer made them ripen too early for Halloween. Cost of living p...
30/10/25: An uncomfortable transition? The buzz about Asian hornets. Cosmic ray neutrons and soil moisture
A Government commissioned review of the problems with farm profitability, carried out by Baroness Batters, is due to be delivered to DEFRA soon. It co...
29/10/25 Scottish Land Reform Bill, bird flu housing order, Himalayan Basalm, historic farming landscapes.
The Land Reform Bill is being debated at Holyrood and members of the Scottish Parliament will be voting on what’s been described as landmark legislati...
28/10/2025 Waste crime inquiry, beaver release, zebra mussels
Multiple failures from the Environment Agency, a lack interest from police and a ‘woeful lack of successful convictions’. That’s what a House of Lords...
27/10/25 Energy costs for salad growers, carrots, invasive species.
Salad growers are warning that price increases for electricity will drive people out of the sector. Growers in the Lea Valley on the edge of London sa...
25/10/25: Beer and cider from land to glass
The raw ingredients to make a pint all begin life on British farms whether malting barley, or cider apples and perry pears, or hops. For barley and ho...
24/10/2025 Fishing fund and Scottish fishers. DNA of cider apples. Cornish centenarian farmer.
"Anger, dismay and sense of betrayal”. That’s how the SNP described the response of Scottish coastal communities to the allocation of money to Scotla...
23/10/25 Environmental regulation in Northern Ireland. Malting barley for beer. Food system report
Northern Ireland needs a new independent environmental regulator, properly staffed and financially resourced to tackle the many challenges it will fac...
22/10/25 Water Grid, Perry Pears, Sugar Beet Prices
It's a familiar idea that batteries store electricity and now a new European project, called Water Grid, is encouraging farmers to create ponds as 'wa...
21/10/25 Welfare report on CO2 and the slaughter of pigs; producing cider
An independent review of the way pigs are slaughtered has called for the use of carbon dioxide gassing to be prohibited, because it causes too much di...
20/10/25 Planning reform, beer and growing hops.
The Government’s bill to ‘get Britain building’ returns to the House of Lords for its report stage. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill gained more t...
18/10/25 Farming Today This Week: No U-turn on farm inheritance tax, environmental scheme extension "too late", farming in Gaza
There will be no U-turn on the Government’s plans for inheritance tax for farmers, according to the Farming Minister. Dame Angela Eagle says planned c...
17/10/25 Farming minister on sustainable farming scheme and inheritance tax. Council farms in Cornwall
There will be no U-turn on the government’s plans for inheritance tax for farmers, according to the Farming Minister. Dame Angela Eagle says planned...
16/10/25 Environmental scheme extension 'too late', The Windsor Framework 'overwhelmingly complex', county council farm incomes
"Too little too late", that’s what we’re hearing from some farmers who’ve already ploughed up and planted fields that were being farmed for nature. T...
15/10/25: Milk prices, what it takes to get a Council Farm
Some milk processors have made dramatic cuts to the price they pay farmers, citing a global oversupply. Some of you emailed us to ask why prices for d...
14/10/25 Microplastics and seafood, council farms, trade tariffs and farm machinery.
A new report says that the presence of microplastics in seafood has been overstated by the media. The paper, by researchers at Heriot-Watt University,...
13/10/25 Flood resilience, SNP Conference, county council farms
England's current approach to planning for floods is "underpowered and fragmented". That's according to a report from MPs which is published today.
10/10/25: Illegal waste dumping in the countryside, Plaid Cymru, HS2 compulsory purchases
We report on the increasing amounts of waste dumped in the countryside and how to tackle it.
As party conference season continues, we're hearing...
09/10/25 Trump's aid package for soyabean farmers, welfare for farmed insects, hare coursing
As President Trump plans to bail out soyabean farmers and China goes to South America for supplies, how will UK animal feed be affected by the turmoil...
08/10/25: Rive Wye, rural crime, new nature reserve
What has been described as the biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution has been filed at the High Court. Almost 4000...
07/10/25: Skilled workers visas, Neigh-bourhood Watch, British Wool anniversary.
More than twenty five dairy farms in Scotland say their businesses could be at risk after the UK Government removed farm workers from the visa system...
06/10/25: Rural policing, grape harvest, Conservative Party conference
A rural crime expert tells us there's been an 'ideological and material' shift away from the problem in some police force areas. Dr Kate Tudor from Du...
Farming Today This Week: illegal meat, rural poverty, bluetongue, livestock marts, acorns and pigs
Twenty tonnes of illegal meat and animal products have been intercepted at Dover in September alone according to Dover's Head of Port Health and Publi...
02/10/2025 Cuts to milk price, bluetongue virus and food security
The price farmers are paid for milk is falling. This comes at a bad time for many farmers who are having to buy in forage for their cows after the lo...
01/10/25: Illegal meat at Dover, farm wages, economic impact of Wales' environment scheme
20 tonnes of illegal meat and animal products have been intercepted at Dover in September alone. Dover's Head of Port Health and Public Protection tel...
30/09/25: Who let the pigs out? Heat pump 'fixation'? Mart socialising
Every autumn pigs are released into the New Forest - the tradition of Pannage. The pigs gobble up the acorns from the thousands of oak trees in the Fo...
29/09/25: Prime Minister's farming priority, Armagh Bramleys, livestock markets
As the Labour Party Conference continues, the Prime Minister says improving profitability is his priority for farming. There's no sign of change on th...