Farming Today Podcast
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
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02/07/22 - Farming Today This Week: the shape of the soft fruit sector
Today
Charlotte Smith is on a fruit farm in Kent.
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01/07/22 - The 'environmental fruit-print'
Yesterday
Charlotte Smith investigates the environmental footprint of fruit.
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30/06/22 - A shortage of labour in the fruit sector
Thursday
Charlotte Smith is on a fruit farm in Kent, finding out about a shortage of labour.
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29/06/22 - The future of fruit
Wednesday
Anna Hill is on a fruit farm in Kent, looking at what the future holds.
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28/06/22 - The increasing cost of fruit production
Tuesday
Anna Hill is on a fruit farm in Kent, finding out why production costs are soaring.
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27/06/22 - Week on a Fruit Farm; fertiliser prices
Monday
Week on a fruit farm and fertiliser costs.
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25/06/22 - Farming Today This Week: farm labour, regenerative farming and avian flu
Last Saturday
Does the government understand farm labour shortages?
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24/06/22 - Labour Shortages, Bird Flu, Pollution Fine
Last Friday
Labour shortages, Bird flu, Pollution fine.
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22/6/22 - Surplus food, legumes and slug-resistant wheat
Wed 22 Jun 2022
Is taking surplus produce from farms an answer to food poverty and reducing food waste?
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21/06/22 - Farming Rules for Water, legumes for cattle, red clover for sheep
Tue 21 Jun 2022
The rules on muck spreading change again.
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Bird Flu Consortium launched
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Consortium launched to tackle largest ever bird flu outbreak.
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17/6/22 - Scottish Good Food Nation bill, salmon and rising farming costs
Fri 17 Jun 2022
Two food strategies in a week; we look at Scotland's Good Food Nation bill.
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16/6/22 - Seasonal workers and salmon farming
Thu 16 Jun 2022
The government's brought in 10,000 new visas to ease labour shortages, but is it enough?
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15/6/22 - Regenerative farming, wild salmon and seabird deaths
Wed 15 Jun 2022
Could regenerative farming feed the UK?
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14/06/2022 - The National Food Strategy and salmon farming
Tue 14 Jun 2022
The impact of the National Food Strategy on farmers and food producers.
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13/06/22 - salmon and rising egg costs
Mon 13 Jun 2022
We take a look at the UK’s biggest fresh food export: salmon
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10/06/22 - Rural housing, hay meadows, land use
Fri 10 Jun 2022
How will the government's extended right-to-buy plans affect rural communities?
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09/06/22 - Fertiliser costs, land use, the finances of nature recovery
Thu 9 Jun 2022
The growing market for private investment in nature recovery.
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08/06/22 - Combining solar panels with food production, and Welsh agricultural policy
Wed 8 Jun 2022
Can solar panels be combined with commercial fruit production?
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07/06/22 - Coastal changes, future farming policy in Scotland and small scale horticulture
Tue 7 Jun 2022
Will some coastal communities and farm land have to be given up to the sea?
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06/06/22 - Land use, carbon markets and the BBC Food and Farming Awards
Mon 6 Jun 2022
Do we need a strategy to manage the competing pressures on land?
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Farming Today This Week: Future Farming
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Innovation: A vertical farm, eating grass, robot harvester and weeder, farming royalty.
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03/06/22 - The Queen and the Countryside
Fri 3 Jun 2022
A platinum jubilee edition of Farming Today with Vernon Harwood in Windsor.
