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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...
17/11/25 Rise in wool price, getting out of dairy, fish farming
The price farmers get for wool is up, about 20% up from last year, but it still doesn't cover the cost of shearing the sheep.
We hear from a da...
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...