Farming Today

BBC

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Episodes

18/05/26: Grow more British flowers, new hands at the wheel of Red Tractor, hare coursing crackdown

16/05/26 Farming Today This Week: too many pigs, new strategy to tackle animal disease, call for caged eggs ban, Balmoral Show

15/05/2026 Balmoral Show, Northern Ireland

14/05/26 New strategy to combat pig disease, farming issues in the King's Speech, sepsis risk for farmers

13/05/26 Pig supply, Northumberland National Park, profitability of farms in Northern Ireland

12/05/26 Farming in Wales after Senedd elections; mapping soils in Northern Ireland; new national plant health centre

11/05/26: Cage eggs ban call, University vineyard, Environment watchdog on NI water quality

09/05/26 Wool prices, Sounds from above and below the ground

07/05/26 Wool prices, bluebells, dawn chorus

06/05/26 Weedkiller glyphosate and its use on crops. Sounds of the soil.

05/05/26 Ash tree propagation, clinical waste on beach, DIY bat monitoring

04/05/26 Neolithic Farming and Feasting

02/05/26 Dry April, Agroforestry, Giant greenhouse

01/05/2026 Farmers hoping for rain, English council elections, hedgerows

30/04/26 Agro-forestry pioneer, Welsh election, decline in dawn chorus birds

29/04/26 Giant greenhouse, silvohorticulture, Scottish election

28/04/2026 Cornish fishing strategy; agroforestry - trees and pasture; potato surplus

27/04/26 Landmark water pollution court case, MPs recommend a 'sea use framework', agroforestry

Farming Today This Week 25/04/26 Bird flu vaccine for people, fertiliser, precision-bred barley, thatching.

24/04/26: Cover crop scheme proposal, sourcing thatching materials, gene-edited Barley