Farming Today

BBC

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Episodes

19/09/2026 The role of farming co-ops, Shepherd protests in Bucharest, International sheep dog trials

18/09/2026: Lib Dem Party Conference, Glutinous Snails, BBC Awards finalists, The Farmers Wife on stage.

17/09/26 Farmer protests in Romania, sheedog trials, Scottish arable cooperative.

16/09/26 Young trees in drought, wildfires, agricultural cooperative.

15.09.26 Calls for a rural reset, how to harvest small scale arable, dairy co-operative.

14/09/26 Calls for more farm co-ops, Hereford cattle dispute, flax and hemp

Farming Today This Week 12/09/26 Bluetongue disease, Kelso Ram Sales, sheep rustling, farming without fossil fuels, Wild Summit.

11/09/26 Bluetongue disease, sheep rustling, Kelso sheep sales

10/09/26 Sustainable dairy farming; Falkland salmon; tractor fuel from willow.

09/09/2026 UK's self-sufficiency in food; bio-gas production on farm; Shetland's food.

08/09/2026: Spy in the tractor cab? Surrey hops, The Experimental Farmer

07/09/26 Government call for evidence on gamebirds, farming without oil

Farming Today This Week 05/09/26 Bluetongue; food security; data centres; river DNA testing; corncrakes; dung beetle vet.

04/09/26 National Audit Office report on food security resilience, corncrakes, late strawberries

03/09/2026 Scientists dealing with bluetongue, Lough Neagh sampling, Normandy food producers.

02/09/2926 Data centres on farmland, harvest in Uist, River Tweed.

01/09/26 Crisis loans, pasture for drought resilience, river DNA testing

31/08/2026: Wildlife corridors

29/08/2026: bluetongue, future crops, lavender farm

28/08/26 Licensing firearms and shotguns, lavender in the Lakes, gene-edited salad crops