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11/12/23 Sugar row; Minecraft and conservation; Rare breeds.

British Sugar says it may put negotiations over the price it'll pay farmers next year into arbitration. The NFU says the costs of that would outstrip the cost of the issues they can't agree on. There

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09/12/23 Farming Today This Week: COP28 food and agriculture; Food as a public good; Snow

Food security is a public good and the Government should use England's post Brexit environmental payment system to incentivise it; so say MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee in a report out this

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Nostalgic or has plant-based tacos for everyone

This week on the show, producer Toby Foster visits with one of the owners of Tacotarian in Los Vegas. They talk about the vision behind this vegan taco spot and explore the possibilities of both fake

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08/12/23 Food security report; Bluefin tuna; Young farmers at COP28

Food Security is a public good and the government should use England's post-Brexit environmental payment system to incentivise it - so say MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee in a new report. Foo

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07/12/23 Funding for African crops at COP28; Bluetongue virus in cattle; Care farm.

$50 million of new investment to 'accelerate agriculture and food innovations' has been announced at COP28. This is part of AIM, the Agriculture Innovation Mission for climate, a global coalition set

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06/12/23 Cost of food and climate change; Police off-road motorbikes.

All week we're taking the temperature of the COP 28 climate summit in Dubai. While there's been criticism of attendance by oil, coal and gas industries, for the first time food production and distribu

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05/12/23 COP28 and agriculture; Vertical farming; Migrant worker wages; Farmers snowed unde

All week we're discussing the issues raised around food production at the COP28 summit in Dubai. It's the first time farming and food production have been included in the summit's remit. The food syst

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04/12/23 COP28 food and farming, pollock, wet crops

Farming and food is on the official COP agenda for the first time. It's taken 28 years but there is now a declaration from COP on the future of food, the Emirates Declaration on Sustainable Agricultur

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02/12/23 - Rural housing, Landscape Recovery schemes and DEFRA food attaches

Acute and overlooked - that's how the rural charity, the CPRE, describes the shortage of affordable housing in the English countryside in a report out this week. It says rural homelessness has risen b

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BIPOC farmers connect through a fellowship

“And so I really love to be able to see how other BIPOC farmers in the community are doing good with the land.”This week on the show, we talk with recipients of a fellowship that brings BIPOC farmers

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01/12/23 British baked beans, Cotswolds landscape recovery scheme, raising beef on the Sout

Baked beans on our toast could soon be British-grown, following a UK initiative between scientists and farmers. Although they've long been a family favourite, until now the beans in baked beans can't

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30/11/23 AI predictions for agriculture, Dorset landscape recovery scheme, agri-tech

Climate Scientists, politicians, big business, food companies and agriculture leaders have all gathered for the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Discussions will be deep and meaningful, so we were rathe

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29/11/23 - National Parks and National Forests, Landscape Recovery along the River Axe and

The Government is due to announce new funding for National Parks in England along with plans to identify an area for a new National Park. This follows news that new community forests will be created i

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28/11/23 - Swine flu in a human, a rural housing crisis and Brecklands landscape recovery

Swine flu has been diagnosed in pigs on 33 farms in the UK so far this year. But now, it's been diagnosed in a human. The person, in North Yorkshire, is now fully recovered after what's described as a

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27/11/23 - Commercial forestry, Landscape Recovery in the Lakes and UK food attaches

The UK has planted 13,000 hectares of trees this year - that's less than half of the annual target of 30,000 hectares, and 7,000 down on last year. The figures come in the latest annual 'UK Forest Mar

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25/11/23 Farming Today This Week: Regenerative farming

Regenerative agriculture is seen by some as the future of farming; we discuss the hope and the hype. Joining the discussion are regen Shropshire farmer Michael Kavanaugh, part of the Green Farm Collec

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Raising seeds

“We have about a four acre parcel of land here that’s subdivided into a whole bunch of micro-plots, basically, where we can isolate, you know, the Black Strawberry Tomato, or the Chinese Wool Flower o

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24/11/23 - Pond restoration, Kelvin Fletcher goes farming and regenerative flour

Roughly two thirds of ponds in England and Wales have been lost since the late 19th century, mainly because they’ve been filled in or drained so the land can be farmed, and unlike in the 19th century,

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23/11/2023 - Autumn statement and glyphosate v ploughing

After the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, Caz Graham hears from a range of experts about what it contains for farm businesses and the many people a sticking point in regenerative farmin

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22/11/23 - Soft fruit growers contracting, Hollywood meets regen ag and the 'new' AONBs

Soft fruit growers say they are scaling back future investment plans because retailers are not paying enough for their produce. That's according to British Berry Growers - the industry body representi

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21/11/23 - Naked Clams, a regenerative field trial and a new Welsh National Park

The shipworm is a bi-valve mollusc - like an oyster or a mussel - which is known as a marine pest because it eats through sea-water submersed wood. Now, scientists at Cambridge and Plymouth Universiti

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20/11/2023 Cuttlefish in Cornwall, and what actually is regenerative agriculture?

Known as 'black gold', cuttlefish is one of the most valuable species for fishing fleets in the South West of England. The Government is proposing new rules to safeguard numbers of the species but fis

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18/11/23 - Farming Today This Week: Falsified soil samples, brassicas and river health

The widespread use of fake evidence in planning applications from livestock farms may have led to increased water pollution in Northern Ireland, including the toxic blue-green algae we reported on thi

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Thanksgiving food traditions connect families across generations

“Apple cake is a very recipe–I’ve never heard of it anywhere else, seen it anywhere else. My gramma started it–for as long as I can remember we had it on Thanksgiving. It was served in

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17/11/2023

Farmers who continually have bovine TB outbreaks on their farms should find another business’. That was what Labour Welsh Senedd member Joyce Watson suggested on the floor of the Senedd earlier this w

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16/11/23 Faked evidence in livestock shed planning applications, sprouts

The widespread use of fake evidence in planning applications from livestock farms may have led to increased water pollution in Northern Ireland, including the toxic blue-green algae we reported on thi

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15/11/23 - NI badger cull, environmental payment stacking and brassica breeding

Farmers in Northern Ireland have been left wondering what's next after a proposal to cull badgers to prevent the spread of bovine TB was quashed by a court last month, which found the consultation beh

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14/11/23 - New Defra Secretary, white cabbage waste and Wilder Marches

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has new boss - former Health Secretary, Steve Barclay. The appointment comes after Therese Coffey stepped down during the Prime Minister's reshuf

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13/11/23 Sewage sludge on farmland, cauliflowers, dam removal

Campaigners have launched a legal challenge to the Government over the rules about fertilising farmland with sludge from sewage works. The group alleges it’s abandoned its pledge to protect farmland f

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11/09/23 Farming Today This Week: Sugar row, Horticulture report; Methane from livestock; B

The Government has intervened in an increasingly furious row between British Sugar and the National Farmers' Union over the price farmers will be paid for sugar beet next year.The future for fruit and

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Katherine Miller on how chefs can help shape our food system

“There’s a restaurant on almost every street in our various cities–they are woven into the fabrics of our communities, and they are deeply embedded in our lives. Restaurants are the places we go to ce

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10/11/23 Methane in livestock; Avian influenza and wild birds; Dairy exports

This week on the show, producer Toby Foster visits with one of the owners of Tacotarian in Los Vegas. They talk about the vision behind this vegan taco spot and explore the possibilities of both fake3