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Farming Today This Week: food industry whistleblowers, red diesel, disease resilience, apprenticeships, Shetland wool, demo farm

02/10/26 Food industry climate whistleblowers, farm apprenticeships, Plaid Cymru conference

01/10/26 Red diesel; Labour party conference; getting into farming; the sound of worms.

30/09/26 Nitrogen in soil, organic veg scheme, student bursaries.

29/09/2026: Precision breeding, Community farm, Mentoring on farm

28/09/2026: Disease resilience, getting young people into agriculture

26/09/26 Farming Today This Week: 'shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process; pulses; heating oil costs

25/09/2026: Heating oil costs, Bluetongue lessons, Beans as chicken feed

24/09/26 'Shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process, British baked beans

23/09/2026: Bluetongue, Defra funding, Growing pulses

22/09/26 Potato yields, Pulse growing

21/09/2026 Pulses, SFI 'haves and have-nots', agricultural advisor training

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, sheepdog trials, Scottish arable cooperative.

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

27/08/2026: Beef imports, Miscanthus

26/08/2026: gene editing, Bernard Matthews factory closure

25/08/2026: Milk prices, bluetongue, future crops

24/08/2026: bluetongue, future foods, farm app

22/08/26 Solar power - a panel discussion exploring the issues around solar development in the countryside.

21/08/2026: Drought farmer, biodiversity on solar farm, choral work

20/08/26 Salmonella in eggs, bees in drought, roof-top solar

19/08/2026 Village agricultural show

18/08/2026 Bluetongue, solar farm row, vineyards

17/08/2026 Drought aid, Solar farms

Farming Today This Week: New drought package for farmers, bluetongue, brassica crisis, hot salads, B12 peashoots, cherries.

14/08/2026 Brassicas, cherries, salad

13/08/26 Bluetongue in sheep, growing more UK fruit and veg, B12 in salads

12/08/2026 Controversial cattle cull, impact of drought on fish stocks, salads.

11/08/2026 Impact of bluetongue on farmers, harvest in Europe, glass house salads.

10/08/2026 Financial planning, farming in drought, salad

Farming Today This Week: Bluetongue cases continue to rise; impact of climate change on this year's harvest

07/08/2026 Resilient crops for a changing climate, planting in a drought, Sheeted Somerset cattle

06/08/26 Bluetongue cases on the rise, vaccination and testing for the disease. Harvest in Perthshire.

05/08/26 Scottish first minister on farming resilience; the cost of drought; harvest in Cumbria

04/08/26 Wheat harvest, waste whey, sheep farmers at risk from disease

03/08/26 Wildlife in drought, harvest 2026

Farming Today This Week 01/08/26 Drought, water abstraction, food inflation, bluetongue, young Cornish dairy farmer.

29/07/26: Cairngorms wildfire two weeks in, South Wales hare coursing, wildflower seed farm

31/07/26 Calls for a food system change, the reality of farming in drought, pressure on rivers

30/07/26 Drought, food inflation, bluetongue

28/07/26 Campylobacter in chickens, community market garden, research anniversary

27/07/26: Fresh produce checks, hot lettuce, BBC Farmwatch.

25/07/26 Farming Today This Week: What's the best use of land in Wales?

24/07/26: Drought declared in North Wales, investing in water security, river pollution in Pembrokeshire.

23/07/26 Royal Welsh Show

22/07/26 Sugar beet factory closing, new Defra secretaryfarm fires, , oil seed rape harvest, hill farming in Wales