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Farming Today
Newest Episode: Tue February 09, 2010. 05:59 AM
All rural life is here: daily news of food, farming, the countryside and the environment with analysis and context from the BBC's experts in the field. Presented by Anna Hill, Miriam O'Reilly, Charlotte Smith and Mark Holdstock, Farming Today goes out every weekday on Radio 4 at 0545 (14 minutes)and at 0635 on Saturdays (22 minutes.
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Tue February 09, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill hears plans for the Europe's largest dairy: 9000 cows on 1500 acres.
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Mon February 08, 2010. 05:59 AM
Charlotte Smith hears how a new strategy to better understand the sea, could lead to more accurate weather forecasts in the future. And hear how the Farming Today sow and her litter of piglets are getting on just weeks after their birth.
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Sat February 06, 2010. 08:00 AM
Charlotte Smith investigates whether the law which gave people in England and Wales more access to the countryside should be reviewed.
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Fri February 05, 2010. 05:59 AM
Farmers are set to lose £6 million as Birds Eye peas pull out of East Anglia. And Charlotte Smith hears warnings that a coastal footpath around England could ruin nesting sites for endangered birds.
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Thu February 04, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill hears how almost two-hundred farmers will lose out on millions of pounds, after one the biggest frozen food companies axes its contract with them. And Farming Today hears if a new code of practice for supermarkets will stop them using, what the National Farmers Union has described as 'bully boy tactics'.
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Wed February 03, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill hears how dog walkers could be unwittingly infecting farm animals with an incurable disease when they take their animals to the countryside. And after Farming Today told you about Chinese lanterns causing death and even injury to livestock, one company director defends his products.
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Tue February 02, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill hears that £50 million of tax-payers money will go to build a coastal path around England.
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Mon February 01, 2010. 05:59 AM
Farmers claim the growing craze for lighting chinese lanterns into the sky is killing and injuring livestock. They tell Farming Today the lanterns are also causing a litter problem and they want them banned.
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Sat January 30, 2010. 06:59 AM
Cherlotte Smith hears the green belt is under threat.
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Fri January 29, 2010. 05:59 AM
The Farming Today pig has become a proud mother of twleve little piglets and Charlotte Smith visits some green belt land in Oxford to look at future uses that would benefit the local community. Oliver Tickell suggests that green belt land be used as allotments and for growing fruit, as well as a leisure resource for communities living nearby.
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Thu January 28, 2010. 05:59 AM
As pressure grows to develop green belt land, Charlotte Smith hears from a farmer who says he won't sell his land despite being offered millions of pounds. Also, the National Farmers Union has reacted angrily against demands from conservationists that farmers should be rewarded for looking after wildlife rather than growing food.
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Wed January 27, 2010. 05:59 AM
A farmer fears he could go out of business because of persistent sheep rustlers. John Bishop's had hundreds of sheep stolen and says his insurance premiums are now so high he could lose everything.
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Tue January 26, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill reports on a new drug for better tasting pork. The need for it is apparently being driven by consumers who are turned off by bore taint - which gives an unpleasant taste and smell to pork. But the agency which runs the red tractor quality assurance scheme in the UK has warned farmers who use it here, that they won't be allowed to remain in the scheme.
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Mon January 25, 2010. 05:59 AM
Farming Today reports on the return of sheep to the Scilly Isles. The first flock for thirty years has been brought to the islands by a farmer hoping to sell the lamb locally. Charlotte Smith asks how important the Green Belt is and we pay the first visit to the Farming Today bees to see how they have fared through the winter.
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Sat January 23, 2010. 07:00 AM
A farmer fight's to stop TB infecting her prize herd of cattle. On Farming Today This Week, she tells Charlotte Smith why she thinks a badger cull planned in Wales is the right thing to do. We also hear from campaigners trying to stop the cull, and why they think a badger vaccination programme proposed in parts of England is the best solution.
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Fri January 22, 2010. 07:00 AM
The Scottish Government is spending 300,000 pounds to bring the parts of animals we usually throw away back onto our plates.
Its hoped eating offal could help generate 3 million pounds a year for the industry.
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Wed January 20, 2010. 05:59 AM
Anna Hill hears that rabbits are being milked to create drugs for stroke and heart-attack patients.
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Tue January 19, 2010. 05:59 AM
The scientist leading a new trial of genetically modified crops tells Anna Hill the case against GM has been lost
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Mon January 18, 2010. 07:00 AM
Multi-storey growing could be the future for growing vegetables in cities in the UK. Europe's first vertical farm is being piloted at Paignton Zoo in Devon.
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