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Newest Episode: Fri September 03, 2010. 07:00 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 and Charlotte Smith, Farming Today goes out every weekday on Radio 4 at 0545 (14 minutes)and at 0635 on Saturdays (22 minutes).
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Fri September 03, 2010. 07:00 AM
With Caz Graham. Mince is now the nation's favourite cut of beef, but farmers say heavy discounts and reduced sales of more expensive cuts are hitting profits. We hear from one farmer who is quitting beef production after a family involvement of more than a hundred years. Farming Today also visits one of the few remaining medieval field systems in England.
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Thu September 02, 2010. 06:59 AM
Tony Blair describes bringing in the hunting ban as a major regret. Caz Graham reports.
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Wed September 01, 2010. 06:59 AM
Cows belong in fields, not in factories, according to a leading animal welfare charity who are opposed to the so-called 'mega-dairy' planned for Lincolnshire.
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Tue August 31, 2010. 06:59 AM
Anna Hill hears organised gangs are smuggling counterfeit food into the EU
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Mon August 30, 2010. 06:59 AM
Caz Graham visits a goat farm at the foot of Scafell Pike in the Lake District and discovers the challenges in raising goats in the rocky Lake District terrain.
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Sat August 28, 2010. 07:59 AM
Farming Today meets the farmers toiling on the land where fields meet the sea and discovers the challenges they face from the elements.
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Fri August 27, 2010. 07:00 AM
Presented by Anna Hill. Claims thousands of jobs could be threatened if the 'Mackerel Wars' escalate. Scientists have moved a step closer to developing wheat capable of resisting climate change, by mapping the crop's genetic makeup. And, we meet a farmer who says he'd 'be like a fish out of water' if he wasn't by the sea
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Thu August 26, 2010. 06:59 AM
The farmer who illegally sold cloned meat says if his animals end up abroad, we could end up eating them without knowing it. With Anna Hill
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Wed August 25, 2010. 06:45 AM
British woodlands are under attack from several major diseases. Anna Hill hears the character of our woodland could change as a result.
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Tue August 24, 2010. 07:00 AM
Over 10 tonnes of illegal cockles have been harvested. There are warnings they could contain ecoli and may have made it into the food chain.
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Mon August 23, 2010. 06:59 AM
Cath Mackie talks to wildlife campaigners picketing the constituency of George Osborne in protest at possible government cuts.
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Sat August 21, 2010. 07:30 AM
A year after the e-coli outbreak at Godstone Farm in Surrey, Cath Mackie asks if farms which open to the public are safe enough.
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Fri August 20, 2010. 07:00 AM
Cath Mackie hears about the Scottish Government's plans to crackdown on 'slipper' farmers who are claiming thirty million pounds of public money a year for doing nothing. Also, the Trading Standards investigation which found half the restaurants questioned in North Wales didn't have any evidence that the Welsh Lamb on their menus was actually from Wales.
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Thu August 19, 2010. 06:59 AM
As a farm is sued after an E. coli outbreak, Cath Mackie looks at safety on open farms.
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Wed August 18, 2010. 06:59 AM
UK Farmers must do more to protect wildlife according to a leading wildlife advisor. And we ask if there is such a thing as a micropig.
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Tue August 17, 2010. 06:59 AM
The debate on hi-tech solutions to rising food prices. With Cath Mackie
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Mon August 16, 2010. 06:57 AM
Caz Graham hears plans for an 8,000 cow dairy farm will be resubmitted, despite opposition
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Sat August 14, 2010. 07:59 AM
Farming Today reports on how droughts and wild fires in Russia and the Ukraine will affect the price of bread in the UK. Caz Graham follows the path of flour from field to loaf.
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Fri August 13, 2010. 07:00 AM
A labour recruiter who exploited migrant fruit and veg pickers in Lancashire has been stripped of his licence. Caz Graham talks to a drought stricken farmer from Russia. And, the innovation which ensures cows need never have itchy backs
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Thu August 12, 2010. 07:00 AM
Caz Graham hears how more meat linked to a cloned cow has been on sale. And after cod and tuna wars now there could be mackerel wars - the UK government is in dispute with Iceland and and the Faroe Islands over fish quotas.
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