BBC Radio Podcasts from Farming Today
04/04/2026 Farming Today This Week: Ferry disruption, fishing industry hit by fuel costs, lambing, wild daffodils
Warnings ferry service disruption putting animal welfare at risk on Scottish islands.
03/04/26 "Muddy Fingers" McGurn
The potter using clay from the land to tell the story of a County Fermanagh farm.
02/04/26 Ferries and islanders on Barra, rare breed sheep, soil
Major disruption to Scottish ferry services and its toll on a small Hebridean island.
01/04/26 Rural fuel poverty; emissions from sheep; Marine Protected Areas.
Fuel poverty hits deeper and is growing more quickly in rural areas, new figures show.
31/03/26 Record livestock mart figures, lambing list, Ramblers report
Livestock markets report a record turnover - how much longer can high prices last?
30/03/2026: Fishing industry hit by fuel costs. A good time to be a sheep farmer? Wild Daffodils
The fishing industry seeks government help over spiralling diesel costs.
28/03/26 Farming Today This Week: trail hunting; impact of Middle East war; shellfish; geese; Victorian farming; farmer choir.
Trail hunting - the government wants to ban it, the consultation's started.
27/03/26: Trail hunting ban consultation, How WWII shaped farming
The government is pressing ahead with its ban on trail hunting in England and Wales.
26/03/26 Scottish rural policy, green gas, Victorian farming.
Scottish government reveals how farm support payments will work over next five years.
25/03/26 Environmental regulation, geese, The Enclosure Act and the farming landscape.
Should the Environment Agency and Natural England be merged?
24/03/26 Middle East conflict and supply chains, processing shellfish, medieval farming.
Will continuing conflict in the Middle East now lead to price hikes in the supermarket?
23/03/26 Potato oversupply, history of change in farming, new crop tech research centre
Have potatoes had their chips?
21/03/26 Farming Today This Week: Land Use Framework; heating oil help; new livestock worrying law; oat drink.
What difference will England's Land Use Framework make?
20/03/26 Commoners excluded from environmental schemes, bean processing, new science at the Commonwealth Potato Collection
Why nearly 4,000 farmers are excluded from the new environmental support schemes.
19/03/26 Land Use Framework, oat drink production
What difference will England's Land Use Framework make?
18/03/27 England's new land use framework
The government launches its new land use framework for England.
17/03/26 Energy bills in rural homes, new livestock worrying laws, processing venison
Government pledges £53 million to help vulnerable rural households pay for heating oil.
16/03/26: Impact of war on Ukraine's soil, village cut off by landslide, food processing
New research on the impact of war on the soils of Ukraine.
13/03/26 The foods of the future, farm incomes, chicken muck
Regulating foods of the future, for instance lab-grown meat, insects and 3D printed foods.
12/03/2026 Energy price impact on tomatoes, muck spreading, sheep shearing visas
Rising gas prices will put up the price of tomatoes.
11/03/2026 Inheritance tax for tenant farmers, young farmer training, sewage sludge
Concern about the impact of inheritance tax changes for tenant farmers.
10/03/2026 Abattoir charges, EU trade, slurry.
Meat trade says some abattoirs will be forced to close because of higher inspection costs.
09/03/26 Lead shot ban could hamper deer control, fertiliser, new loom for wool mill
A warning that plans to phase out lead ammunition may hit plans to control deer numbers.
07/03/26 Farming Today This Week: avian influenza vaccine; impact of war in Middle East on fuel and fertiliser; land use.
First UK trials of a bird flu vaccine.