BBC Radio Podcasts from Farming Today
17/04/26 Uplands review, The Peak District National Park.
New report suggests ways to transform uplands to support communities and landscapes.
16/04/26 Lough Neagh dredging, concerns about government labs in Northern Ireland, National Park dark skies, rural church crime
New research suggests dredging is affecting water quality in Lough Neagh.
15/04/2026 Fuel protests in Northern Ireland, waste licences, National Park peat restoration.
Tractor protests in Northern Ireland over spiralling fuel costs.
14/04/2026 Plastic costs, carbon tax, National Parks
Plastic costs, carbon tax, National Parks celebration.
13/04/26: Alternative fertilisers, Capercaillie in the Cairngorms.
The search for fertilisers which don't have to be imported, to lessen price shocks.
11/04/26 Farming Today This Week: Wildfires, bioethanol plant reopening, spring planting, oilseed rape
Why the risk of wildfires is so high in the spring.
10/04/12 Wildfire season and recovery after moorland fires last year, planting herbs
UK wildfire season and the farmer recovering after a moorland blaze last year.
09/04/26 C02 plant back up and running, planting in a bog, oilseed rape
Farmers can once again sell their wheat for bioethanol, as CO2 plant reopens.
08/04/26 Avian influenza, tenant farmer code in Wales, spring barley.
Free range poultry can range freely outdoors again as housing order is lifted.
07/04/2026 Illegal meat, geothermal glasshouse, spring planting
Illegal meat still breaching UK borders, with 14 tonnes seized at Dover in a single week.
06/04/26 Fifty Years of Photographing Farmers
Photographing the changing face of agriculture over fifty years.
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.