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26/06/26 NI to miss its environmental targets, farming in the heatwave, farm campsite

Northern Ireland's government is warned it'll miss environmental targets

25/06/2026 The Farming Roadmap, emissions from agriculture, pigs in the heat

A landmark day for English farmers? The government's Farming Roadmap is launched.

24/06/2026 Agritourism - Aberdeen hosts the first global conference of its kind

Global agritourism: how producers around the world are inviting visitors onto their farms.

23/06/2026: Fighting wildfires, training sheep shearers, from hill farm to heritage events

Specialist wildfire firefighting teams are being introduced in England and Wales.

22/06/26 Agri-tourism, Scottish abattoir costs, seaweed cattle feed to reduce methane

Why more farmers are opening their gates to the public.

20/06/26 - Royal Highland Show, Scottish farming policy and South West octopus bloom

Caz Graham has the week's top rural stories - including a trip to the Royal Highland Show.

15/06/26 Octopus bloom, Scottish organic farming

Octopus bloom in the south west, organic farming in Scotland.

19/06/26 The Royal Highland Show and Scottish Government plans to cap prices on some essential foods.

Scottish government plans to cap prices on some foods in supermarket - who'll pay?

18/06/26 Change of Defra Farming Minister, Scottish greening policy, connected agri-tech

We hear why the farming industry really doesn’t like ministerial churn

17/06/26 Abattoir charges, pheasants and insects, Scottish farming with nature.

The abattoirs overcharged for official inspections.

16/06/26 Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy

Heathland birds, carabid beetles, Scottish agriculture policy.

13/06/26 Farming Today This Week

Budget revealed for farm environmental payments - but is it enough?

12/06/26 Sustainable Farming Incentive, Cereal farming in Cumbria

Sustainable Farming Incentive budget, growing cereals in Cumbria.

10/06/26 New bovine TB strategy for England, cereals

Getting rid of Bovine TB - a new strategy says cattle vaccination is the answer.

09/06/26 Flood funding, cattle cull, cereals

£50 million to help Somerset farming communities deal with growing threat of floods.

08/06/26 Brown or white eggs? The outlook for cereal farmers

The big egg debate: brown or white?

06/06/26 - Farming Today This Week: Dartmoor ponies, water voles and land-based jobs

Could new upland grazing rules mean the loss of Dartmoor ponies?

05/06/26 Dartmoor ponies, upland economics, Open Farm Sunday

Fears that Dartmoor may lose its iconic ponies.

04/06/26 High Court rules the Food Standards Agency overcharged abattoirs, hydropower funding, upland farmer groups

A victory for abattoirs as High Court rules the Food Standards Agency overcharged them.

03/06/26 EU trade agreement, peat restoration and water voles, Scottish uplands

EU alignment - farmers says it's hard to get ready for the change without more detail.

02/06/26 Rural skills gap, upland farming in Wales, Future Countryside.

Jobs in farming, fishing and forestry are not being filled because of a "skills squeeze".

01/06/26 Cost of wildfires, methane from sheep, upland farming

Mega wildfires - UK is the latest member of a club no one wants to join.

30/05/26 - Farming Today This Week: pig supply chain problems, hot weather impacts and singing farmers

Charlotte Smith looks at the biggest rural stories of the week.

29/05/26 Water abstraction, food inflation, local food systems.

Will the record breaking heat hit farmers irrigation plans this summer?