BBC Radio Podcasts from Farming Today
Farming Today This Week: food industry whistleblowers, red diesel, disease resilience, apprenticeships, Shetland wool, demo farm
Whistleblowers warn of the food industry's 'illusion of resilience'.
02/10/26 Food industry climate whistleblowers, farm apprenticeships, Plaid Cymru conference
Whistleblowers warning of the food industry's 'illusion of resilience'.
01/10/26 Red diesel; Labour party conference; getting into farming; the sound of worms.
Why spiralling red diesel prices could put some farmers in the red.
30/09/26 Nitrogen in soil, organic veg scheme, student bursaries.
A new way of looking at the nitrogen cycle helps reduce agricultural emissions.
29/09/2026: Precision breeding, Community farm, Mentoring on farm
Precision breeding, Community farm, Mentoring on farm.
28/09/2026: Disease resilience, getting young people into agriculture
Disease resilience, getting young people into agriculture.
26/09/26 Farming Today This Week: 'shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process; pulses; heating oil costs
The aftermath of the dash for cash from England's biggest environmental scheme.
25/09/2026: Heating oil costs, Bluetongue lessons, Beans as chicken feed
Heating oil costs, Bluetongue lessons, Fava beans as chicken feed.
24/09/26 'Shambolic' and 'disheartening' SFI application process, British baked beans
The aftermath of the dash for cash from England's biggest environmental scheme.
23/09/2026: Bluetongue, Defra funding, Growing pulses
Bluetongue causing infertility, Defra funding, Growing pulses
22/09/26 Potato yields, Pulse growing
Potato yields down; growing Carlin Peas in Carmarthenshire.
21/09/2026 Pulses, SFI 'haves and have-nots', agricultural advisor training
More beans please - should the UK be growing more pulses?
19/09/2026 The role of farming co-ops, Shepherd protests in Bucharest, International sheep dog trials
Calls for more farming co-ops; Farmer protests in Romania; International sheep dog trials.
18/09/2026: Lib Dem Party Conference, Glutinous Snails, BBC Awards finalists, The Farmers Wife on stage.
The Liberal Democrats want greater funding, and less red tape, for on-farm reservoirs.
17/09/26 Farmer protests in Romania, sheepdog trials, Scottish arable cooperative.
Violent clashes as shepherds in Romania protest over export ban of sheep.
16/09/26 Young trees in drought, wildfires, agricultural cooperative.
How will drought affect 1000s of newly planted young trees?
15.09.26 Calls for a rural reset, how to harvest small scale arable, dairy co-operative.
Calls for a complete rural reset - a new countryside campaign.
14/09/26 Calls for more farm co-ops, Hereford cattle dispute, flax and hemp
Calls for more ‘cooperative working’ amongst farmers.
Farming Today This Week 12/09/26 Bluetongue disease, Kelso Ram Sales, sheep rustling, farming without fossil fuels, Wild Summit.
Bluetongue cases top a thousand in the UK’s largest ever outbreak of this disease.
11/09/26 Bluetongue disease, sheep rustling, Kelso sheep sales
Bluetongue cases top a thousand in the UK’s largest-ever outbreak of the disease.
10/09/26 Sustainable dairy farming; Falkland salmon; tractor fuel from willow.
Dairy industry roadmap to a greener future.
09/09/2026 UK's self-sufficiency in food; bio-gas production on farm; Shetland's food.
New report says we are less self-sufficient in home-grown food than we were 30 years ago.
08/09/2026: Spy in the tractor cab? Surrey hops, The Experimental Farmer
A think tank warns high-tech farm gear could be used by China to spy on our food system.
07/09/26 Government call for evidence on gamebirds, farming without oil
A call for evidence on the welfare and environmental impact of releasing gamebirds.
Farming Today This Week 05/09/26 Bluetongue; food security; data centres; river DNA testing; corncrakes; dung beetle vet.
On the frontline - the government vets and scientists dealing with the bluetongue outbreak
04/09/26 National Audit Office report on food security resilience, corncrakes, late strawberries
The government ‘could do better’ at ensuring England’s food security.