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13/06/25 Bluetongue restrictions in Wales, bottom trawling, flour mill

Livestock moving into Wales will have to be tested in a bid to stop bluetongue.

Farming Today (12/06/2025): Farming reaction to the spending review

Farming reaction to the spending review.

110625: Bluetongue, journey of a loaf, food waste

Bluetongue restrictions, journey of a loaf, food waste.

Farming Today (10/06/2025): Sea pollution, genetic modification, farming bread

Marine pollution, genetically modified fish oil, farming for bread.

09/06/25 Onshore salmon farm plans, breeding wheat, dual-purpose poultry.

Plans for onshore salmon farm can go ahead after legal battle to block them fails.

07/06/25 Farming Today This Week: Farm incomes up, agri-tech innovation, Welsh Agriculture Bill, Open Farm Sunday, Namayasai

Eggs up, wheat down: what’s made the most cash for farmers?

04/06/25 - Animal disease outbreak preparedness, world hoof trimming cup and algae fertiliser

The government needs a new strategy for tackling animal disease outbreaks, a report says.

03/06/25 - Welsh Environment Bill, small abattoirs and smart cattle tech

The Welsh government sets out its plans to protect the environment and punish polluters.

02/06/25 - Possible DEFRA budget cuts, falcon breeding and farm innovation

Will England's farming budget survive the spending review?

31/05/25 Farming Today This Week: Drought in north west England; new reservoirs; national parks; golden eagles.

Drought is declared in the north west of England. Some farmers say their crops are ruined.

30/05/25 - Galloway National Park turned down, the impact of deer and rare breed passion

Plans for a new national park in Scotland are dropped.

29/05/25 New Reservoirs, Golden Eagles, Coastal National Park

Plans for two new reservoirs to be speeded up.

28/05/2025 - Galloway National Park, UK bioethanol production and fast tractors

Decision day nears for Galloway - will it get the UK's newest National Park?

27/05/25 National Parks, impact of dry weather, plastic in insects.

National Parks, wild camping and fly camping.

24/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: The EU-UK Summit

Caz Graham looks at what the EU-UK Summit means for food, farming and fishing.

23/05/25 - Vet meds, octopuses off Devon, Welsh bTB policy

Fears for the continued supply of veterinary medicine to Northern Ireland.

21/05/2025 The UK-EU deal, badger vaccination, Scottish climate targets

Could the UK-EU deal lead to newly set-up border control facilities being shut down?

20/05/2025 - The UK-EU Summit agreements, the impact of bovine TB

What will the UK-EU Summit agreements mean for food, farming and fishing?

19/05/25 Summit to 'reset' trading between EU and UK. Bovine TB.

The Cornish fishermen who say the EU UK summit to reset relations comes too late.

17/05/25 - Farming Today This Week: US Agriculture Secretary, chlorine chicken, call for inheritance tax pause, Balmoral Show

US Agriculture Secretary visits and MPs call for a delay to inheritance tax on farms.

16/05/25 -The Balmoral Show

Helen Mark reports from the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland.

The rise and rise of beef prices, carp growing, agroforestry

What's behind 2025's unprecedented increase in UK farmers' beef prices?

Foot and mouth personal meat import ban, gearing up for sheep shearing as overseas shearer visas granted

Travellers banned from bringing meat from the EU into the UK, due to Foot and Mouth risk.

12/04/2025 Farming Today This Week: Salmon Farming, Wildfire and Trade

Does the future of salmon farming lie in deeper water?