Farming Today
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside
Farming Today - 01/01/2010
Anna Hill follows the progress of Dameon Layt, a new entrant to farming.
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Farming Today - 01/02/2010
Farmers claim the growing craze for lighting Chinese lanterns is killing and injuring livestock. They say the lanterns are also causing a litter problem and they want them banned.
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Farming Today - 01/03/2007
Rural magazine programme with agricultural news and features. Presented by Mark Holdstock.
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Farming Today - 01/03/2010
UK food exports have grown by 19 per cent during the recession. Charlotte Smith finds out how exports of cheese, pork and beer contribute to a market worth 14 billion pounds a year.
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Farming Today - 01/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Farming Today gets reaction to a survey which claims one in ten people are unable to identify a sheep.
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Farming Today - 01/04/2010
From today farmers will be paid to generate their own energy but will they get a fair price? Charlotte Smith finds out if it's worth the investment they will have to make.
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Farming Today - 01/05/2009
With Charlotte Smith. How scientists are hoping to solve the mystery of disappearing bees by videoing them 'waggle dance' and a report suggests upland communities feel overlooked.
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Farming Today - 01/06/2009
Caz Graham investigates a new report which calls for changes to industry practices for the nation's slaughterhouses, where 800 million birds are killed every year.
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Farming Today - 01/06/2010
The Environment Agency has denied its decision not to dredge rivers in Cumbria added to the problems caused by last November's floods.
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Farming Today - 01/07/2009
Bendy cucumbers and knobbly carrots are now back on our shop shelves. Anna Hill reports on the abolition of EU rules which prevented stores selling oddly-sized fruit and veg.
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Farming Today - 01/07/2010
Forty five people died in agriculture last year and farming is now more dangerous than the construction industry. Charlotte Smith hears if farmers are too complacent about safety.
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Farming Today - 01/09/2009
Charlotte Smith speaks to the farmer who has set a new UK and world record with the sale of one sheep for 231,000 pounds.
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Farming Today - 01/09/2010
Cows belong in fields, not in factories, according to a leading animal welfare charity who are opposed to the so-called 'mega-dairy' planned for Lincolnshire.
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Farming Today - 01/10/2009
As guns are loaded for the start of the pheasant shooting season, Charlotte Smith hears that shoots are suffering in the recession. Plus how the Farming Today bees are faring.
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Farming Today - 01/10/2010
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. There are warnings that a milk price war could force more dairy farmers out of business.
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Farming Today - 01/11/2010
Caz Graham hears Britain's seas will have a full planning system for the first time. The Marine Management Organisation tells Farming Today the fishing industry should benefit.
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Farming Today - 01/12/2009
Anna Hill speaks to the scientist who has grown meat in the laboratory for the first time.
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Farming Today - 02/02/2010
Anna Hill hears that 50 million pounds of taxpayers' money will go to build a coastal path around England, and an English wine wins the World Sparkling Wine Championships.
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Farming Today - 02/03/2010
Anna Hill takes a slippery walk through fields in East Anglia and hears surprising statistics which show that despite the snowfall, the winter has been drier than normal.
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Farming Today - 02/04/2009
With Charlotte Smith. Including a warning from hydrologists at Cranfield University that farmers could face a water shortage and Bristol City Council considers rearing its own beef.
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Farming Today - 02/04/2010
The English meat industry is going to carry out scientific tests to find out if the beef sold in supermarkets is too tough.
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Farming Today - 02/06/2010
There are fears that the trial cull of badgers in Pembrokeshire could lead to direct action from those who object to the plans.
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Farming Today - 02/07/2009
Farmers across the country fear they are facing another mapping fiasco. Charlotte Smith invesitgates the impact inaccurate maps could have on farmers' finances.
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Farming Today - 02/07/2010
Pesticide residues on food are apparently so low that there is no impact on human health. But Charlotte Smith hears calls for more government money to go to organic research.
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Farming Today - 02/08/2010
A 60-mile stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal will be closed today because of some of the worst drought conditions the North West has seen for a century.
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Farming Today - 02/09/2009
Farmland is often allowed to flood to reduce the risk to towns and cities, but Caz Graham hears how that costs us much needed home-grown food.
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Farming Today - 02/09/2010
Tony Blair confesses he regrets bringing in the hunting ban. Caz Graham hears why, and talks to those who tried to influence his opinion at the time. Plus, illegal meat imports.
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Farming Today - 02/10/2009
News and issues in rural Britain. Children's author Michael Morpurgo and the director of curriculum for England unite in a call for farming to be a central feature of education.
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Farming Today - 02/11/2009
Charlotte Smith hears that we're farming fewer breeds than ever before, to feed our desire for consistent cuts of meat.
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Farming Today - 02/11/2010
Anna Hill hears how private business may cash in on the proposed sale of state-owned woodland. Farming Today visits a private wood in Norfolk to see how it might work.
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Farming Today - 02/12/2009
With Anna Hill. Including a report on the rise in salmonella cases in the UK, and calls for the measures taken by British egg producers to reduce infections to be done elsewhere.
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Farming Today - 02/12/2010
As fertile Lincolnshire receives more than 30cm of snow, Charlotte Smith hears claims the UK may run short of fresh vegetables unless the weather changes.
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Farming Today - 03/01/2011
From supermarkets to subsidies, organic food to foot and mouth, for six decades The Archers have covered the changing world of farming. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Weatherill.
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Farming Today - 03/02/2010
Anna Hill Hears how dog walkers could be unwittingly infecting farm animals with an incurable disease when they take their animals to the countryside.
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Farming Today - 03/03/2010
Protestors against what could be Western Europe's largest dairy farm demand planners give them more time to have their say. Bad weather is causing anxiety for sugar beet farmers.
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Farming Today - 03/06/2009
Anna Hill looks at a booming future for UK-produced wine. Climate change could result in this country becoming one of the biggest wine-producing countries in Europe.
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Farming Today - 03/06/2010
A rallying call for 'citizen scientists' to try and halt the global decline in species, and how much water does a herd of 400 cows drink?
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Farming Today - 03/07/2009
Charlotte Smith finds out more about a possible new threat to beekeeping, and more farmers say that the maps their subsidies are based on are inaccurate.
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Farming Today - 03/08/2009
Dairy farmers who suffered major financial losses when Dairy Farmers of Britain collapsed are facing another round of price cuts.
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Farming Today - 03/08/2010
After claims that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow has illegally entered the food chain, the Foods Standards Agency launches an investigation. Caz Graham finds out more.
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Farming Today - 03/09/2009
Charlotte Smith investigates how the rain has affected this summer's harvest, and looks at the government's review of the much-maligned Rural Payments Agency.
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Farming Today - 03/09/2010
Mince is now the nation's favourite cut of beef, but farmers say discounts are hitting their profits. Plus, we visit one of the last medieval field systems in England.
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Farming Today - 03/11/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. Anna reports on the decline of the hen harrier, and discovers that the most common breed of British beef cattle is the Limousin.
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Farming Today - 03/11/2010
Haddock from sustainable stocks will now be clearly labelled, allowing shoppers to purchase fish that is not on the verge of extinction.
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Farming Today - 03/12/2007
Mark Holdstock asks Joyce D'Silva of the charity Compassion In World Farming how much work there is to be done in the welfare of animals supplied to supermarkets.
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Farming Today - 03/12/2009
As British farmers call for stricter checks to prevent importing eggs with salmonella, the WHO tells Charlotte Smith how they could do more to reduce risks on their own farms.
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Farming Today - 03/12/2010
Charlotte Smith hears about the struggle to get milk tankers to snow bound farms, how supermarkets are keeping stocked, and why sheep can predict when winter's coming.
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Farming Today - 04/01/2008
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock reports from the annual Oxford Farming Conference.
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Farming Today - 04/01/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that farming methods must change if we want to feed the world. There are warnings that unless rural wages rise, the countryside will become a retirement home.
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Farming Today - 04/01/2011
Anna Hill hears the lives of thousands of barn owls could be saved by technology. Britain's roads are death traps for owls, and the Hawk and Owl Trust are trying to make them safer.
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Farming Today - 04/02/2010
Anna Hill hears how almost 200 pea farmers will lose out on millions of pounds after Birds Eye terminates its contract with them.
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Farming Today - 04/03/2010
With Charlotte Smith. Rural life is under threat as people leave for the cities according to a report. For the first time in 12 years, commercial GM crops will be grown in the EU.
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Farming Today - 04/05/2009
Anna Hill visits an intensive broiler farm producing 800,000 chickens and asks what the future holds for British chicken growers.
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Farming Today - 04/05/2010
According to the BVA, the risk of an outbreak of bluetongue disease in Britain is rising because farmers are importing animals from infected areas in Europe.
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Farming Today - 04/06/2009
With more than one in three sawmills closing, Charlotte Smith reports on calls to revive Britian's dying woodland industry.
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Farming Today - 04/06/2010
The recent spate of wet summers has had an unpleasant effect on our beaches, pushing pollution from sewer and field into bathing waters. Caz Graham asks what more farmers can do.
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Farming Today - 04/08/2009
Anna Hill hears that London's criminals are seeking out shotguns, and with the grouse shooting season looming, rural gun owners may be targeted.
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Farming Today - 04/08/2010
The government gives the go-ahead for a supermarket watchdog, and a huge mussel farm is planned for Lyme Bay.
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Farming Today - 04/09/2009
Secret recordings in an abattoir show a worker allegedly mistreating animals. Charlotte Smith asks how widespread this type of behaviour might be.
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Farming Today - 04/10/2010
Over the past five years the price of lamb had doubled, which has been good for farmers but perhaps not so good for consumers. Charlotte Smith asks if lamb is now a luxury item.
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Farming Today - 04/11/2009
Farm machinery theft has risen to record levels - Eastern Europe's gangs are stealing to order. Anna Hill hears from insurers who are funding a police unit to control the problem.
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Farming Today - 04/11/2010
38 people died working on British farms last year, a sharp rise on the previous year's figure. We ask how farming can be made safer.
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Farming Today - 04/12/2007
The programme hears from Jonathon Porritt on why he believes farmers will need more support to enable them to help adapt to and combat a more volatile climate.
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Farming Today - 04/12/2009
A third of Welsh dairy farmers have left the industry over the last five years. A Welsh Assembly member tells Charlotte Smith that the Welsh dairy industry is too important to fail.
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Farming Today - 05/01/2010
New EU rules mean that all newborn sheep must be electronically tagged, but at what cost for sheep farmers? And a rate rise could threaten the future of livestock markets.
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Farming Today - 05/01/2011
Anna Hill finds out why free range egg producers say they face losses running into tens of thousands of pounds. Plus, the Norfolk farmer filling the 'hungry gap' for migrant birds.
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Farming Today - 05/02/2010
Farmers are set to lose 6 million pounds as Birds Eye pull out of East Anglia. Charlotte Smith hears how a coastal footpath around England could spell trouble for endangered birds.
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Farming Today - 05/03/2010
The French taste for British cheese has boosted exports to 281 million pounds a year. Charlotte Smith talks to the country's biggest exporter.
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Farming Today - 05/04/2010
The UK is the biggest grower of daffodils in the World. Farming Today visits one of the largest daffodil farms in the country to find out why they are such a success story.
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Farming Today - 05/05/2008
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock investigates how the British evolved from hunter-gatherers into farmers.
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Farming Today - 05/05/2009
Charlotte Smith asks why there will be less British chicken in the future.
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Farming Today - 05/05/2010
A record year for asparagus sales is expected as the first spears of the crop appear, and Anna Hill discovers how this year's harsh winter has affected the potato growing season.
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Farming Today - 05/06/2009
Charlotte Smith finds out why a milk co-operative collapsed, causing nearly 2,000 dairy farmers to lose out on thousands of pounds and leaving them facing an uncertain future.
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Farming Today - 05/07/2010
The Prince of Wales launches a Countryside Trust to raise money for rural communities, and Charlotte Smith reports on the Farming Today pigs as they head for the abattoir.
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Farming Today - 05/08/2009
Retailers will have to follow a strengthened code of conduct governing how they treat suppliers. But Anna Hill hears that a watchdog to police the code could still be some way off.
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Farming Today - 05/08/2010
As cloned meat enters the UK food chain, Caz Graham hears that the world must embrace the technology or mass starvation may result.
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Farming Today - 05/10/2009
It is conker season, but children may be disappointed this year as horse chestnut trees face a little invader with big consequences. Charlotte Smith finds out about 'leaf miner'.
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Farming Today - 05/10/2010
Anna Hill hears calls for ducks to be vaccinated against salmonella. Currently there is no legislation, despite duck eggs being implicated in a salmonella death earlier this year.
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Farming Today - 05/11/2009
The future role of the Holstein dairy cow. And how much wildlife can you buy for 400 million pounds? Charlotte Smith hears plans to encourage farmers to be environmentally friendly.
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Farming Today - 05/11/2010
Charlotte Smith hears claims from the RSPCA that chickens from Thailand enjoy better welfare than British birds. But the British Poultry Council disagrees.
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Farming Today - 05/12/2007
Charlotte Smith hears from the Country Land and Business Association president Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, about what exactly the problem is with micro generation.
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Farming Today - 06/01/2010
The Conservatives attack the government's new food strategy, calling it a 'Soviet-style' plan. Charlotte Smith reports from the Oxford Farming Conference.
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Farming Today - 06/01/2011
Anna Hill discusses government aspirations to phase out farm subsidies, at the Oxford Farming Conference.
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Farming Today - 06/04/2009
After 160 years, 2009 sees the final Royal Show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. Charlotte Smith examines what the Royal's demise might mean for other Agricultural Shows.
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Farming Today - 06/04/2010
Exmoor Ponies are currently grazing on the Sandlings Heathlands in Suffolk. Anna Hill went to find out more about them and why they are ideal for grazing rough pastures.
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Farming Today - 06/05/2009
Anna Hill reports on yet more price cuts for dairy farmers and ticket sales for the final Royal Show, which are up by more than 50 per cent.
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Farming Today - 06/05/2010
The rush is on to get the season's vegetables sown after the long harsh winter. And a report on the plight of Scottish wild birds following the freezing temperatures.
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Farming Today - 06/07/2009
Farmers may have to remove cows and calves from any fields with a footpath in, following the case of a woman trampled by cattle. Charlotte Smith reports.
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Farming Today - 06/07/2010
Anna Hill hears calls for polytunnels to be banned from National Parks. And the pigs Farming Today has been following get taken to the abattoir.
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Farming Today - 06/08/2009
Anna Hill hears the weather predictions for what's left of the summer and finds out why soft fruit farmers have done so well this year.
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Farming Today - 06/08/2010
Farmers supplying milk to one of the country's leading dairy food companies will be forced to sign a guarantee that it doesn't come from cloned cows.
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Farming Today - 06/09/2010
A massive mussel farm in Lyme Bay has been given the go-ahead and not everyone in the area is happy.
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Farming Today - 06/10/2009
Fewer than half the homes needed to cope with the growing demand for housing are being built; 'NIMBYs' are being blamed for the failure to meet the targets.
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Farming Today - 06/10/2010
Egg producers hope bigger cages for their hens will change the image of the industry, and Farming Today hears that worms are in need of a PR make-over.
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Farming Today - 06/11/2009
Alpaca owners demand TB testing for their animals, and Charlotte Smith continues her delve into common breeds with a look at the most popular type of laying hens.
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Farming Today - 06/12/2010
The farmers who are coping with roofs collapsing under the sheer weight of snow. Charlotte Smith hears one dairy farmer's narrow escape.
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Farming Today - 07/01/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that a shortage of food scientists could threaten future food supplies. The government chief scientist says the world must increase food production.
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Farming Today - 07/01/2011
The EU Agriculture Commissioner tells Farming Today that UK taxpayers must continue to subsidise farmers in the future.
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Farming Today - 07/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain. Anna Hill asks if enough is being done by farmers and the government to protect herds and flocks from bluetongue.
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Farming Today - 07/04/2010
Caz Graham hears why the British egg industry wants restaurants to tell us where they're getting their eggs from. Plus, how the Irish beef industry is faring in the recession.
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Farming Today - 07/05/2007
Agricultural news and features with Mark Holdstock, who meets a mole control expert.
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Farming Today - 07/05/2009
Charlotte Smith asks if retailers are driving chicken farmers out of the business. The supermarkets have been accused of taking too great a slice of the price of a chicken.
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Farming Today - 07/06/2010
Genetically modified potatoes will be planted in Norfolk this week. Caz Graham hears this contentious technology could save global agriculture billions of pounds.
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Farming Today - 07/07/2009
A new report says that British agriculture needs to employ more than 60,000 new people over the next ten years to maintain current levels of food production. Anna Hill investigates.
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Farming Today - 07/07/2010
Six months after their birth, it's the final chapter for the Farming Today pigs as they go off to the abattoir.
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Farming Today - 07/08/2009
Anna Hill reports on government plans to protect more of our regional speciality foods; and a new report examining the stress caused to farmers by bovine TB.
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Farming Today - 07/09/2009
Organised criminals are increasingly turning to stealing expensive farm equipment, which, it is claimed, is proving to be more lucrative and less risky than dealing in drugs.
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Farming Today - 07/09/2010
Police are fighting back against rural thieves by chemically 'tagging' tractor fuel. Anna Hill hears how that is just part of plans to cut the 42 million pound cost of rural thefts.
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Farming Today - 07/10/2009
Anna Hill reports on claims that newcomer NIMBYs are preventing affordable homes being built for local people, and how wild venison gets onto our plates.
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Farming Today - 07/10/2010
The UK's first solar farm has been approved and hundreds more sites are planned across the countryside. Charlotte Smith hears if the rural landscape is facing a dramatic change.
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Farming Today - 07/12/2009
Cumbrian farmers call for government help to save their land. Charlotte Smith hears that flood waters have left tons of gravel on the fields, and farmers have to foot the bill.
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Farming Today - 07/12/2010
A new study claims the cost of UK food would increase by 40% if no pesticides were used. Plus, Mistletoe's uncertain future. And, how bugs are being kept snug in snowy Norfolk.
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Farming Today - 08/01/2010
As the coldest snap in 30 years takes hold, how are farmers across the UK coping with the snow and ice? And Cath Mackie finds out what age farmers think they should retire.
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Farming Today - 08/02/2010
Charlotte Smith hears how a new strategy to better understand the sea could lead to more accurate weather forecast.
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Farming Today - 08/03/2010
Charlotte Smith hears how Scotland's bird life is dying in the cold. As dairy farmers get a 26 million pound EU handout, some say it's a drop in the ocean after years of low prices.
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Farming Today - 08/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. Is the age of British cheese coming to an end?
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Farming Today - 08/04/2010
Despite this year's cold winter, a new study reveals that spring is getting earlier. Nature records have shown that UK plants are flowering earlier each year.
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Farming Today - 08/05/2009
Charlotte Smith asks whether UK poultry-rearing standards are better than the rest of the world's and whether it would matter if the UK imported more and produced less.
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Farming Today - 08/06/2009
With Charlotte Smith. All Irish pork products were withdrawn after the dioxin contamination scandal. An Irish Parliament report says the traceability system has to be improved.
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Farming Today - 08/06/2010
Anna Hill hears how advances in plant genetics could help eliminate mildew. And a leading scientist explains why science alone can't decide whether GM foods should be developed.
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Farming Today - 08/07/2009
Anna Hill reports on what might replace the Royal Show as it closes its gates forever, and finds out that smallholders could benefit.
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Farming Today - 08/07/2010
The Environment Agency is not delivering value for money when tackling diffuse water pollution in rivers and waterways, according to a report from the National Audit Office.
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Farming Today - 08/09/2009
Anna Hill reports on the return of the European butter mountain, which is currently large enough to spread on eight billion slices of toast.
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Farming Today - 08/09/2010
Anna Hill reports from the Dairy Event 2010, the UK's largest livestock trade show, to look at the challenges facing dairy farmers in the months and years ahead.
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Farming Today - 08/10/2009
Should we use chlorine on our chickens to cut down on food poisoning? Plus horses being sold off cheaply because owners can no longer afford them. With Anna Hill.
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Farming Today - 08/10/2010
Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy will not signal a massive overhaul of the policy according to leaks from Brussels as the future of farming is debated in Europe.
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Farming Today - 08/11/2007
In the aftermath of foot and mouth disease, farmers in the South East describe as 'absurd' the measures imposed on them in order to allow the restrictions elsewhere to be lifted.
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Farming Today - 08/11/2010
The price of food is rising - we ask how long it will be before it hits shoppers where it hurts - in our pockets and purses. And Farming Today takes a closer look at cow manure...
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Farming Today - 08/12/2009
The food strategy for the 2012 Olympics has been described as the largest ever peace-time food effort. But Anna Hill hears claims it could be 'greener'.
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Farming Today - 09/02/2010
Anna Hill hears plans for Europe's largest dairy farm. It's been welcomed as a sign of confidence in the industry, but welfare groups are concerned animal health will suffer.
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Farming Today - 09/03/2010
The UK produces 16 times as many chickens as it did 50 years ago. Anna Hill visits one of the UK's largest producers. Plus, proposals for the Welsh dairy herd to be kept indoors.
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Farming Today - 09/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Chris Impey. New visa regulations are forcing globetrotting shearers to return home for finger-printing before they are allowed into the UK.
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Farming Today - 09/04/2010
The bling that's ruining the countryside. Charlotte Smith hears about a campaign to remove cultivated daffodils from grass verges in the UK.
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Farming Today - 09/06/2009
Farming has its third minister in three years after Jane Kennedy's resignation. The President of the NFU tells of his frustration at such a high turnover.
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Farming Today - 09/06/2010
News and issues in rural Britain. Amid calls for a cull of urban foxes, the programme hears that numbers are in decline. Anna Hill visits the site of the UK's only GM crop trial.
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Farming Today - 09/07/2009
The final Royal Show. Charlotte Smith hears the memories and hopes of champions and judges, and we find out how the honey from the Farming Today bees has fared.
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Farming Today - 09/07/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that two million pounds will be invested in rural broadband for Wales. The Country Land and Business Association say it isn't enough to make a real difference.
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Farming Today - 09/08/2010
As global grain prices soar, farmers fear animal feed prices will follow and the British Retail Consortium see no need for the government's new supermarket adjudicator.
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Farming Today - 09/09/2009
The search for British eggs in our processed foods. We import 100,000 tonnes of eggs each year, and with current food labelling rules, you won't know whether they're British or not.
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Farming Today - 09/09/2010
Fears that slurry at a proposed 8,000 cow dairy farm may damage the health of Lincolnshire villagers. Nocton Dairy plans to submit the planning proposal later this month.
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Farming Today - 09/10/2009
Charlotte Smith hears accusations that supermarkets are damaging our beef industry. As new plans to control TB in cattle are announced, farmers tell us that a cull is inevitable.
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Farming Today - 09/11/2007
Getting hold of a turkey this Christmas could be harder and more expensive. Workers at Europe's biggest turkey producer are preparing to go on strike.
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Farming Today - 09/11/2009
Farmers and landowners are lining up to offer their land for wind turbines. Each turbine can earn them around 20,000 pounds a year - but only if planning permission is granted.
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Farming Today - 09/11/2010
Plans for the UK's biggest dairy farm will be scaled back after criticism from locals and animal rights groups. Anna Hill hears Nocton Dairy will now have fewer cows.
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Farming Today - 09/12/2009
PDOs, PGIs and TSGs are all labels used by farmers and food producers to prevent others imitating their product. Anna Hill finds out what the acronyms mean.
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Farming Today - 10/01/2011
UK food manufacturers say that importing eggs is the only way to insure a reliable supply, despite the dioxin contamination scare in German eggs.
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Farming Today - 10/02/2007
Rural magazine programme for those who live, work or have an interest in the countryside. Presented by Miriam O'Reilly.
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Farming Today - 10/02/2010
Culling badgers is an expensive and inefficient way of controlling TB according to a new study, and a farmer explains why he's keen to have the ban on smoked sheep meat lifted.
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Farming Today - 10/03/2010
Farmers face subsidy cuts if they fail to do their cattle paperwork. More than 2,500 farms failed to notify the authorities about births and deaths.
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Farming Today - 10/05/2010
Slugs are a major pest on farms and in gardens but farmers are now being told to significantly reduce the amount of slug pellets they use or the pesticide will be banned.
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Farming Today - 10/06/2009
Charlotte Smith hears from a leading scientist who says dairy cows are being 'milked to starvation'.
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Farming Today - 10/06/2010
Farming Today reports from Cererals 2010, the largest arable show in Europe, on the ways farmers are planning to produce more food to feed a growing world population.
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Farming Today - 10/07/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. The government now allows farmers to voluntarily support wildlife, but some farmers refuse.
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Farming Today - 10/08/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. Will we need to change what we eat to ensure the security of our food supply?
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Farming Today - 10/08/2010
Caz Graham hears consumers will pay the price for the surge in wheat prices. Prices doubled in just six weeks, with money being made across the world, betting harvests will fail.
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Farming Today - 10/09/2009
Charlotte Smith investigates whether wind turbines are causing noise pollution. The British Wind Energy Association says that there is little evidence to support complaints.
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Farming Today - 10/09/2010
Farming Today asks how difficult it is to make money from dairy farming and finds out how close the UK is to the eradication of the disease bluetongue.
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Farming Today - 10/11/2009
Anna Hill visits the top of a 100-metre-high wind turbine and hears objections to plans to double their number in the UK by 2020.
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Farming Today - 10/11/2010
One farmer says he will take the law into his own hands if trespassing on his land continues. Farming Today meets Derek Cornforth in Yorkshire who wants action to stop rural crime.
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Farming Today - 10/12/2007
Will pig farmers campaigning for better returns be hamstrung by the OFT's ruling on supermarket milk price fixing? And what are farmers doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
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Farming Today - 10/12/2009
How a disagreement on labelling almost created a war of two sausages. And how the country's biggest fruit and veg market is upset with its neighbours, the Olympic Games.
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Farming Today - 10/12/2010
Caz Graham hears it could be the end of the road for misleading food labels. At the moment, Danish bacon and Thai chicken can be labelled as British if it is processed in the UK.
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Farming Today - 11/01/2008
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock reports from the annual Oxford Farming Conference.
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Farming Today - 11/01/2010
Farmers battle through freezing fields but the unpredictable weather is here to stay according to one leading scientist; Sea-Eagles may make a return to East Anglia.
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Farming Today - 11/01/2011
Anna Hill hears claims that many environmental labels on fish are misleading. Client Earth reviewed 100 fish products sold in supermarkets and says 32 used misleading terms.
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Farming Today - 11/02/2010
Charlotte Smith hears from the man Prince Charles has asked to make wool popular again.
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Farming Today - 11/03/2010
More government money is promised for Cumbrian farmers who were flooded last year, and Farming Today reports how the harsh winter weather has hit the Scottish Forestry Industry.
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Farming Today - 11/05/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Declining demand for wool means that sheep could be farmed to grow hair rather than fleeces.
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Farming Today - 11/05/2010
Four million workers left agriculture in the EU between 2000 and 2009. Why has there has been a 25 per cent slump in farm workers while incomes from agriculture have risen?
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Farming Today - 11/06/2009
With domestic beef and dairy industries struggling, record levels of exports are providing some good news. Charlotte Smith reports.
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Farming Today - 11/06/2010
Imports of queen bees from Hawaii to the UK have been stopped to halt the spread of a serious disease. The small hive beetle which destroys bee hives has been found in Hawaii.
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Farming Today - 11/08/2009
With Anna Hill. A look at the sport of grouse-shooting as the season starts on 12 August and the Vegetarian Society offers its view on how to achieve reliable food supplies.
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Farming Today - 11/08/2010
Caz Graham learns about proposals from the European Parliament which could stop some UK milk being labelled 'fresh'. Plus, the case for burning more British barbecue charcoal.
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Farming Today - 11/09/2009
There has been a significant increase in the amount of poaching in the countryside. It has now become so profitable that police believe organised gangs are largely responsible.
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Farming Today - 11/10/2010
One in five rivers in England and Wales does not meet quality standards according to Defra. Charlotte Smith asks why and if enough is being done about it.
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Farming Today - 11/11/2009
Anna Hill hears from a landowner who has turned down the opportunity to earn thousands by refusing to have a wind farm. Plus Andy Biggs on vaccinating badgers to fight bovine TB.
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Farming Today - 11/11/2010
There are calls for England's National Parks to be sold to raise money for the government, and Farming Today finds out who is making money from the rising cost of food.
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Farming Today - 11/12/2009
The Cornish Sardine has become Britain's 40th officially protected food, and Cath Mackie meets a smallholder looking to make her fortune in honey.
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Farming Today - 12/01/2010
Farmers face dead livestock and a downturn in business due to the big freeze. One farmshop owner says the weather has proved catastrophic for his livelihood.
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Farming Today - 12/01/2011
As the authorities continue to deal with the dioxin food scare in eggs, a British food writer says the traceability of our food is too complicated. Anna Hill hears why.
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Farming Today - 12/02/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that farm land prices have risen 164 per cent in ten years, beating the London housing market and the FTSE 100 share index.
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Farming Today - 12/03/2010
Charlotte Smith hears about the jailing of a man for selling imported battery eggs as British, free-range and organic.
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Farming Today - 12/04/2010
Europe's largest dairy farm is put on hold and local residents breathe a sigh of relief. And for the first time in 17 years, sales of organic food have fallen.
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Farming Today - 12/05/2009
Anna Hill hears from a conservation award-winning farmer who argues for financial incentives to cull Magpies. But the RSPB argues there's no evidence they affect songbird numbers.
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Farming Today - 12/05/2010
The re-introduction of sea-eagles has not resulted in more lambs being taken in Scotland according to a new report from Scottish Natural Heritage.
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Farming Today - 12/06/2009
Charlotte Smith on how farmers are coping following the collapse of a milk co-operative, and how 170 jobs and 250 farms are saved after the sale of a threatened Welsh creamery.
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Farming Today - 12/07/2010
The planned supermarket ombudsman will be further delayed by what some are calling the government's 'cumbersome' approach. Plus why bees need laws. With Charlotte Smith.
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Farming Today - 12/08/2009
As the shooting seasons begins, Anna Hill goes on a deer stalk. With food security moving up the political agenda, could science provide the solution to securing food supplies?
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Farming Today - 12/08/2010
More meat linked to a cloned cow has been on sale. And after cod and tuna wars, now there could be mackerel wars.
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Farming Today - 12/10/2009
Presented by Charlotte Smith. The President of the National Farmers Union accuses organic groups of using 'scare tactics' to promote their produce.
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Farming Today - 12/10/2010
Could cloned food be back on the menu? Anna Hill hears the government are reviewing the rules on cloned animals.
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Farming Today - 12/11/2009
Charlotte Smith investigates the Liberal Democrats' claims that hill farming could die out within a decade, and their accusations that Natural England are ignoring the issue.
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Farming Today - 12/11/2010
A Defra-funded study reveals 70 per cent of ducks bought in English butchers, game dealers and supermarkets have been shot with lead shot despite it being banned 11 years ago.
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Farming Today - 12/12/2007
Charlotte Smith hears about a new report which says it's getting harder to buy fresh produce in many parts of the country. Plus, the farm shop which has just opened in a hospital.
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Farming Today - 13/01/2010
Anna Hill on fears that sheep may be losing their inbred knowledge of how to cope in heavy snow, and scientists explain how cold weather can be beneficial for agricultural pests.
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Farming Today - 13/01/2011
Veg growers are counting the cost of the cold weather as fields of cauliflowers have rotted in the ground before they can be harvested. Presented by Sarah Swadling.
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Farming Today - 13/04/2009
Chris Impey asks whether the dairy Holstein breed is being pushed too far, as welfare groups say the cows are having to produce more milk than their bodies can cope with.
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Farming Today - 13/04/2010
The local NFU criticises those who opposed plans to build the UK's largest dairy farm in Lincolnshire, as developers pull plans for an 8,100-cow operation. Presented by Caz Graham.
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Farming Today - 13/05/2009
News and issues in rural Britain. Anna Hill finds out why the recession means that some organic farmers cannot sell all their milk at a premium.
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Farming Today - 13/05/2010
Fight for more European money for farmers, and do more to protect wildlife - just some of the advice offered to the new government. Charlotte Smith reports.
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Farming Today - 13/07/2009
Anna Hill hears that guaranteeing an adequate food supply is a major challenge for the UK.
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Farming Today - 13/07/2010
Anna Hill hears speculation that the Food Standards Agency is to close. Set up after the BSE crisis to look after food safety and public nutrition, the FSA may now face the axe.
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Farming Today - 13/08/2009
With Caz Graham. Field sports enthusiasts explain why shooting is good for children, and Caz goes on a grouse shoot.
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Farming Today - 13/08/2010
A labour recruiter who exploited migrant fruit and veg pickers in Lancashire has been stripped of his licence. Caz Graham talks to a drought stricken farmer from Russia.
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Farming Today - 13/09/2010
Charlotte Smith on calls for officials to buy more British food for the public sector. Two billion pounds is spent per year but some departments buy over half their food abroad.
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Farming Today - 13/10/2009
As sales of organic food fall, two major supermarkets cut their organic ranges by a third. Anna Hill hears this has left organic growers with difficult business decisions.
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Farming Today - 13/10/2010
The government calls for CCTV in abattoirs, to protect animal welfare. But Anna Hill hears that, despite a series of serious breaches, the cameras will be voluntary.
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Farming Today - 13/11/2009
New research suggests more than half of horse owners can't tell when their animal is overweight. An estimated 40 per cent of horses in Britain are too fat.
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Farming Today - 13/12/2007
Anna Hill hears a forecast that farming's contribution to the economy could increase next year, but does the headline conceal a difficult year ahead for some farmers.
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Farming Today - 13/12/2010
The Ramblers Association are warning that the countryside will become closed off as councils across the country cut money from footpaths.
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Farming Today - 14/01/2010
The government has announced that it will set up a supermarket ombudsman. Charlotte Smith finds out what difference it will make to farmers, retailers and shoppers.
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Farming Today - 14/01/2011
British scientists have created the world's first genetically modified chicken, designed not to spread bird flu. But it might not be farmed here if there's public opposition.
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Farming Today - 14/05/2009
News and issues in rural Britain. Charlotte Smith finds out whether farmers are to blame for declining numbers of farmland birds in the south of England.
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Farming Today - 14/05/2010
Farm subsidies now cost each taxpayer 70 pounds per year. Charlotte Smith hears that 29 farm businesses received more than one million pounds in subsidy last year.
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Farming Today - 14/06/2010
A controversial cull of badgers in Wales will now be delayed, while the courts decide on its legality, and Charlotte Smith hears how would-be farmers can obtain land.
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Farming Today - 14/07/2009
The number of Bovine TB cases among alpaca herds in the UK is rising, with 14 herds under movement restrictions. Anna Hill reports on why farmers claim the test is not accurate.
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Farming Today - 14/07/2010
As the Welsh badger cull is scrapped Anna Hill asks whether the planned cull in England is likely to happen. Many farmers say controlling badgers is crucial to reduce TB in cattle.
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Farming Today - 14/08/2009
Interest in keeping pigs in gardens is growing, so much so that a major DIY chain is looking to stock pig arks. Caz Graham asks what a responsible suburban pig keeper ought to know.
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Farming Today - 14/09/2009
What effect will an outbreak of E-coli at a farm park have on efforts to encourage farm visits? Four children are seriously ill in hospital following the outbreak in Surrey.
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Farming Today - 14/09/2010
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. The National Trust hopes to reverse the trend for processed foods by promoting regional specialities and local flavours.
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Farming Today - 14/10/2009
A convert to organic farming tells Anna Hill you can't make a living from small organic farms. While a rural estate agent says farmland will double in price in the next five years.
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Farming Today - 14/10/2010
As Government funded groups brace themselves for next week's budget cuts Charlotte Smith hears the RSPB's ideas to make the polluter pay for environmental projects.
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Farming Today - 14/11/2007
Acting chief vet Fred Landeg tells the programme how Animal Health officers and vets are checking poultry farms for avian flu after the H5N1 strain was found at a Suffolk farm.
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Farming Today - 14/12/2009
Charlotte Smith hears that goose sales are on the rise as an alternative to turkey and about plans for all Olympians to go to work on a free range egg.
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Farming Today - 14/12/2010
There are new plans to move the responsibility and cost of animal disease outbreaks from the taxpayer to animal keepers, but the NFU fears farmers won't have enough say.
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Farming Today - 15/01/2008
News and issues in rural Britain. Anna Hill discusses why there is no national standard for free range pigs that would ensure consumers get what they expect for the premium price.
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Farming Today - 15/01/2010
New research has found shoppers are still confused over what 'produced in the UK' means on food labels, despite 78 per cent of meat products now stating the country of origin.
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Farming Today - 15/02/2010
A new film which is said to expose some realities about how American food reaches the table is causing controversy among the farming industry in the UK.
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Farming Today - 15/03/2010
Fifty per cent of fish eaten in the world are now farmed, up from nine per cent in 1980. Charlotte Smith hears how the UK's cashing in, as Scottish salmon exports grow by a quarter.
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Farming Today - 15/04/2009
Redundancies and slashed bonuses mean city slickers are no longer buying up the British countryside. Anna Hill investigates.
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Farming Today - 15/04/2010
Caz Graham hears how the current generation are more likely to grow their own fruit and vegetables compared to the past thirty years. The Royal Horticultural Society explains why.
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Farming Today - 15/05/2009
Charlotte Smith hears about new research on the effects of sheep dip on farmers, as the latest study suggests that even low levels of exposure may have an impact on health.
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Farming Today - 15/06/2009
Following the collapse of a major dairy cooperative, rock-bottom prices could force hundreds of farmers out of business. Charlotte Smith reports.
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Farming Today - 15/06/2010
Farms could close their doors to visitors, following a report into last year's E.coli outbreaks at Godstone Farm. Anna Hill reports.
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Farming Today - 15/07/2009
Anna Hill visits a Suffolk farmer who is warning that human lives could be at risk after seven of his cows were electrocuted when a power cable fell into a field of dairy cattle.
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Farming Today - 15/07/2010
Charlotte Smith becomes a seasonal worker on a fruit farm. By living in a caravan, picking and packing fruit, the Farming Today team experience the life of a migrant worker.
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Farming Today - 15/09/2009
Following an E coli outbreak at a farm in Surrey, Anna Hill looks at the risks of opening farm gates to the public. And a bumper oyster harvest gives the fishing industry a boost.
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Farming Today - 15/09/2010
With Anna Hill. The first steps towards a cull of badgers is to be announced. And British apple growers are reporting their best tasting harvest in years.
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Farming Today - 15/10/2009
The government is accused of continuing to waste taxpayers' money on managing English farmers' subsidy payments.
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Farming Today - 15/10/2010
Charlotte Smith asks how rural communities will be affected by the bonfire of the quangos. Defra will scrap more than 50 bodies, and radically reform the Environment Agency.
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Farming Today - 15/11/2007
Charlotte Green investigates a new logo that is beginning to appear on some food labels as part of a pilot scheme from the Carbon Trust, telling us the product's carbon footprint.
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Farming Today - 15/11/2010
Around a quarter of the national dairy herd is lame at any one time, according to animal welfare researchers. Charlotte Smith asks if farmers should do more to protect cow welfare.
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Farming Today - 15/12/2009
Anna Hill meets a farmer working flat out to gather the parsnip crop for the Christmas table. Charlotte Smith visits an aerobic digester that turns food waste into rich fertiliser.
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Farming Today - 16/02/2010
Anna Hill visits the world's largest straw-burning power station. And Britain's sexiest farmers explain how their image can help the industry.
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Farming Today - 16/03/2010
The sheep that shear themselves... almost! A report on the cross-bred sheep that sheds its own fleece. And a study aiming to find ways to reduce river pollution from farm run-off.
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Farming Today - 16/04/2009
What do British farmers want from Europe? Charlotte Smith finds out, as their union leaders launch a manifesto in Brussels. And why is the Holstein dairy cow going out of fashion?
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Farming Today - 16/04/2010
An urban paradise? Charlotte meets people growing their own veg in the heart of London and hears how the London Food Tzar aims to have 2012 new growing spaces by the 2012 Olympics.
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Farming Today - 16/06/2009
Caz Graham hears from producers struggling to find a new milk contract after the collapse of the co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain.
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Farming Today - 16/06/2010
Farmers insist that their farms are safe, clean and open for business, and Farming Today discovers how to make money from upland woodlands.
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Farming Today - 16/07/2009
Farming must reduce its carbon emissions by six per cent over the next ten years. Charlotte Smith invesigates whether this is a realistic target or if it is too low.
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Farming Today - 16/07/2010
Day 2 in the Farming Today caravan, and Charlotte has an early start picking strawberries. The team see for themselves how summer fruits get from field to plate.
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Farming Today - 16/08/2010
Caz Graham hears plans for an 8,000 cow dairy farm will be resubmitted, despite opposition from the RSPCA. The man behind the development says he has addressed all welfare concerns.
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Farming Today - 16/09/2009
The funeral business has presented a new opportunity for sheep farmers: woollen coffins. Farming Today visits the Yorkshire Mill where the coffins are stitched together.
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Farming Today - 16/09/2010
Farmers in England may be able to shoot badgers to help control TB in cattle. Charlotte Smith talks to farming minister Jim Paice, who believes culling the animals is essential.
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Farming Today - 16/10/2009
Charlotte Smith toasts a good year for English wine. Plus a farmer who thinks it's also a good year for organic farming, and a cosmetics firm backs the Hunt Saboteurs Association.
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Farming Today - 16/11/2009
Rural crafts like hedge laying, thatching and dry-stone walling have recently been on the decline, but are young workers starting to turn that tide?
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Farming Today - 16/12/2009
Anna Hill assesses the state of the fishing industry with the help of Nikki Hale of the Eastern England Fisheries Association. Meetings are taking place about future fishing quotas.
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Farming Today - 17/01/2011
Livestock shouldn't be taken to market in the 21st century, according to a former NFU Vice-President. Caz Graham hears why Paul Temple thinks a radical change is needed.
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Farming Today - 17/02/2010
Anna Hill finds out why Red Deer are starving in some parts of Scotland, and how the Daffodil harvest in Cornwall is behind schedule - not necessarily a bad thing for the grower.
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Farming Today - 17/03/2010
Butterflies are under threat, according to a new report; Anna Hill finds out why. Also, bees are emerging from the hive but what will the year bring for the honeybee?
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Farming Today - 17/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Charlotte hears about the latest animal theft from a farmer - of a million bees.
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Farming Today - 17/05/2010
Charlotte Smith examines Defra's three billion pound budget, and looks where cuts might fall. Plus a cider-maker explains the challenge of growing champion apples.
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Farming Today - 17/06/2009
Anna Hill reports on why calls to a farming helpline have tripled following the collapse of Dairy Farmers of Britain.
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Farming Today - 17/06/2010
National Parks warn landscapes may suffer, as the government cuts their budget, and Charlotte Smith hears that country of origin labels may become compulsory for fresh food.
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Farming Today - 17/07/2009
Anna Hill investigates what changes farmers are going to have to make over the next ten years to reduce carbon emissions by six per cent.
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Farming Today - 17/08/2009
A shake-up to subsidies for Welsh farmers means some organic producers will lose up to 80 per cent of their payment, which producer groups say will force many out of the industry.
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Farming Today - 17/08/2010
UK food prices have risen by nearly 60 per cent in three years. Some scientists say lab-grown meat in vats could help bring global prices down. Cath Mackie reports.
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Farming Today - 17/09/2009
Charlotte Smith hears that we're importing over 1 million litres of milk a day, but Farming Minister Jim Fitzpatrick tells us we don't need to be self-sufficient.
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Farming Today - 17/09/2010
There's been a significant rise in the number of sheep being stolen from farmers fields in the last 18 months. It's believed the high price of lamb is to blame for the increase.
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Farming Today - 17/11/2009
There's a lack of funding in agricultural research, according to Lord Taylor of Holbeach. Anna Hill talks to Lord Taylor about the importance of research funding.
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Farming Today - 17/11/2010
Protests against plans for Britain's largest ever dairy farm show no signs of dying down as an MP calls for a debate in the House of Commons about the controversial plans.
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Farming Today - 17/12/2007
Anna Hill finds out why flooded Russian mines and troubled diplomatic relations with Iran are helping to push up food production costs in the UK.
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Farming Today - 17/12/2009
Charlotte Smith hears from one farmer how the Defra fund available for flooded farmers is not enough and the programme visits a Brussels sprout farmer in Lincolnshire.
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Farming Today - 18/01/2010
A multi-storey method could be the future way of growing vegetables in cities in the UK. Europe's first vertical farm is being piloted at Paignton Zoo in Devon.
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Farming Today - 18/01/2011
Anna Hill hears a warning from the motor industry that rural petrol stations could disappear by the end of the decade. And, how food companies monitor the safety of ingredients.
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Farming Today - 18/02/2010
Anna Hill hears that the cold weather could mean fewer British strawberries in the shops this summer. Scottish strawberry growers are set to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Farming Today - 18/03/2010
Scottish farmers speak out against a campaign to put the clocks forward. Charlotte Smith hears that what could be good for south-west tourism may be bad news for northern farmers.
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Farming Today - 18/05/2009
Charlotte Smith hears about plans to re-introduce the black bee to the UK. She also finds out about the latest research into animal disease.
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Farming Today - 18/05/2010
As Natural England look at reintroducing sea eagles in East Anglia, farmers consider keeping lambs in polytunnels, to protect them from the birds of prey. Anna Hill reports.
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Farming Today - 18/06/2009
Hundreds of dairy farmers may have to throw milk away if they fail to find a buyer. Charlotte Smith investigates the long term impact of the collapse of a large milk co-operative.
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Farming Today - 18/06/2010
Another plan for a mega dairy housing thousands of cows is withdrawn and Gloucester Old Spot pork is given European protected food status.
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Farming Today - 18/08/2009
Charlotte Smith hears about calls for a fundamental review of the way police deal with wildlife crime; 100 conservation groups say it is not being taken seriously enough.
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Farming Today - 18/08/2010
UK farmers must do more to protect wildlife according to a leading wildlife advisor. Plus, is there such a thing as a micropig?
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Farming Today - 18/09/2009
After an outbreak of E.coli on a farm in Surrey, Charlotte Smith explores the risks posed by the disease. Plus, a vet says TB is out of control and could damage trading relations.
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Farming Today - 18/10/2010
Farming Today visits the largest dairy farm in the USA, home to 32,000 cows. This mega-dairy is a model for the controversial 8,000 cow dairy planned for Lincolnshire.
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Farming Today - 18/11/2009
Anna Hill hears that the world's largest dairy is to be built in London. Plus, straw houses could be the future, benefitting farmers and the environment.
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Farming Today - 18/11/2010
Plans for Britain's largest dairy farm have been cut back to gain public approval. Nocton Dairies has halved the size of the planned herd as it submits plans to the local council.
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Farming Today - 18/12/2009
The animal disease Q Fever has hit Dutch agriculture but UK farmers are told not to panic, and Anna Hill meets a bee keeper whose colony has collapsed.
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Farming Today - 19/01/2010
The scientist leading a new trial of GM crops says the case against GM has been lost. Anna Hill also hears how a cull of infected badgers in Ireland helped control TB in cattle.
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Farming Today - 19/01/2011
The Environment Agency has objected to plans for a super-dairy in Lincolnshire saying there would be an unacceptable risk of polluting water. Anna Hill presents.
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Farming Today - 19/02/2010
Caz Graham hears about a threat to the genetic purity of Jersey's cows, and evidence that some farmers have been using a banned weedkiller on their land.
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Farming Today - 19/03/2010
The RSPCA says animal welfare should be considered by planners debating a huge dairy in Lincs. Also after 15 years and seven million trees, The National Forest is hailed a success.
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Farming Today - 19/04/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that a cull of badgers will take place in Wales this year after the Badger Trust lost a legal challenge.
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Farming Today - 19/05/2009
Anna Hill asks if there is a future in organic dairy farming, as farmers experience price cuts. One company says it is due to poor sales but another blames a glut in supply.
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Farming Today - 19/05/2010
On the eve of the Devon County Show, how do agricultural events remain relevant? And one farmer tells us how vital DEFRA money for animal disease protection is to his livelihood.
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Farming Today - 19/06/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on the exchanges in the House of Commons over the collapse of the co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain. Also, the latest on the Farming Today beehive.
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Farming Today - 19/07/2010
Rural news. New figures show a 20 per cent decline in the grey partridge in a year - even though it's red-listed. Anna Hill asks if it should still be legal to shoot the game bird.
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Farming Today - 19/08/2009
Charlotte Smith visits the town that rejected a Tesco and welcomed a Waitrose; now some people are wondering if it was the right decision.
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Farming Today - 19/08/2010
As lawyers prepare to sue a farm after an outbreak of E.coli, the man who led an inquiry into open farm safety tells Cath Mackie many of his recommendations have yet to be taken up.
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Farming Today - 19/10/2009
It's costing farmers and taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds every day as criminals fly-tip in the countryside. And rural pubs are now rearing their own animals to make ends meet.
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Farming Today - 19/10/2010
Unions claim the government cull of quangos could push farm workers into poverty. The Agricultural Wages Board was formed in 1923, but will soon be abolished.
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Farming Today - 19/11/2009
Warwick University is closing a major centre for agricultural research. Charlotte Smith asks what this will mean for the research and the industry.
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Farming Today - 19/11/2010
A plane full of pigs from the UK will soon be travelling to China. It's the first trade in pigs for three years and comes off the back of the Prime Ministers recent visit.
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Farming Today - 20/01/2010
Anna Hill on rabbits are being milked to create drugs for stroke patients. Plus farmers fear milk sales will suffer from a government campaign promoting more low fat milk.
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Farming Today - 20/01/2011
Charlotte Smith hears the case for insects as a staple food in the future. Research shows one in five horses is overweight. Plus how supermarkets trace food during safety alerts.
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Farming Today - 20/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Charlotte hears how daffodils grown for a dementia drug could be the salvation of Welsh hill farmers.
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Farming Today - 20/04/2010
Anna Hill hears food imports are already being affected as planes remain grounded. But as fruit salads fail to reach UK shelves, it's jobs in Africa which are being cut.
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Farming Today - 20/05/2009
Anna Hill hears predictions that the government's healthy-eating message could lead to a significant growth in the use of polytunnels.
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Farming Today - 20/05/2010
Charlotte Smith hears from a British MEP who has won support to slash the red tape farmers face from Europe, and why sheep are having brain scans.
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Farming Today - 20/07/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on how the National Farmers Union is revising its advice to farmers on how and when bird scarers should be used.
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Farming Today - 20/07/2010
Shooting is increasing in popularity according to the British Association of Shooting and Conservation. But Anna Hill hears how some game shoots are having to cut costs.
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Farming Today - 20/08/2009
Charlotte Smith find out if the countryside is being overlooked, as only six of the 57 authorities to benefit from three million pounds to help recession-hit areas are rural ones.
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Farming Today - 20/08/2010
The new rules to stop Scottish 'slipper' farmers claiming public money for doing nothing. And, the restaurants which had no evidence to back up the claim they served Welsh lamb.
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Farming Today - 20/09/2010
Hundreds of farmers are set to lose land for the planned high speed rail link between Birmingham and London. Caz Graham hears why they feel the compensation is not enough.
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Farming Today - 20/10/2009
Struggling dairy farmers are to get a 280 million euro handout, but an industry analyst tells Anna Hill that is still not enough to save UK dairy farms.
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Farming Today - 20/10/2010
Farmers anticipate paying more for getting less as details of DEFRA's budget cuts are announced today but they say they shouldn't have to pay for poorly run schemes.
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Farming Today - 20/11/2009
An EU ban on battery hens could mean massive imports of eggs from battery hens outside of Europe, and Defra figures show that farm incomes are set to rise by 25 per cent.
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Farming Today - 20/12/2010
The struggle to get sprouts across Europe in the snow and onto our Christmas dinner plate; a vegetable importer tells us how his business has been affected by the severe weather.
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Farming Today - 21/01/2010
The police are being given guidelines on how to spot people shooting legally, amid concerns that many don't understand 'countryside ways'. Charlotte Smith reports.
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Farming Today - 21/01/2011
Pig producers say they're losing 20 pounds on every pig. Charlotte Smith asks why and what will happen if the consumer doesn't pay more for pork.
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Farming Today - 21/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. An investigation into whether ten million pounds to be spent on researching insect pollinators - including bees - will do any good.
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Farming Today - 21/04/2010
The freight industry has warned that it will take two weeks after flights resume before fruit and veg imports return to normal. And, how supermarkets are selling more UK apples.
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Farming Today - 21/05/2009
Charlotte Smith asks the shadow environment secretary, Nick Herbert, why he thinks badgers should pay the price for the spread of TB in cattle.
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Farming Today - 21/05/2010
A cull of badgers is announced in England to reduce the spread of TB in cattle. Charlotte Smith hears reaction to the news and whether there is scientific backing for the cull.
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Farming Today - 21/06/2010
Tenants on council farms in Somerset could be forced to leave as the authority looks to save money. Charlotte Smith asks if more deficit-hit councils will go the same way.
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Farming Today - 21/07/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. She hears why Britian should not aim to be self-sufficient in food.
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Farming Today - 21/07/2010
According to the agricultural minister Jim Paice, The Rural Payments Agency is not fit for purpose. He tells Farming Today that he intends to fix it. Presented by Anna Hill.
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Farming Today - 21/08/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. How food lovers have helped a farmer from Devon who lost a major contract for his blueberries.
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Farming Today - 21/09/2009
The English coastline could soon be open to all; Charlotte Smith hears from coastal landowners who fear the worst for their business.
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Farming Today - 21/09/2010
Anna Hill hears all New Zealand lamb and beef is halal but isn't labelled as such. Farming Today hears from campaigners who want the law changed and visits a halal abattoir.
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Farming Today - 21/10/2009
Leading British scientists from the Royal Society say GM food is crucial if we are to feed the world's growing population. Plus, Anna Hill visits a pub to barter for beer.
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Farming Today - 21/10/2010
The budget for DEFRA has been cut by almost a third in the goverment's spending review. The Secretary of State for the Environment, Caroline Spelman explains these cuts.
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Farming Today - 21/11/2009
Rural crafts such as hedge laying and dry-stone walling have been on the decline. Anna Hill hears how more young people are now breathing new life into these dying traditions.
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Farming Today - 21/12/2009
The government stars a campaign warning people about buying Micro-pigs as presents. Charlotte Smith hears from a micro-pig breeder, and hears welfare concerns from the RSPCA.
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Farming Today - 22/01/2010
The Scottish Government is spending 300,000 pounds to bring the parts of animals we usually throw away back onto our plates.
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Farming Today - 22/02/2010
Cath Mackie hears how trials to grow GM potatoes could be starting in a field in East Anglia within three months.
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Farming Today - 22/03/2010
With spring approaching, Farming Today looks for signs of new life in the countryside and Charlotte Smith discovers that the native UK daffodil is in decline.
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Farming Today - 22/04/2009
Anna Hill learns how damage to crops and trees caused by deer has become a serious problem, and finds out how one estate is managing deer numbers.
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Farming Today - 22/04/2010
Food importers are counting the cost and clearing the backlog after the Icelandic volcano. As planes take to the air once more Farming Today asks if the UK could be self sufficient.
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Farming Today - 22/05/2009
Charlotte Smith reports that many British farmers are continuing to routinely clip the teeth of piglets, despite an EU ban on welfare grounds.
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Farming Today - 22/06/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on how the amount of milk produced in the UK last year was the lowest since the 1970s.
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Farming Today - 22/06/2010
Anna Hill hears how science may save the honey bee population from decline. And as the chancellor prepares his emergency budget, there are fears the countryside will be hit hard.
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Farming Today - 22/07/2009
As one of Britain's largest vegetable growers goes into administration, there are calls for retailers to pay farmers more for home-grown fruit and veg. Anna Hill reports.
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Farming Today - 22/07/2010
Charlotte Smith hears that cod stocks are once again endangered. Despite fishermen reducing their cod catch, government research shows numbers are still in decline.
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Farming Today - 22/09/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill, who looks at the bleak future of the organic vegetable box, which could be under threat.
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Farming Today - 22/09/2010
An agricultural show due to be held in December is to be cancelled due to a lack of funds. Anna Hill asks if more could follow suit.
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Farming Today - 22/10/2009
There are warnings that a lack of skilled workers in farming will threaten our ability to grow enough food according to Lantra, the skills council for agriculture.
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Farming Today - 22/10/2010
Rural issues. Charlotte Smith reports on the impact of the spending cuts in the British countryside, from more money for environmental schemes to less money for rural buses.
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Farming Today - 22/11/2010
Protests by farmers against retailers are to be held over the next few weeks. Farmers For Action claims supermarkets are not paying enough for produce, particularly milk.
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Farming Today - 22/12/2009
Anna Hills hears from one of the farmers seeking compensation from the Rural Payments Agency, and why he's bitterly disappointed to be receiving only 500 pounds.
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Farming Today - 22/12/2010
There are fears delays in heating oil deliveries to rural homes could lead to some people dying. Anna Hill hears calls for the industry and community to do more to help.
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Farming Today - 23/02/2010
Scotland's farmers receive 3 million pounds in aid after snow causes farm buildings to collapse. But Anna Hill hears from a farmer who has lost two buildings and won't get a penny.
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Farming Today - 23/03/2010
Anna Hill finds out about a new parliamentary report revealing why a dairy co-op collapsed last year and fruit farmers talk about the problems the late spring has caused.
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Farming Today - 23/04/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on Europe's admission that the Common Fisheries Policy is not working and is in need of fundamental reform. A new approach should be in place by 2013.
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Farming Today - 23/04/2010
Dairy farmers are concerned that two for one offers on cheese are depressing milk prices. Plus, an eggstra special vending machine.
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Farming Today - 23/06/2009
Anna Hill reports on violent scenes as thousands of farmers protest in Luxembourg. Despite UK milk production being at its lowest level since the 1970s EU butter mountains are back.
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Farming Today - 23/06/2010
With Anna Hill. DEFRA faces a 25 per cent budget cut and farmers fear that vital research and development research could be affected if funding is reduced.
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Farming Today - 23/07/2009
Hundreds of farmers supplied fruit and vegetables to MBMG, which has gone into administration. Anna Hill speaks to a farmer about the impact on him and others in rural businesses.
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Farming Today - 23/07/2010
The government announces plans to give local people the right to get together and build houses even in areas where local councils have refused planning permission.
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Farming Today - 23/08/2010
Cath Mackie hears that the RSPB will picket chancellor George Osborne's constituency in protest at planned government cuts. It fears that the environment will suffer.
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Farming Today - 23/09/2009
How a town is growing its own food; how people can become affected by E.coli; and the profitability of wheat. Presented by Anna Hill.
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Farming Today - 23/09/2010
UK food exports are at their highest ever level as they approach the 10 billion pound mark, and antibiotic use in farming could be creating superbugs.
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Farming Today - 23/10/2009
The Farming Today bees produce their most valuable crop of the year, and Charlotte Smith meets publicans who bought a farm in Surrey to grow the food for their four London pubs.
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Farming Today - 23/10/2010
Charlotte Smith asks if people in the countryside will be harder hit by the Government's spending cuts than those in urban areas. She finds out how one village plans to cope.
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Farming Today - 23/11/2009
The first commercially available 100 per cent British loaf will be sold in January. Anna Hill finds out why, for 160 years, completely home-produced wheat has not been used.
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Farming Today - 23/11/2010
Farming Today finds out why it costs more to live in the countryside than the city, and meets a parsnip farmer gearing up for his busiest time of year.
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Farming Today - 23/12/2009
Kate Williams hears why Scottish fishermen are hoping their conservation credits will earn them brownie points with Brussels and how a trial scheme in Devon is netting profits.
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Farming Today - 24/01/2011
A government report on how farmers will feed the world in 2050 is out today. Charlotte Smith discusses if a pesticide should be withdrawn because of its possible effect on bees.
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Farming Today - 24/02/2010
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. The head of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith, says GM technology should be considered to feed the planet's growing population.
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Farming Today - 24/03/2010
Anna Hill hears the effects of spring's late arrival on farms, and how an alien plant which can grow more than 20cm a day is causing problems on rivers.
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Farming Today - 24/04/2009
Charlotte Smith hears how the cow's genome has finally been mapped and what it means for farmers and consumers.
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Farming Today - 24/05/2010
Bee keepers say winter losses are still too high despite new figures that show a small upturn in colony survival rates.
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Farming Today - 24/06/2010
Charlotte Smith hears the emergency budget will hit rural areas hardest. And, as the hot weather continues, potato farmers are irrigating through the night to get the crop ready.
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Farming Today - 24/07/2009
With Anna Hill. Pig farmers with swine flu are being advised to keep away from their animals. It is part of government contingency plans to deal with the outbreak of the infection.
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Farming Today - 24/08/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on why birds of prey are thriving and why 20 per cent of the UK's bees died in the winter of 2008.
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Farming Today - 24/08/2010
Anna Hill with warnings that illegal cockles may have entered the food chain. The shellfish may contain e-coli. Also, after a drought, farmers battle the rain to get the harvest in.
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Farming Today - 24/09/2009
British farmers are likely to receive a 13 per cent increase in their subsidies. The weak pound means that farmers will receive more when they convert the payments into sterling.
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Farming Today - 24/09/2010
Developments could be built in rural areas without planning permission, even if a quarter of villagers don't want them. Caz Graham talks to housing minister Grant Shapps.
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Farming Today - 24/11/2009
Anna Hill hears how farmers in Cumbria saw livestock washed away in the floods, with hundreds of animals missing or dead.
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Farming Today - 24/11/2010
Small rural schools could face closure as local authorities cut back on spending. Farming Today finds out what impact this could have on village communities.
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Farming Today - 24/12/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdsdtock tastes traditional English wine in Herefordshire.
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Farming Today - 24/12/2009
Kate Williams hears what Christmas tree farmers do for the rest of the year, and how deer poaching is on the rise.
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Farming Today - 25/01/2010
Sheep return to the Scilly Isles. The first flock for 30 years has been brought to the island by a farmer hoping to sell the lamb locally. Also, how important is the Green Belt?
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Farming Today - 25/01/2011
UK farmers must start producing significantly more food to feed a growing population, according to a new government study. Presented by Anna Hill.
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Farming Today - 25/02/2010
Charlotte Smith hears how the European Union is to consider reintroducing rules to ban wonky vegetables and misshapen fruits.
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Farming Today - 25/03/2010
Charlotte Smith hears why it's been a bad Budget for rural cider makers. And will the Farming Today bees have survived the winter cold?
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Farming Today - 25/05/2009
Sarah Falkingham investigates why increased UK veg production means that more and more fields are covered in plastic, which usually end up in landfill.
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Farming Today - 25/05/2010
DEFRA's 162 million pounds worth of cuts mean their funding to Regional Development Agencies will be reduced. Anna Hill finds out if their rural projects will feel the brunt.
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Farming Today - 25/06/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on research which states that if all farmers in England and Wales went completely organic there would be more beef and lamb but fewer cereals, eggs and milk.
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Farming Today - 25/06/2010
The government scales back its plan to vaccinate badgers to control TB in cattle, and a lack of rain in parts of the country is causing problems for farmers.
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Farming Today - 25/08/2009
Charlotte Smith hears about the tagging project that may prove the innocence of sea eagles.
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Farming Today - 25/08/2010
Tens of thousands of trees are being felled due to Sudden Oak Death but British woodlands are also battling several other major diseases. Anna Hill asks why the threat is so great.
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Farming Today - 25/09/2009
England's hedgerows are disappearing, and farmers are being blamed. Charlotte Smith hears that 16,000 miles of hedgerows have been lost since 1999.
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Farming Today - 25/10/2010
A farmer is forced to shoot a bullock because the animal didn't have a passport. Plus warnings that a perfect storm of government cuts is faced by rural communities.
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Farming Today - 25/11/2009
British cheesemakers say the industry is being undermined by mislabelled imported cheese. And the superbug MRSA has been found in a quarter of EU pig herds. So could it come here?
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Farming Today - 25/12/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Adam Henson reveals all about the festive season's favourite nut.
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Farming Today - 25/12/2009
Turkey is still the traditionalists' favourite for the Christmas table, so Charlotte Smith discovers how to make the best of your bird.
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Farming Today - 26/01/2010
Anna Hill reports on a new drug for better-tasting pork. The need for it is apparently being driven by consumers who are turned off by bore taint.
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Farming Today - 26/01/2011
Anna Hill visits the lab where scientists are working on a new generation of GM crops which could create their own fertiliser. And, why anglers want more cormorants to be culled.
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Farming Today - 26/02/2010
Charlotte Smith hears calls for CCTV to be installed in all UK abattoirs, to help improve animal welfare.
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Farming Today - 26/03/2010
A quarter of a million new trees are currently being planted in south-east England. Charlotte Smith visits the forest to hear how the timber industry can be sustainable.
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Farming Today - 26/04/2010
Charlotte Smith hears calls from the RSPCA for cheap, fast-growing chickens to be taken off the shelves. But chicken farmers say intensively grown chickens enjoy high welfare.
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Farming Today - 26/05/2009
Charlotte Smith reports that polytunnels are now proving popular not only with farmers but also smallholders, with sales up 100 per cent.
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Farming Today - 26/05/2010
Landowners are being urged to earmark hundreds of hectares of land for new farmers or risk losing young talent abroad.
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Farming Today - 26/06/2009
Figures reveal a 40 per cent increase in North Sea cod stocks. Charlotte Smith investigates what impact this will have on the fishing industry and the price we pay for cod.
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Farming Today - 26/07/2010
The new government wants your help in shaping its new environment policy to preserve nature and manage biodiversity.
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Farming Today - 26/08/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on a row over how many chickens it is fair to keep in a square metre, and the search is on for British plums in our supermarkets.
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Farming Today - 26/08/2010
The farmer who illegally sold cloned meat says UK law should be changed. Anna Hill hears that even if his animals end up abroad, we could end up eating them without knowing it.
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Farming Today - 26/10/2007
How vaccine manufacturers are warning that unless governments put in firm orders for doses of bluetongue vaccine, they won't be able to make it in time to fight the disease.
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Farming Today - 26/10/2009
Over five million potatoes and over four million apples are thrown away every day without being used. Charlotte Smith finds out who's responsible and what the solutions are.
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Farming Today - 26/12/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock explains why there is much more to pigs than bacon and sausages.
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Farming Today - 27/01/2010
How one farmer fears he could go out of business because of persistent sheep rustlers. John Bishop says his insurance premiums are now so high, he could lose everything.
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Farming Today - 27/01/2011
A public consultation begins on the sale of England's forests. Charlotte Smith hears from a private landowner and a campaigner.
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Farming Today - 27/04/2009
Charlotte Smith launches the Farming Today beehive, with a chance for listeners to join in. Over the next 12 months the programme will be tracking its progress.
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Farming Today - 27/04/2010
Why goose farmers are already thinking about Christmas. Plus, the major retailer about to pay dairy farmers a bonus for improving the welfare of their cows.
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Farming Today - 27/05/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. Supermarkets are due to indicate whether they will sign up for a new ombudsman proposed by the Competition Commission.
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Farming Today - 27/05/2010
For the first time in years wool prices are increasing. Charlotte Smith finds out if that means farmers will finally get more than it costs to shear the sheep.
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Farming Today - 27/07/2009
Anna Hill reports on how people in rural towns and villages are pulling together to beat the recession. She visits Reepham in Norfolk to find out how people there are coping.
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Farming Today - 27/07/2010
Farmers are warned to be on their guard after being told that thieves are stealing tractors to order, and Anna Hill joins the pea harvest in Norfolk.
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Farming Today - 27/08/2009
Charlotte Smith hears how stocking more British dairy products in UK supermarkets could save the industry. Plus how farmers could do more to help the environment.
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Farming Today - 27/08/2010
With Anna Hill. Claims that thousands of jobs could be threatened if the 'Mackerel Wars' escalate, and scientists have moved a step closer to drought resistant wheat.
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Farming Today - 27/09/2010
President of the National Farmers Union, Peter Kendal, is calling for calm over leaks that more than 50 farming and environment quangos are to be axed. Presented by Caz Graham.
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Farming Today - 27/10/2009
Farmers in one of the largest pig-producing areas in the country have hired a marksman to shoot wild boar which they say could ruin their businesses. Anna Hill reports.
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Farming Today - 27/10/2010
The clocks could go back this weekend for what could be the last time and Anna Hill meets a farmer producing power from waste on his farm.
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Farming Today - 27/11/2009
Charlotte Smith asks whether sustainable agriculture, whilst being better for the environment, is going to provide enough food to feed the world.
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Farming Today - 27/12/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock samples some traditional English ale.
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Farming Today - 27/12/2010
Sarah Swadling meets David and Julie Hewitt as they cope with an unstoppable flow of eggs on a Cornish chicken farm.
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Farming Today - 28/01/2010
As pressure grows to develop greenbelt land, Charlotte Smith hears from a farmer who says he won't sell his land despite being offered millions of pounds.
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Farming Today - 28/01/2011
A court ruling could mean more polytunnels in protected landscapes. Plus we hear from the government minister who plans to sell off some of England's forests.
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Farming Today - 28/04/2009
Anna Hill hears reassurances about the implications of swine flu for food safety and British farmers. Also, the Farming Today beekeepers take delivery of their new hive.
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Farming Today - 28/04/2010
What the waggle dance is telling scientists about making the countryside better for bees. Anna Hill visits a new centre which promises to get innovations from the lab to the field.
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Farming Today - 28/05/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Moira Hickey follows a herd of cattle as they are swum to their summer grazing pastures off the Scottish coast.
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Farming Today - 28/05/2009
One in five UK bird species is now under threat, according to the RSPB. Caz Graham asks which birds are struggling and what can be done.
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Farming Today - 28/05/2010
The government spends more on controlling TB in cattle than any other animal disease, but at the moment we don't vaccinate against it. Charlotte Smith finds out why.
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Farming Today - 28/06/2010
Twenty-four years after Chernobyl, hundreds of British farmers still affected by radioactivity are demanding a rise in the compensation payments. Presented by Charlotte Smith.
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Farming Today - 28/07/2009
With many rural areas faring poorly during the recession, Anna Hill hears calls for us to take advice from the French if our village shops are to be saved.
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Farming Today - 28/07/2010
The advertising watchdog has ruled an ad about cruelty in abbatoirs made misleading claims, but Anna Hill hears that the group behind it stand by their evidence.
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Farming Today - 28/08/2009
The National Gamekeepers Organisation says that the increase in numbers of birds of prey in the UK may mean that they need to be controlled in the future. Charlotte Smith hears why.
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Farming Today - 28/09/2009
Charlotte Smith finds out why some British farmers have dumped thousands of litres of milk in protest. Also what schools should be doing to incorporate farming into the curriculum.
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Farming Today - 28/09/2010
The rise of 'mega-dairies' could create a backlash market for 'free range' milk according to one farming expert, and a shortage of mangolds could put a village event at risk.
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Farming Today - 28/10/2009
Dog attacks cost sheep farmers one million pounds a year, and our right to roam is being blamed. Anna Hill hears from a farmer whose flock was destroyed by a Rottweiler.
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Farming Today - 28/10/2010
Landowners are being encouraged to amalgamate smaller tenant farms to be more profitable. Caz Graham asks if that will push more would-be farmers off the first rung of the ladder.
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Farming Today - 28/12/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock finds out why some Welsh farmers are giving up lamb in favour of mutton.
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Farming Today - 28/12/2009
Farming Today takes an in-depth look at pig production and follows one sow on a Yorkshire farm through her pregnancy.
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Farming Today - 28/12/2010
Extreme winter weather threatens the crop at an organic vegetable farm in Warrington. Caz Graham learns how they keep their box scheme running when veg is frozen into the ground.
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Farming Today - 29/01/2010
The Farming Today pig has become a proud mother of 12 piglets, and Charlotte Smith visits green belt land in Oxford to look at future uses that would benefit the local community.
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Farming Today - 29/03/2010
Charlotte Smith finds why a skills shortage is good news for those studying agriculture. And the latest progress on the Farming Today piglets.
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Farming Today - 29/04/2009
Anna Hill reports on the team of vets sent to Mexico by the United Nations to find out if swine flu has really come from pigs.
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Farming Today - 29/04/2010
Willow farmers fear for their future as the English cricket bat industry falters. Charlotte Smith hears that new EU pesticide laws are at the root of the problem.
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Farming Today - 29/05/2007
News and issues in rural Britain. Mark Holdstock reports from the Northumberland Show.
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Farming Today - 29/05/2009
Caz Graham talks to the author of a report suggesting that the beef industry is in serious decline and investigates whether beef farmers are seeing the beginning of the end.
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Farming Today - 29/06/2009
There are concerns from farmers that the police are not giving them the resources needed to fight rural crime. Charlotte Smith asks what more can be done to put a stop to thefts.
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Farming Today - 29/06/2010
Anna Hill hears that 90 per cent of the UKs peat bogs are dying. And with 180,000 people keeping chickens in small numbers, Anna hears that no training is needed to keep the birds.
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Farming Today - 29/07/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill, who hears that disease from imported pigs could threaten the national herd.
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Farming Today - 29/07/2010
The happiness of pigs is being measured by scientists in the UK. Now they want to see how content they are with different farming techniques.
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Farming Today - 29/09/2009
The English apple season starts, but we are still importing 65 per cent of our apples. Anna Hill hears calls for imports to be removed from supermarket shelves.
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Farming Today - 29/09/2010
One of the most detailed surveys ever is being carried out by scientists to chart the effects of farming and weather changes on species in the New Forest over the next ten years.
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Farming Today - 29/10/2007
Mark Holdstock learns about the seven countries in the EU that are now growing just over a quarter of a million acres of genetically modified maize.
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Farming Today - 29/10/2009
Anna Hill reports that the price of food could quadruple in the next 20 years according to one analyst and talks to a carrot farmer about how he cuts down on the waste he produces.
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Farming Today - 29/10/2010
The number of eels in British rivers has declined by 95 per cent in the last 30 years and now the Environment Agency are introducing measures to reverse this decline.
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Farming Today - 29/11/2010
Farmers say they are running out of non-GM animal feed. And tenant farmers fear too many farms are being sold off by cash-strapped councils.
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Farming Today - 29/12/2009
Steve Peacock on the ex-army medics who are teaching people in rural communities to use battlefield first aid to survive the long wait for an ambulance to arrive.
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Farming Today - 29/12/2010
With Anna Hill. Featuring Norfolk farmer Jim Fletcher, who will spend Christmas looking after 4,000 sheep, which are spread over a 20 mile radius in the Fens.
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Farming Today - 30/03/2010
Anna Hill hears how growing sweeter peas could mean a greener countryside. Plus, why a major supermarket's decided to source all its own brand frozen peas from the UK.
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Farming Today - 30/04/2009
Charlotte Smith explores threats to the survival of bees. One controversial theory is that bees are being weakened by exposure to a type of pesticides.
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Farming Today - 30/04/2010
Farmers are facing further subsidy chaos and confusion and blame the Rural Payments Agency for sending out inaccurate maps of their land.
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Farming Today - 30/06/2009
Anna Hill reports on last-ditch attempts to save farmers caught up in the collapse of a dairy cooperative. Plus we talk to the Milk Link, the company offering farmers a new deal.
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Farming Today - 30/06/2010
The government has abolished the Commission for Rural Communities and Farming Today hears that this could be just the first of several rural quangos to face the chop.
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Farming Today - 30/07/2009
Charlotte Smith reports on the Farming Today bees' journey to the heather. They will spend a month in a Derbyshire hive with the aim of producing a good crop of heather honey.
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Farming Today - 30/07/2010
Anna Hill finds out about a new research strategy to tackle the UK's commonest cause of food poisoning.
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Farming Today - 30/08/2010
Caz Graham visits a goat farm at the foot of Scafell Pike in the Lake District and discovers the challenges in raising goats in the rocky Lake District terrain.
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Farming Today - 30/09/2009
Anna Hill reports on the controversial reintroduction of sea eagles to Suffolk, and investigates government plans to reintroduce beavers, lynx, elk and wild boar to the countryside.
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Farming Today - 30/09/2010
Thames Water have developed a way to turn sewage waste into a farm fertiliser and Charlotte Smith visits 'The People's Supermarket', an independent food store in London.
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Farming Today - 30/10/2009
Charlotte Smith asks Environment Secretary Hilary Benn what happened to the personal details of farmers after the Rural Payments Agency lost them.
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Farming Today - 30/11/2009
Charlotte Smith on how 3,000 unregulated overflow pipes are pumping sewage into rivers. Also, the discovery that makes it possible to prove the country of origin of the food we eat.
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Farming Today - 30/11/2010
Anna Hill hears suggestions that more should be done to help poor farmers leave the industry. The Commission for Rural Communities says a quarter of farmers are living in poverty.
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Farming Today - 30/12/2009
Charlotte Smith follows a year in the life of four brothers who are new to farming and discovers if they have made farming pay.
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Farming Today - 30/12/2010
Winter in the farm: Willow harvesting on the Somerset Levels. Sarah Swadling visits farmer Richard Roberts, and basket maker, Darrell Hill, as they gather this year's crop.
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Farming Today - 31/03/2010
Anna Hill hears criticism of an organic farm conservation scheme by the public spending watchdog.
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Farming Today - 31/05/2010
Caz Graham meets farmers in Cumbria, still struggling six months after record floods. As Cockermouth town slowly recovers, fields still erode and tons of gravel lies on farmland.
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Farming Today - 31/07/2009
The British summer may have failed to materialise so far, but parts of the tourism industry in market towns and villages are reporting a 20 per cent increase in trade.
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Farming Today - 31/08/2009
Anne-Marie Bullock visits the Cain Valley in Montgomeryshire to see how a farmer has improved the water quality of the River Cain and how it has improved life on his farm.
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Farming Today - 31/08/2010
Smuggling illegal food into the lucrative European market is a growing problem. Anna Hill hears how organised gangs are smuggling counterfeit food to UK shores.
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Farming Today - 31/12/2009
New smallholders Geoff and Sue Nicholls reflect on their first farming year. From a humble beginning with a handful of cattle, Farming Today discovers how the year has gone.
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Farming Today - 31/12/2010
Looking after wildlife on a winter farm. Charlotte Smith revisits farmer Richard Haynes who has gone the extra mile to encourage birds and bugs onto his Buckinghamshire farm.
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Farming Today - Cuts, Culls and Coalitions
Charlotte Smith examines the government's rural budget and its controversial plan to cull badgers in England to try and halt TB in cattle.
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News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith, with a debate on the future of the Royal Show.
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Bluetongue virus has already reached Britain. Anna Hill asks why many farmers still aren't vaccinating their animals. How protected are we from infected imports and new serotypes?
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Charlotte Smith asks if the black and white Holstein breed is producing more milk than its body is able to cope with. Are concerns about lameness and short life spans justified?
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Charlotte Smith visits a grain storage facility in Staffordshire to find out how much pest damage and control costs farmers, from deer down to weevils.
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Charlotte Smith pays her first visit to the Farming Today beehive in Warwickshire and finds out the chances of the bees surviving for a year.
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News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. The farmers who produce the chicken on our plates say the future of their industry is in jeopardy.
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Charlotte Smith goes to a farm with woolless sheep to examine the future of wool production in Britain, now that it often costs more to shear the sheep than the fleece is worth.
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Charlotte Smith asks who should pay to prevent another foot and mouth outbreak. The government wants livestock farmers to pay half but it is not asking smallholders.
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What does the future hold for growing our food? Caz Graham visits Warwick University to find out.
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Charlotte Smith considers the future of the dairy industry after one of the country's largest milk co-operatives went into receivership.
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Charlotte Smith visits a Gloucestershire farm which is selling up its dairy operation after 60 years in business. She sees if consumers and retailers are paying enough for milk.
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The United Nations wants more fish farms to ease the problems of overfishing. Charlotte Smith explores whether concerns over welfare and pollution make farming fish unsustainable.
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After the death of a woman who was trampled by cows, Charlotte Smith hears from farmers, walkers and a cattle behaviourist about the dangers of a stroll in the countryside.
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As preparations get underway for the last ever Royal Show, Charlotte Smith visits Stoneleigh in Warwickshire to examine the future for agricultural shows across the UK.
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Charlotte Smith rounds up the week's coverage of the last ever Royal Show. Traders, champions and show stalwarts give their views on 2009 and look back at Shows past.
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The UK should not attempt to be self-sufficient in food, according to a new parliamentary report. It says doing so would make our own food supplies less secure. Anna Hill reports.
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Thirteen rural pubs are closing each week and hundreds of village shops shut each year. Charlotte Smith hears how rural areas are being hit by and fighting back against recession.
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Anna Hill investigates the human cost of bovine TB for farming families trapped within the cycle of the disease.
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A range of people take to the Farming Today soapbox to tell us how we should secure food supplies over the next 20 years.
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We eat more than 800 million ready meals in the UK each year. Charlotte Smith finds out what's in them and how much of the contents are from UK farms.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Birds of Prey are on the rise, and their numbers are now back to 19th century levels. Charlotte Smith talks to conservationists, gamekeepers and falconers.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Farmers have been battling to control our rivers for centuries. They raid them for irrigation and build dykes to hold them back - but at what cost? Anne-Marie Bullock investigates.
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Our countryside is getting noisier. Charlotte Smith looks at whether the countryside is getting a rough deal, or whether it is just playing its part in modern life.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
As another farm closes following fears of an e.coli outbreak, Charlotte Smith investigates what this will mean for the future of children's farms in the UK.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith investigates why more people are buying food locally. Over the last three years, the number of us buying 'local' food has more than doubled.
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There are growing calls for schoolchildren to learn about farming and food production as a core element of the national curriculum. Currently, farm visits are optional.
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Charlotte Smith hears from developers, farmers, researchers and locals to see how NIMBYs both protect the countryside and hinder its development.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith investigates the future of the organic sector as it struggles against the backdrop of falling sales.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith finds out how food and farming is helping many local pubs stay afloat, despite 52 pubs closing every week, and 20 per cent of those are in the countryside.
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With 6.7 million tonnes of food thrown away each year, Charlotte Smith visits a village where residents are embracing food waste recycling.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Fewer breeds are being farmed to feed our desire for consistent cuts of meat. Charlotte Smith finds out how these breeds have come to dominate on the supermarket shelves.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
To meet renewable energy targets by 2020, 5,000 onshore wind turbines will have to be built. Charlotte Smith finds out how farmers and landowners could benefit.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith finds UK cheese made in Latvia and Lincolnshire sausages with German meat. She asks why 'buying British' is still such a confusing business for shoppers.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
From robotic milking machines to meat grown in a petri-dish, the programme looks at the innovations and advances in agricultural technology that will help feed future generations.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith visits the Defra Christmas fair to find out about protected foods.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Research predicts that food sales will be up on last year despite the recession. Charlotte Smith visits Melton Mowbray's farmers market to find out if this is true.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith reports on the Farming Today beehive's progress in 2009. From disease control to honey competitions, it's been an eventful time.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
A year in the life of four groups of people taking the plunge into farming. Economics, animal disease and the weather have all been obstacles.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
The programme visits a Midlands farm to find out how the icy weather is affecting farmers across the UK and how they are preparing for another week of freezing temperatures.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Changes in weather patterns are affecting the future of farming. Charlotte Smith visits one farmer who is fighting to stop his land disappearing underwater.
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A farmer's fight to stop TB infecting her prize herd of cattle. She tells Charlotte Smith why she thinks a badger cull planned in Wales is the right thing to do.
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Charlotte Smith reports on threats to the green belt, as the government attempts to meet its target of building three million new homes by 2020.
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Charlotte Smith investigates whether the law which gave people in England and Wales more access to the countryside should be reviewed.
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All this week the future of the sheep industry has been in the spotlight, with the rising cost of technology, the decreasing price of wool and imports, it faces an uncertain future.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
From solar panels to wind turbines to power from cow muck and woodchips, Cath Mackie investigates the technologies which farms can use to provide power for the National Grid.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
With 1.4 billion pounds spent on ethnic food last year in the UK, Charlotte Smith hears how Surinder Pal hopes to cash in on the growing market through his farm in Shropshire.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
UK farmers last year exported 14 billion pounds worth of food. The UK is now the world's 9th largest agricultural exporter. Charlotte Smith meets farmers to find out where it goes.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
With plans for a dairy farm with 8,000 cows, Charlotte Smith asks whether intensive farming is having an impact on animal welfare.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
There is greater demand to plant new trees, and woods are increasingly used for recreation. Charlotte Smith investigates the pressures on forests.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Has Spring finally, truly sprung now? Charlotte Smith investigates on an asparagus farm in the Vale of Evesham.
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We hear from a group of people who all want a job in agriculture. Farming Today will follow their progress over 12 months.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
The UK flower industry is worth 2.2 billion pounds, but only 10 per cent of what is sold is home grown. Charlotte Smith visits a British rose farmer to find out how they do it.
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With rural tourism now worth 15 billion pounds a year and supporting around 400,000 jobs, farmers could potentially make more money from tourism than from farming.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Sixty per cent of the UK's food is imported from Europe and beyond. With global freight suffering disruption, we discover why the UK imports food that can be grown here.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith looks back on the past 12 months in the Farming Today beehive.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith meets farmers rushing to get crops into the ground now the weather is warming up and harvest the crops that are ready for the market.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Nearly 500 plants and animals have become extinct in England. Charlotte Smith is at a Worcestershire farm to investigate the balance between growing food and supporting wildlife.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
As hill farmers struggle, Charlotte Smith considers the future for the uplands, asking whether upland farmers should be paid to manage the countryside, rather than to farm.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
The UK drinks market is worth billions of pounds but very little of that product comes from here. Charlotte Smith asks if British farmers are missing out on a lucrative industry.
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The number of people keeping animals in their backyard is growing. Farming Today finds out why more and more people are opting for a slice of the 'good life'.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
For the past six months, Farming Today has been following eleven pigs being reared indoors. Charlotte Smith visits an outdoor pig farm in Staffordshire to tell the story.
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Charlotte Smith and the Farming Today team experience the life of a migrant worker, living in a caravan and picking and packing fruit.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith visits the Game Fair in Warwickshire, to see how the game and shooting industries are coping with the economic downturn.
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Reporting on the busiest time in the farming calendar as the harvest begins and all over the country crops are ripening and the combines are firing up. Anna Hill presents.
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As cloned meat enters the UK food chain, Caz Graham looks at cloning in UK agriculture, and hears that the world must embrace the technology or mass starvation may result.
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How droughts and wild fires in Russia and Ukraine will affect the price of bread in the UK. Caz Graham follows the path of flour from field to loaf.
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184,000 people visited a farm on Open Farm Sunday in June. A year on from the e-coli outbreak at Godstone Farm in Surrey, Cath Mackie asks if farms are safe to visit.
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Farming Today meets the farmers toiling on the land where fields meet the sea and discovers the challenges they face from the elements.
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When banned foods enter the UK they can bring diseases like Foot and Mouth. Caz Graham hears how items are traced and asks if the penalties are harsh enough.
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The number of dairy farmers in England and Wales as halved in the last ten years. Charlotte Smith visits a Cheshire farm to find out if there is still money to be made out of milk.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
£2 billion is spent each year on public sector food. Caz Graham visits Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham to investigate how much of that money goes to British farmers.
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More than 50 farming and environment bodies could be axed by the government according to a leak and the lobbying to save them has already started.
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UK growers supply only around a third of the apples in our shops with the rest imported. Charlotte Smith asks if more apples, pears, plums and cherries could be grown here.
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Charlotte Smith visits a farm with one million laying hens, as battery cages are phased out across Europe. UK egg farmers fear they may now lose out to cheap imports.
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Charlotte Smith visits a Leicestershire research centre to find out why one in five rivers in England and Wales do not meet European quality standards.
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Caz Graham visits a Derbyshire farm to find out how the UK will meet its target of producing 15 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020. The current figure is 3 per cent.
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News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
As food prices continue to rise, supermarkets say they are sheltering shoppers from a volatile global market. Charlotte Smith finds out whether its farmers who are cashing in.
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Charlotte Smith looks at the conditions pigs, broiler chickens and dairy cattle face under standard welfare practice and asks if British farmers should do more.
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With 27 days until Christmas, Charlotte Smith sees how farmers are preparing festive food. From turkeys to geese, nuts to parsnips, it's the busiest time of year for many farmers.
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Charlotte Smith visits a Leicestershire farm lambing in snow and hears how farmers throughout the UK are coping with feet of snow and freezing conditions.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week
Charlotte Smith raises a glass to the British drinks industry. UK farmers are now producing award-winning vodka and sparkling wine alongside the more traditional whiskey and beer.
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Caz Graham looks at winter on farms around the country. While most people are tucked up in bed, spare a thought for the farmers out in the cold, the dark, the wet and the snow.
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Farmers are being urged towards 'sustainable intensification' to help feed the growing population with restricted resources. Sarah Swadling asks how that can be done.
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Applications to agricultural college are on the rise. Caz Graham meets students who have entered an industry which must recruit new entrants to safeguard food security.
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Charlotte Smith discovers how ingredients can be traced back to their source when there is a possibility of food contamination.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week - Crop Science
Farming Today meets the scientists at the cutting edge of farming research as they strive to feed the growing world population.
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Farming Today - Farming Today This Week - Migrant Workers
British farms and packhouses rely on thousands of overseas workers. Charlotte Smith hears how the current sources of labour may not be available in the future.
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Farming Today - Water Consumption During Summer
Over the next 12 weeks, agriculture will be a major consumer of water in the UK. Caz Graham visits a Shropshire potato farm to find out about water use on farms this summer.
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