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.
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.
Police are fighting back against rural thieves by chemically 'tagging' tractor fuel. Anna Hill hears how it's part of plans to reduce the £42million pound worth of rural thefts.
When banned foods enter the UK they can bring diseases like Foot and Mouth. Caz Graham hears how illegal items are traced and asks if the penalties are harsh enough.
With Caz Graham. Mince is now the nation's favourite cut of beef, but farmers say heavy discounts and reduced sales of more expensive cuts are hitting profits. We hear from one farmer who is quitting beef production after a family involvement of more than a hundred years. Farming Today also visits one...
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.
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.
Presented by Anna Hill. Claims thousands of jobs could be threatened if the 'Mackerel Wars' escalate. Scientists have moved a step closer to developing wheat capable of resisting climate change, by mapping the crop's genetic makeup. And, we meet a farmer who says he'd 'be like a fish out of water' if...
Cath Mackie hears about the Scottish Government's plans to crackdown on 'slipper' farmers who are claiming thirty million pounds of public money a year for doing nothing. Also, the Trading Standards investigation which found half the restaurants questioned in North Wales didn't have any evidence that...
Farming Today reports on how droughts and wild fires in Russia and the Ukraine will affect the price of bread in the UK. Caz Graham follows the path of flour from field to loaf.
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. And, the innovation which ensures cows need never have itchy backs
Caz Graham hears how more meat linked to a cloned cow has been on sale. And after cod and tuna wars now there could be mackerel wars - the UK government is in dispute with Iceland and and the Faroe Islands over fish quotas.
Caz Graham learns about proposals from Members of the European Parliament which could stop some UK milk being labelled 'fresh'. Scientists in Scotland are hoping to tackle the tick with new multi million pound research. And, with around ninety per cent of barbecue charcoal imported, the case for burning...
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.
Farming: 06 Aug 10 Milk producers sign cloning declaration
Farmers supplying milk to Dairy Crest have been ordered to sign an official declaration to confirm they are not supplying milk from cloned cows or their offspring. And now there are calls for some major work to clarify the regulation of produce derived from animals linked to cloning.
The Government gives the go ahead for a supermarket watchdog to police the relationship between suppliers and supermarkets. Farming Mimister Jim Paice tells Caz Graham how the Groceries Code Adjudicator will work. A huge mussel farm is planned for Lyme Bay and not everyone is happy. Moira Hickey meets...
After an outcry over claims milk from the offspring of a cloned cow illegally entered the food chain, scientists say there are long-term benefits from cloning.
Farming Today reports 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 joins James Price on his farm at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as he's harvesting his fields of wheat, barley and oil seed rape, hoping...
Anna Hill finds out about a new research strategy to tackle the UK's commonest cause of food poisoning - Campylobacter. Farming Today also discovers what life is like for a combine harvester contractor, and revisits a Scottish farmer whose sheep were stranded in the winter snow.
Anna Hill talks to the advertising watchdog, the ASA, following their ruling that an ad aboutcruelty in abbatoirs made misleading claims. And, she hears that the group behind it stand by their evidence.
Farmers are warned to be on their guard after being told that thieves are stealing tractors to order. Valuable machinery is being targeted and is often turning up overseas. Sarah Falkingham catches up with Gareth Barlow as he continues his journey to becoming a farmer, and Anna Hill joins the pea harvest...
The new governement wants your help in shaping its new environment policy to preserve nature and manage biodiversity. Farming Today reports on a deadly virus that is wiping out Pacific Oysters in Whitstable, off the north Kent Coast, and we take a snapshot of what's currently being harvested across...
The Rural Payments Agency is not fit for purpose according to the agriculture minister. The minister Jim Paice tells Farming Today that he intends to fix it. Anna Hill visits a farm in Suffolk where the RSPB have embarked on a project to protect turtle doves and Sarah Swadling discovers how partridges...
The Farming Today Team are living and working as fruit pickers on a farm in Herefordshire. Charlotte Smith learns how hard it is and where the fruit goes.
