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The Farmers Weekly Podcast, 100 episodes.

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1

Fertiliser carbon tax, 25 years of responsible spraying, & Britain’s first olive harvest

2

Autumn Budget Special: Hit or miss for farming?

3

Farm tax breaks, potato harvest, organics, and Clarkson at Tory conference

4

Red diesel prices, Can AI replace your agronomist? & Farmers Weekly Live

5

SFI26: Sifting through the wreckage of the Sustainable Farming Incentive

6

Emergency Episode: SFI26 funding gone in under six hours – what now?

7

SFI scramble, sugar beet arbitration, maize quality, & Daniel Zeichner on life inside Defra

8

Abi Kay's Big Questions: Former minister Daniel Zeichner lifts the lid on life inside Defra.

9

Farm rent cuts, secret rural crime workshops, pig sector crisis, & Derek vs Derek

10

River Wye pollution progress, gene-edited soya, falling livestock numbers & Great British Harvest Festival

11

Autumn drilling gamble, fertiliser warning, sugar beet drought, Brazilian beef imports, and firearms licensing

12

Drought crisis loans, does regen farming stack up?, bluetongue vaccination, & China food security

13

£65m drought aid, autumn drilling, livestock forage, firefighting farmers & fundraising for mental health

14

Drought crisis, grain marketing, farm welfare grants, & 150 years of Aberdeen Angus cattle

15

Bluetongue surge, harvest yields explained, and wildlife-friendly farming

16

Angela Eagle returns to Defra, Welsh farm funding, sugar beet factory closure, David Barton tribute, & combine harvester fires

17

What to expect from Andy Burnham's government, no murder charge over farm shooting, & UK chickpea challenge

18

Heatwave harvest grain-washing alert, Farming Roadmap 'waffle', Scottish agriculture, & Erling Haaland backs British farmers

19

Groundswell 2026: Private money for green farming, Wildfarmed, Kemi Badenoch & 10 years of regenerative agriculture

20

Flaming June, Farming Roadmap, bovine TB, farm machinery 10 years post- Brexit, and green award for farm estate

21

Verdict on SFI budget, fertiliser warning, Red Tractor responds, and Only Farmers

22

Cereals 2026 at Clarkson's Farm: Does it still pay to grow combinable crops?

23

Relaunched SFI - what it means for you, High Court and abattoirs, Red Tractor, and Open Farm Sunday

24

Carbon cash delays, farm assurance frustration, Minette Batters book, & the rise of regenerative supply chains

25

Hare-coursing clampdown, tariffs cut on food imports, Beef Expo, & fertiliser from thin air

26

Fuel and fertiliser fears deepen, Dyson’s farm future, pig markets, & a royal farming honour

27

Glyphosate ban - would it work? Licences for dairy and livestock farmers, beef price wobble and starter farm tenancy

28

Fertiliser - best time to buy, regenerative farm tenancies, AI bird counts, & TikTok cow-huggers

29

Turmoil over autumn cropping – Clarkson hits out, Starmer tackled on red diesel, Cereals preview & farm safety

30

Legal challenge over unauthorised Traveller sites, setting the record straight on grain prices, and farmer runs marathon for dad and Sepsis Trust

31

Help on new inheritance tax rules, electricity standing charges, farm management software, & dog attacks on sheep

32

MPs launch farm profit campaign, Ensus bioethanol plant, spring lamb boom, and on-farm indoor ski slope

33

Red diesel prices reach new highs, Land Use Framework, upland farmers shut out of schemes, and farmer fends off industry challenges

34

Latest farm income figures, Natural England admits environmental payments aren’t delivering, and Nigel Farage under fire over chlorinated chicken

35

Iran War: Impact on UK fertiliser, fuel & food security

36

Revamped SFI payment rates, fly-tipping, NFU elections, & farm minister Angela Eagle

37

Big drop in farmland sales, £100m landscape recovery scheme, Red Tractor, winter bean warning, & storing winter rainfall

38

How to farm profitably without subsidies, how to sell wheat for £660/tonne, harness the marketing power of social media, & farmer walks 150 miles to London for charity

39

Winter floods, drainage and soil health, Big Farmland Bird Count, closer UK-EU links and farming, & Mind Your Head week

40

Judge orders review of inheritance tax, beef & dairy licence to farm, cereal yields & YEN future

41

Farmers Weekly Question Time: AICC Agronomy Conference 2026

42

Why farming needs better leaders, illegal meat imports, lamb welfare and tail-docking, & Society of Agriculture

43

Doubts over net zero for farming, arable profits and independent agronomy, NFU leadership challenge, farmland market, and Women in Agriculture

44

Farmers Weekly Question Time: Oxford Farming Conference 2026

45

Should we continue campaign against inheritance tax? Can the government win back farmers' trust? First details on relaunched Sustainable Farming Incentive, & New Year Honours for farming

46

Inheritance tax special - what Christmas climbdown means for your farm business

47

Farming Profitability Review: will it work? Interview with Minette Batters; How to forge your farming future - Oxford Farming Conference preview; farmers wanted to grow hazelnuts

48

Nightmare before Christmas: Battle to save biodiversity net gain, cross-resistance fungicide warning, UK-France lamb war, & Red Tractor reviews standards

49

Should we be more upbeat about farming? New Landscape Recovery scheme, risk v reward – latest wheat varieties, rebel Labour MP suspended over IHT, and African swine fever hits Spanish pig exports

50

Police face questions over banned London tractor protest, inheritance tax & what Budget means for your farm business, and National Fruit Show celebration

51

Update on Sustainable Farming Incentive, new campaign against inheritance tax, food inflation, CLA conference, and Tesco launches environmental baselining

52

Torturous wait for Defra's vision for farming, crowds flock to Agritechnica, herbicide ban threat, & hundreds pay tribute to David Richardson

53

Farm Profitability Review - Minette Batters makes 57 recommendations, MPs call for farm productivity boost, & how growers are being rewarding for regenerative farming

54

Supermarkets refuse to engage with farm assurance review, gene-editing and classical swine fever, & why the world needs more red meat

55

Legal advice over backdated milk price cuts, Scottish farming future funding, & encouraging the next generation into agriculture

56

Banned Red Tractor advert - what can we learn? Farm management company serves notice on 8,000ha, future for contract farming, & stewardship extension

57

Government could ease inheritance tax pain, British Food Fortnight - should Defra do more?, fertiliser market, & bursary pays farm student fees

58

Big delay to flagship green scheme, milk market tumble, bluetongue latest, farm protest at Labour conference, & Farmers Weekly Awards

59

Special czar to oversee tenant farming, AI(Live): how artificial intelligence is boosting livestock productivity, & Future of Food exhibition at the Science Museum

60

Growers rip up autumn cropping plans, rebel MPs battle inheritance tax, farmers told to repay environmental funding, & AgriFuture Forum welcomes new entrants

61

Stewardship cliff-edge, Back British Farming Day, Agroforestry Show & beef-calf strategy at Dairy Day

62

New Defra secretary Emma Reynolds – what can we expect? Confusion over funding for Young Farmers, bovine TB, and school launches BTEC in agriculture

63

Farmers help firefighters battle huge moorland blaze, hay and straw shortage, pig and poultry pollution, & warning over safe tractor driving

64

Oilseed rape - surprise crop of the year? Sugar beet price, food price inflation, more on electronic tagging, and tributes to David Richardson

65

AHDB harvest error, alternative inheritance tax plan, Vivergo bioethanol plant, drought, & electronic ID for cattle

66

Kemi Badenoch hits out on inheritance tax, dairy farmer crowdfunds renewable energy project, harvest update & deep dive into autumn weed control

67

Donald Trump on farm inheritance tax, 4WD electric pickup 'gamechanger', Clarkson's Farm goes down with bovine TB, & farmer leaves £500k to charity

68

'Godfather' of regenerative agriculture Gabe Brown on future of farming, support for nature-friendly food production, & plan to monetise farm data

69

Former British Lion Tom Youngs talks rugby and farming, progress on national food strategy, Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales, & variable catchy harvest

70

Drought and wildfire warning, new Tesco boss backs farmers, parts suppliers frustration, growing olives in Lincolnshire

71

Groundswell 2025: £150m in capital grants for farmers, former Defra adviser on farming future, how to unlock nature markets, big business invests in farming, AHDB chief exec plans for farm levies

72

Early start for harvest 2025, moisture meters, why it's gone quiet on inheritance tax, Fram Farmers trials day, & CowPie Country Show

73

Red Tractor must avoid 'fudged' reform, bluetongue restriction havoc in Wales, Scottish beef at the Royal Highland Show, Farming Rules for Water, and more on skylarks at Cereals

74

Verdict on government spending review, outrage at imported supermarket beef, bumper Cereals event, & top accolade for 21-year-old oat variety

75

Spending review - likely impact on farming, Cereals event preview, and getting the message across on Open Farm Sunday

76

Farmers quit UK to farm in France, nature-friendly farm support concerns, North Sheep, Red Tractor latest, yellow rust gene failure confirmed, & Madam Tussauds celebrates national sausage roll day

77

Janet Hughes 'hard act to follow at Defra', new AHDB chair, Green Farm Collective, regenerative wheat & wool, UK-EU veterinary deal, & beef under the climate cosh

78

US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins talks trade deals in London; delay inheritance tax plan, MPs tell government; SFI reopens for 3000 farmers; & Defra's food strategy

79

What next for the Sustainable Farming Incentive? Impact of US-UK trade deal on farming, small abattoirs, & silage trailer safety

80

Hottest May Day – crops swelter as temperatures soar, ground-breaking farm tenancies, Rothamsted redundancies, & food security – could rationing return?

81

Farmers Weekly Question Time: Tenant Farmers Conference 2025 - Farmers Weekly Question Time

82

Will your children sink the family farm? Inheritance tax and succession planning, dairy farms dump milk after processing breakdown, & why climate-friendly farmers are turned off by Net Zero

83

Endangered hedges, bonanza beef vision, grant fund to ADOPT innovation, foot-and-mouth meat and dairy import ban, & sweary singing farmers

84

Minette's farm profitability review, should farmers really diversify? Resistant wheat shows signs of yellow rust, local food plan report, & auctioneer's giant red fibre glass cow goes missing

85

Bread strike & hot cross buns, Trump & tariffs, animal disease & border controls, AHDB levy board future, & Sustainable Farming Incentive latest

86

Red Tractor pledges smarter farm audits, action plan to reduce pesticide usage, & vigilance needed after bird flu confirmed in sheep

87

How to rescue the Sustainable Farming Incentive, farmers ramp up food production, pressure on spring seed and fertiliser, red diesel rumours, & why big business wants to invest in your farm

88

Options for farmers locked out of Sustainable Farming Incentive, food security report, & is there a future for lab-grown meat?

89

Emergency Podcast: Defra pulls plug on Sustainable Farming Incentive

90

Rebel Labour MPs back farmers on inheritance tax, Pancake Day Rally, livestock mart hits out at 'keyboard warriors', climate change adaptation, & 'green' farmland market

91

Defra's not-so-new farm policies, Pancake Day Rally against inheritance tax, NFU conference 2025 special, & how to succeed at succession planning

92

Farmers Weekly Question Time: Plumpton College - Farmers Weekly Question Time

93

Chink of light on inheritance tax, farming's 'pecking order', Scotland's new farm leader, oilseed rape challenges, & why farming is harder than rocket science

94

How to improve farm assurance, LEAF conference, colder weather on the way, upbeat DairyTech event, & Big Farmland Bird Count

95

Defra plan to reduce UK farmland, bonkers beef prices, Fenland Soil conference, & banks back farmers on inheritance tax

96

Pea revival: can Pulse Pioneers save the planet? Farm assurance review: leadership culture under fire, spring fertiliser market, & inheritance tax - Farming Day of Unity

97

Peak Power: LAMMA farm machinery show special, retail giant Morrisons backs farmers on inheritance tax, Shadow Defra secretary Victoria Atkins, & latest farm protest plans

98

New deal or raw deal? Defra's big plan for farming; British farmers adopt French-style protests, Farming Day of Unity, & glyphosate resistant weeds confirmed in UK

99

Farmers Weekly Question Time: Oxford Farming Conference 2025 - Farmers Weekly Question Time

100

Profitable food production in 2025, how to make money from the environment, & making sense of Labour's policies for farming – our special Oxford Farming Conference preview