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The Farmers Weekly Podcast — 112 episodes
Drought crisis loans, does regen farming stack up?, bluetongue vaccination, & China food security
£65m drought aid, autumn drilling, livestock forage, firefighting farmers & fundraising for mental health
Drought crisis, grain marketing, farm welfare grants, & 150 years of Aberdeen Angus cattle
Bluetongue surge, harvest yields explained, and wildlife-friendly farming
Angela Eagle returns to Defra, Welsh farm funding, sugar beet factory closure, David Barton tribute, & combine harvester fires
What to expect from Andy Burnham's government, no murder charge over farm shooting, & UK chickpea challenge
Heatwave harvest grain-washing alert, Farming Roadmap 'waffle', Scottish agriculture, & Erling Haaland backs British farmers
Groundswell 2026: Private money for green farming, Wildfarmed, Kemi Badenoch & 10 years of regenerative agriculture
Flaming June, Farming Roadmap, bovine TB, farm machinery 10 years post- Brexit, and green award for farm estate
Verdict on SFI budget, fertiliser warning, Red Tractor responds, and Only Farmers
Cereals 2026 at Clarkson's Farm: Does it still pay to grow combinable crops?
Relaunched SFI - what it means for you, High Court and abattoirs, Red Tractor, and Open Farm Sunday
Carbon cash delays, farm assurance frustration, Minette Batters book, & the rise of regenerative supply chains
Hare-coursing clampdown, tariffs cut on food imports, Beef Expo, & fertiliser from thin air
Fuel and fertiliser fears deepen, Dyson’s farm future, pig markets, & a royal farming honour
Glyphosate ban - would it work? Licences for dairy and livestock farmers, beef price wobble and starter farm tenancy
Fertiliser - best time to buy, regenerative farm tenancies, AI bird counts, & TikTok cow-huggers
Turmoil over autumn cropping – Clarkson hits out, Starmer tackled on red diesel, Cereals preview & farm safety
Legal challenge over unauthorised Traveller sites, setting the record straight on grain prices, and farmer runs marathon for dad and Sepsis Trust
Help on new inheritance tax rules, electricity standing charges, farm management software, & dog attacks on sheep
MPs launch farm profit campaign, Ensus bioethanol plant, spring lamb boom, and on-farm indoor ski slope
Red diesel prices reach new highs, Land Use Framework, upland farmers shut out of schemes, and farmer fends off industry challenges
Latest farm income figures, Natural England admits environmental payments aren’t delivering, and Nigel Farage under fire over chlorinated chicken
Iran War: Impact on UK fertiliser, fuel & food security
Revamped SFI payment rates, fly-tipping, NFU elections, & farm minister Angela Eagle
Big drop in farmland sales, £100m landscape recovery scheme, Red Tractor, winter bean warning, & storing winter rainfall
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
Winter floods, drainage and soil health, Big Farmland Bird Count, closer UK-EU links and farming, & Mind Your Head week
Judge orders review of inheritance tax, beef & dairy licence to farm, cereal yields & YEN future
Farmers Weekly Question Time: AICC Agronomy Conference 2026
Why farming needs better leaders, illegal meat imports, lamb welfare and tail-docking, & Society of Agriculture
Doubts over net zero for farming, arable profits and independent agronomy, NFU leadership challenge, farmland market, and Women in Agriculture
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Oxford Farming Conference 2026
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
Inheritance tax special - what Christmas climbdown means for your farm business
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
Nightmare before Christmas: Battle to save biodiversity net gain, cross-resistance fungicide warning, UK-France lamb war, & Red Tractor reviews standards
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
Police face questions over banned London tractor protest, inheritance tax & what Budget means for your farm business, and National Fruit Show celebration
Update on Sustainable Farming Incentive, new campaign against inheritance tax, food inflation, CLA conference, and Tesco launches environmental baselining
Torturous wait for Defra's vision for farming, crowds flock to Agritechnica, herbicide ban threat, & hundreds pay tribute to David Richardson
Farm Profitability Review - Minette Batters makes 57 recommendations, MPs call for farm productivity boost, & how growers are being rewarding for regenerative farming
Supermarkets refuse to engage with farm assurance review, gene-editing and classical swine fever, & why the world needs more red meat
Legal advice over backdated milk price cuts, Scottish farming future funding, & encouraging the next generation into agriculture
Banned Red Tractor advert - what can we learn? Farm management company serves notice on 8,000ha, future for contract farming, & stewardship extension
Government could ease inheritance tax pain, British Food Fortnight - should Defra do more?, fertiliser market, & bursary pays farm student fees
Big delay to flagship green scheme, milk market tumble, bluetongue latest, farm protest at Labour conference, & Farmers Weekly Awards
Special czar to oversee tenant farming, AI(Live): how artificial intelligence is boosting livestock productivity, & Future of Food exhibition at the Science Museum
Growers rip up autumn cropping plans, rebel MPs battle inheritance tax, farmers told to repay environmental funding, & AgriFuture Forum welcomes new entrants
Stewardship cliff-edge, Back British Farming Day, Agroforestry Show & beef-calf strategy at Dairy Day
New Defra secretary Emma Reynolds – what can we expect? Confusion over funding for Young Farmers, bovine TB, and school launches BTEC in agriculture
Farmers help firefighters battle huge moorland blaze, hay and straw shortage, pig and poultry pollution, & warning over safe tractor driving
Oilseed rape - surprise crop of the year? Sugar beet price, food price inflation, more on electronic tagging, and tributes to David Richardson
AHDB harvest error, alternative inheritance tax plan, Vivergo bioethanol plant, drought, & electronic ID for cattle
Kemi Badenoch hits out on inheritance tax, dairy farmer crowdfunds renewable energy project, harvest update & deep dive into autumn weed control
Donald Trump on farm inheritance tax, 4WD electric pickup 'gamechanger', Clarkson's Farm goes down with bovine TB, & farmer leaves £500k to charity
'Godfather' of regenerative agriculture Gabe Brown on future of farming, support for nature-friendly food production, & plan to monetise farm data
Former British Lion Tom Youngs talks rugby and farming, progress on national food strategy, Sustainable Farming Scheme for Wales, & variable catchy harvest
Drought and wildfire warning, new Tesco boss backs farmers, parts suppliers frustration, growing olives in Lincolnshire
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
Early start for harvest 2025, moisture meters, why it's gone quiet on inheritance tax, Fram Farmers trials day, & CowPie Country Show
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
Verdict on government spending review, outrage at imported supermarket beef, bumper Cereals event, & top accolade for 21-year-old oat variety
Spending review - likely impact on farming, Cereals event preview, and getting the message across on Open Farm Sunday
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
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
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
What next for the Sustainable Farming Incentive? Impact of US-UK trade deal on farming, small abattoirs, & silage trailer safety
Hottest May Day – crops swelter as temperatures soar, ground-breaking farm tenancies, Rothamsted redundancies, & food security – could rationing return?
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
Endangered hedges, bonanza beef vision, grant fund to ADOPT innovation, foot-and-mouth meat and dairy import ban, & sweary singing farmers
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
Bread strike & hot cross buns, Trump & tariffs, animal disease & border controls, AHDB levy board future, & Sustainable Farming Incentive latest
Red Tractor pledges smarter farm audits, action plan to reduce pesticide usage, & vigilance needed after bird flu confirmed in sheep
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
Options for farmers locked out of Sustainable Farming Incentive, food security report, & is there a future for lab-grown meat?
Emergency Podcast: Defra pulls plug on Sustainable Farming Incentive
Rebel Labour MPs back farmers on inheritance tax, Pancake Day Rally, livestock mart hits out at 'keyboard warriors', climate change adaptation, & 'green' farmland market
Defra's not-so-new farm policies, Pancake Day Rally against inheritance tax, NFU conference 2025 special, & how to succeed at succession planning
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
How to improve farm assurance, LEAF conference, colder weather on the way, upbeat DairyTech event, & Big Farmland Bird Count
Defra plan to reduce UK farmland, bonkers beef prices, Fenland Soil conference, & banks back farmers on inheritance tax
Pea revival: can Pulse Pioneers save the planet? Farm assurance review: leadership culture under fire, spring fertiliser market, & inheritance tax - Farming Day of Unity
Peak Power: LAMMA farm machinery show special, retail giant Morrisons backs farmers on inheritance tax, Shadow Defra secretary Victoria Atkins, & latest farm protest plans
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
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
From artificial insemination to artificial intelligence ~ how agri-tech is shaping the future of farming
Tractor protest brings London to standstill, knock-on impact of tax changes, Farming Explained YouTube channel, & who are #Together?
Ban threat for autumn manure spreading, controversy over Bovaer feed additive, capital grants halted, wheat and barley recommended list, & London tractor protest
London ‘farm tax’ protest special - featuring Clarkson and thousands of family farmers
Clarkson joins London farm tax protest, 100 rural MPs voice concern over Budget, advice on changes to farm support, NFU anger at human cost of measures
Budget uproar - call for peaceful protest, life insurance and inheritance tax, tax on farm pick-ups, basic payment phase-out, future for family farms
Budget bombshell: Inheritance tax - how to reduce your liability
Budget preview, HedgeFest - payments fuel hedgerow revival, hill farming vital to upland future, & carbon-friendly fertiliser
New Scientist Live, how to get into farming, flood recovery fund, abattoirs and bluetongue, latest harvest estimates, Cow Burp-o-meter & Vauxhall City Farm
Payments for farmers to store flood water, government faces 'moment of truth' on farming, update on Basic Payment Scheme phase-out, & Rural Communities Mental Health Foundation
Who is to blame for Defra's £358m underspend on farming? Milk prices – has dairy finally turned the corner, gene-edited crops, landscape recovery schemes, & Farm Champion of the Year
Will it really be another wet autumn? Defra farm policy 'on hold' ahead of Autumn Budget, Soil Association Exchange – profitable sustainable farming, & Carbon Farmer of the Year
Budget, banks & bees - how farms are striving to 'do the right thing' after a challenging harvest. Plus Back British Farming Day, tenant farmer land grab and Dairy Day UK
Potato Days UK - do biosolutions really work?, Dyson Farming, carbon footprints and regenerative agriculture, Defra budget cuts, bluetongue outbreak, badger culling v cattle vaccine to combat bovine TB
Brian May under fire over call to end badger cull, ban on sheep and goat dairy imports, Clarkson's Farm boost for ag students, harvest progress latest, & snail farm in tax avoidance probe
Harvest 2024 special: Yields, quality and ergot - on the grain trail from combine to customer
Unwrapped: the latest SFI update, potato virus in Scotland, winter linseed break crops, harvest update and market prices, & Aberdeen Angus history book
Government's 'new deal' for farmers, £150m lottery fund for landscapes, more Defra budget concerns, sheep sector future, & Suffolk farmer's American WW2 memorial
Defra farm budget, food security and Net Zero warning, harvest latest, Royal Welsh Show, former farm minister Mark Spencer on 'traumatic' election defeat, & funeral director unveils Land Rover hearse
Young farmer cheats death in bale accident, police target dangerous trailers, Oliver Walston tribute, Farm Safety Week, reboot urged for oilseed rape, & Royal Golden Guernsey Goat
Harvest 2024, blended wheats, supply chain fairness pledge by new Defra secretary Steve Reed, market prices, & shearing 660 sheep in 24 hours
What the Labour government means for your farm business; with former Defra secretary George Eustice and former NFU president Minette Batters
What is best: Conventional v regenerative agriculture? Soil health; Premiums for climate-friendly farming - who should pay? Groundswell 2024; John Kempf; eco-acoustics; & the Rob Stephenson Trust
Rishi Sunak's £1bn pledge for farming, farmer builds own direct drill, future for Scottish agriculture, Farmers Weekly 90th birthday, Ag-onomics with David and Jack, & 5K every day in June
Covid-style business loans for farmers, Cereals 2024, latest wheat varieties, arable input costs, Recommended List 80th anniversary, & world's biggest loaf of bread
Dog attacks on sheep, battle to win farm votes, Cereals event preview, early drilling conundrum, & malting barley prospects