The Farmers Weekly Podcast
The inside track on the biggest stories affecting UK agriculture - with Johann Tasker, Louise Impey and Hugh Broom. Every Friday.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 292
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
From artificial insemination to artificial intelligence ~ how agri-tech is shaping the future of farming
In this episode, we visit the AgriTechE REAP conference – the annual showcase for the latest innovations in agriculture.
We find out how simple innovations can make farming more profitable – enabling …
Tractor protest brings London to standstill, knock-on impact of tax changes, Farming Explained YouTube channel, & who are #Together?
Hundreds of tractors descend on central London as farmers ramp up protests against the government's autumn Budget.
As 500 tractors park outside Downing Street, we speak to farmers and protest organise…
Ban threat for autumn manure spreading, controversy over Bovaer feed additive, capital grants halted, wheat and barley recommended list, & London tractor protest
In this episode, could ban on autumn manure-spreading applications be the next body blow to hit Britain’s farmers?
Well, quite possibly, as industry representatives are summoned to meet Defra official…
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Impact of inheritance tax on family farms - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Welcome to this special episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast – the Farmers Weekly Question Time event at Harper Adams University in Shropshire.
Recorded in front of a live studio audience, farmers, s…
London ‘farm tax’ protest special - featuring Clarkson and thousands of family farmers
Thousands of farmers gather in London to lobby MPs and protest against changes to inheritance tax rules.
From April 2026, agricultural assets worth more than £1m will be liable for 20% inheritance tax…
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
In this episode, Jeremy Clarkson is set to join thousands of farmers protesting against the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on farmland.
The TV celebrity and star of Clarkson's Farm is…
Budget uproar - call for peaceful protest, life insurance and inheritance tax, tax on farm pick-ups, basic payment phase-out, future for family farms
In this episode, industry leaders urge farmers not to take direct action following the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on farmland.
Thousands of farmers are expected to descend on Lond…
Budget bombshell: Inheritance tax - how to reduce your liability
A special episode after an autumn Budget which promises huge changes to farm businesses – and indeed for farming families.
The Budget saw Chancellor Rachel Reeves announce major changes to agricultura…
Budget preview, HedgeFest - payments fuel hedgerow revival, hill farming vital to upland future, & carbon-friendly fertiliser
In this episode, as the government's Budget looms we ask three experts what farmers should expect in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
We find out why the Sustainable Farming Incentive is fuelling in…
New Scientist Live, how to get into farming, flood recovery fund, abattoirs and bluetongue, latest harvest estimates, Cow Burp-o-meter & Vauxhall City Farm
UK agriculture faces a huge skills gap – with lots of opportunities for people wanting to work in the sector or start their own agri-business.
In this episode, we find out how UK farming is encouragin…
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
In this episode, as the wet autumn continues, we look at flood management – and payments for farmers to protect communities by storing flood water.
We have the latest on the NFU's campaign for a fair …
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
In this episode, we ask who is to blame for Defra's reported £358m underspend on farming – and can it really be justified?
A better year ahead? After a challenging time, the latest forecasts suggest U…
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
In this episode, after a week of torrential rain and floods washes away newly drilled cereal crops, we ask: will it really be another wet autumn?
We find out why Defra policy is on hold ahead of the A…
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
In this episode, we look at the future for farm support following a UK cereal harvest said to be among the worst in living memory.
We travel to London for Back British Farming Day as growers and lives…
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
In this episode, we look at the future of the UK potato sector with a special visit to the Potato Days UK event at Dyson Farming.
With the crop under pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, we find o…
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Cookstown, Northern Ireland - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Welcome to this special episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast – the Farmers Weekly Question Time event at Cookstown in Northern Ireland.
Recorded in front of a live studio audience, farmers, students …
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
In this episode, Queen guitarist and wildlife campaigner Brian May is under fire after calling for an end to badger culling in England.
The complaints come head of a BBC TV documentary in which Sir B…
Harvest 2024 special: Yields, quality and ergot - on the grain trail from combine to customer
In this episode, we pay a special visit to the UK's biggest farmer-owned grain storage facility at the height of harvest.
Camgrain stores up to 500,000 tonnes of cereals, oilseed rape and pulse crops…
Unwrapped: the latest SFI update, potato virus in Scotland, winter linseed break crops, harvest update and market prices, & Aberdeen Angus history book
In this episode, we get to grips with the latest Sustainable Farming Incentive – and what it means for your farm business.
Scottish growers face heavy losses after virus-hit potato crops are destroyed…
Government's 'new deal' for farmers, £150m lottery fund for landscapes, more Defra budget concerns, sheep sector future, & Suffolk farmer's American WW2 memorial
In this episode, the government pledges a new deal for farmers to boost confidence across the industry.
We look at what the promise might mean – and what it might deliver.
Lottery money for landscapes …