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
- 293
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
SFI 2023 Final Cut: What's in it for your farm? Hollywood encounter at the Royal Highland Show; Cost of living crunch for meat and dairy; Brexit seven year itch, & the tractors that power Glastonbury Festival
In this episode, we look at the latest offering of government support for English farmers – the long-awaited 2023 Sustainable Farming Incentive.
What does it mean for your farm? And what happens to th…
AHDB plans levy hike after 'near death' experience, SFI payment rate preview, Cereals event, wheat and barley diseases, oilseed rape prospects, & The Wurzels gig for charity
In this episode, farmers face a hike in levy rates under plans announced by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
It follows what has been described as a 'near death experience' by the l…
Police action to tackle rural crime wave, prospects for this year's cereal harvest, how to improve farm profits, red-tape threat to non-assured livestock, & epic combine harvester drive for charity
In this episode, a rural crime wave has seen machinery and high-tech equipment stolen from farms across the country.
We ask, what are the police doing about it?
With harvest not far off, we get latest …
New season fertiliser prices, expert warning over food security, tractor market analysed, how to run the countryside, & Cereals event preview
This week, with new season prices now unveiled, how should you best secure your fertiliser requirements?
A food security expert says the government needs to think differently when supporting farmers t…
Pickups For Peace – UK farmers deliver 100 four-wheel-drive vehicles to Ukraine, tenant farmers accuse Defra of dragging heels on Rock Review, small abattoir revival, British wool prospects, & Cornwall Council backs local farmers
This week, tenant farmers accuse the government of taking a “pick and mix” approach to reform of the tenanted sector in England.
It follows the government's long-awaited response to last autumn's Rock…
Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper visits Downing Street – was food summit just a PR stunt?, environmental footprinting, agroforestry, fertiliser markets, & how to measure methane emissions from sheep
This week, Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper and Rishi Sunak pose for the cameras at No. 10 Downing Street.
So was the Prime Minister's Farm to Fork summit just a PR stunt? Or is the government finall…
Rishi Sunak's Farm to Fork summit, farm input costs, Defra's ageing IT systems, food security, sheep prices, pig producers bounce back, & celebration of farming in Surrey
In this episode, as Rishi Sunak summons farm leaders to Downing Street, we ask: what can we expect from the Prime Minister's food summit?
High inflation has made food increasingly unaffordable for man…
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Welcome to this special episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast – the Farmers Weekly Question Time event at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
Recorded in front of a live studio audience, f…
Farmer confidence survey, Small Robot Company in battle for survival, crowdfunding agritech startups, free range eggs, & Coronation fund for rare breed livestock
In this episode, we examine how UK farmers are striving to overcome low confidence in the sector – caused in part by high input costs.
Confidence among farmers is at a low ebb, according to the latest…
Warmer weather to follow wet spring, ag-inflation, buying groups, fertiliser prices, carbon-sucking shrubs, sugar beet prospects, & NFU London Marathon runners raise £30k for Farm Africa
This week, it's all about the weather as we cross our fingers in the hope that a cold, wet spring gives way to something a little warmer.
As the latest ag-inflation figures are released, we talk the t…
Is it time to scrap the Red Tractor? WildFarmed boost for arable regenerative farmers, golden glow for UK sunflowers, & RyanAir boss Michael O'Leary's pedigree beef herd
This week, does the Red Tractor farm assurance scheme still serve its purpose? Or is it time to get rid of it?
Red Tractor assurance chair Christine Tacon insists the scheme very much has its place – …
Farmers Weekly Question Time: John Innes Centre, Norwich - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Welcome to this special episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast – the Farmers Weekly Question Time event at the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
Recorded in front of a live studio audience, farmers, students…
Dairy doldrums, spring crop nutrition, liquid v solid fertiliser, beef markets, greenhouse gas emissions, & farmer runs ultramarathon – in the Sahara desert
This week, as dairy processors and retailers reduce farmgate and retail milk prices, we examine the prospects for British farmers.
With crop nutrition programmes well under way this spring, we find ou…
Meat: Our Expectations campaign, high energy prices threaten food production, biodiversity net gain rules explained, & do consumers recognise the Red Tractor label?
In this episode, Farmers Weekly launches a four-point plan to clean up the UK meat supply chain after uncovering a major food fraud scandal.
The Meat: Our Expectations campaign is seeking views from …
Criminal inquiry into ‘rotten meat’ scandal, urea fertiliser threat, succession planning, milk price cuts, & dairy farming couple launch cheese brand
The government tells farmers to use urea fertiliser se…
Latest Countryside Stewardship offer – pros and cons, Natural England data leak, arable commodity prices, UK v Australia sheep management, how to get a better farm-life balance, & MooCall calving device on Clarkson's Farm
In this episode, we look at the pros and cons as the government launches its latest countryside stewardship offer for farmers in England.
Government landscape agency Natural England is under fire afte…
NFU leader condemns 'unacceptable behaviour' in UK agriculture, Spring Budget – winners and losers, phosphate fertiliser prospects, market prices, & sibling rivalry at the sheep shearing world championships
In this episode, farm leader Minette Batters has condemned unacceptable behaviour in UK agriculture – including at work and work-related events.
It comes after a woman at last month's NFU conference …
Exclusive: Supermarket sells South American beef labelled as British, how to boost hill farm incomes, why arable markets are falling, & Scottish farmers fuel farmland bird revival
This week, Exclusive - South American beef labelled British: 10 years after the horsegate scandal, just how safe is the UK’s red meat supply chain?
Crisis in the uplands: with hill farm incomes forec…
Carbon farming, Scottish farm policy 'bromance', record-breaking beef prices - how high will they go? What Windsor Agreement means for Northern Ireland’s farmers, Commodity Cashback competition, & sending Easycare sheep genetics to New Zealand
This week – it really black gold? We go carbon farming with growers and livestock producers in Sussex.
We look at Scottish agriculture policy - and ask whether politicians and farm leaders are working…
Farmers Weekly Question Time: SRUC Oatridge, Scotland's Rural College - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Welcome to this special episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast – the Farmers Weekly Question Time event at SRUC Oatridge, Scotland's Rural College in West Lothian.
Recorded in front of a live studio au…