The Farmers Weekly Podcast

The inside track on the biggest stories affecting UK agriculture - with Johann Tasker and Louise Impey. Every Friday.

Endangered hedges, bonanza beef vision, grant fund to ADOPT innovation, foot-and-mouth meat and dairy import ban, & sweary singing farmers
Apr 17, 2025 – 46:54
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
Apr 12, 2025 – 54:58
Bread strike & hot cross buns, Trump & tariffs, animal disease & border controls, AHDB levy board future, & Sustainable Farming Incentive latest
Apr 4, 2025 – 52:08
Red Tractor pledges smarter farm audits, action plan to reduce pesticide usage, & vigilance needed after bird flu confirmed in sheep
Mar 28, 2025 – 52:31
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
Mar 21, 2025 – 52:04
Options for farmers locked out of Sustainable Farming Incentive, food security report, & is there a future for lab-grown meat?
Mar 14, 2025 – 49:56
Emergency Podcast: Defra pulls plug on Sustainable Farming Incentive
Mar 11, 2025 – 28:17
Rebel Labour MPs back farmers on inheritance tax, Pancake Day Rally, livestock mart hits out at 'keyboard warriors', climate change adaptation, & 'green' farmland market
Mar 7, 2025 – 46:33
Defra's not-so-new farm policies, Pancake Day Rally against inheritance tax, NFU conference 2025 special, & how to succeed at succession planning
Feb 28, 2025 – 53:04
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Plumpton College - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:18:03
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
Feb 14, 2025 – 46:54
How to improve farm assurance, LEAF conference, colder weather on the way, upbeat DairyTech event, & Big Farmland Bird Count
Feb 7, 2025 – 46:18
Defra plan to reduce UK farmland, bonkers beef prices, Fenland Soil conference, & banks back farmers on inheritance tax
Jan 31, 2025 – 43:15
Pea revival: can Pulse Pioneers save the planet? Farm assurance review: leadership culture under fire, spring fertiliser market, & inheritance tax - Farming Day of Unity
Jan 24, 2025 – 45:15
Peak Power: LAMMA farm machinery show special, retail giant Morrisons backs farmers on inheritance tax, Shadow Defra secretary Victoria Atkins, & latest farm protest plans
Jan 17, 2025 – 43:33
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
Jan 10, 2025 – 41:56
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Oxford Farming Conference 2025 - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Jan 9, 2025 – 01:01:27
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
Jan 3, 2025 – 42:48
From artificial insemination to artificial intelligence ~ how agri-tech is shaping the future of farming
Dec 20, 2024 – 32:43
Tractor protest brings London to standstill, knock-on impact of tax changes, Farming Explained YouTube channel, & who are #Together?
Dec 13, 2024 – 37:10
Ban threat for autumn manure spreading, controversy over Bovaer feed additive, capital grants halted, wheat and barley recommended list, & London tractor protest
Dec 6, 2024 – 38:23
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Impact of inheritance tax on family farms - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Nov 29, 2024 – 01:08:51
London ‘farm tax’ protest special - featuring Clarkson and thousands of family farmers
Nov 22, 2024 – 41:26
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
Nov 15, 2024 – 38:10
Budget uproar - call for peaceful protest, life insurance and inheritance tax, tax on farm pick-ups, basic payment phase-out, future for family farms
Nov 8, 2024 – 39:11
Budget bombshell: Inheritance tax - how to reduce your liability
Nov 1, 2024 – 26:28
Budget preview, HedgeFest - payments fuel hedgerow revival, hill farming vital to upland future, & carbon-friendly fertiliser
Oct 25, 2024 – 40:57
New Scientist Live, how to get into farming, flood recovery fund, abattoirs and bluetongue, latest harvest estimates, Cow Burp-o-meter & Vauxhall City Farm
Oct 18, 2024 – 40:52
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
Oct 11, 2024 – 33:40
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
Oct 4, 2024 – 41:50
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
Sep 27, 2024 – 44:28
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
Sep 13, 2024 – 36:14
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
Sep 6, 2024 – 58:15
Farmers Weekly Question Time: Cookstown, Northern Ireland - Farmers Weekly Question Time
Aug 29, 2024 – 01:20:37
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
Aug 23, 2024 – 37:21
Harvest 2024 special: Yields, quality and ergot - on the grain trail from combine to customer
Aug 16, 2024 – 45:21
Unwrapped: the latest SFI update, potato virus in Scotland, winter linseed break crops, harvest update and market prices, & Aberdeen Angus history book
Aug 9, 2024 – 43:24
Government's 'new deal' for farmers, £150m lottery fund for landscapes, more Defra budget concerns, sheep sector future, & Suffolk farmer's American WW2 memorial
Aug 2, 2024 – 47:28
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
Jul 26, 2024 – 41:13
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
Jul 19, 2024 – 39:23
Harvest 2024, blended wheats, supply chain fairness pledge by new Defra secretary Steve Reed, market prices, & shearing 660 sheep in 24 hours
Jul 12, 2024 – 34:28
What the Labour government means for your farm business; with former Defra secretary George Eustice and former NFU president Minette Batters
Jul 5, 2024 – 47:58
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
Jun 28, 2024 – 45:48
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
Jun 21, 2024 – 45:16
Covid-style business loans for farmers, Cereals 2024, latest wheat varieties, arable input costs, Recommended List 80th anniversary, & world's biggest loaf of bread
Jun 14, 2024 – 50:01
Dog attacks on sheep, battle to win farm votes, Cereals event preview, early drilling conundrum, & malting barley prospects
Jun 7, 2024 – 42:08
Young farmer culture, muck and slurry legal case, livestock handling safety, & best tractor over 90 years
May 31, 2024 – 50:40
Lowdown on latest SFI offer, general election candidates target farmers, glyphosate and regenerative farming, Wildfarmed wheat, Green Farm Collective, & 10 years of Yellow Wellies
May 24, 2024 – 44:20
Farm to Fork Summit 2.0, Rishi Sunak's food security index, Is pig sector recovery all porky pies?, technology helps overcome challenging season, & charity sheep shearing
May 17, 2024 – 40:09
Defra pledges more support to secure farming future, Transition Live 2024, Cambridge University farm, fertiliser markets, environmental services, & circular dairy economy
May 10, 2024 – 38:34

Recent Reviews

KaiKai_31

I came for Clarkson Farm Review and Stayed

Listener here, from Colorado, U.S.! I found this podcast by looking up reviews on Clarkson Farm show. I binged it and became deeply interested in UK farming and how it correlates and is different compared to U.S. farming. I love this weekly podcast! They are funny, humble and most importantly to the point on what’s going on in UK farming and trade. Thanks guys for talking and sharing about what really matters. Our food! American Love 🤘🏼 Kylie B
Tau Mapuranga

Just Excellent

I listen from Harare, Zimbabwe and get very useful insights that help me with my farming journey as a millennial (29). Thank you so much to the team behind the production.