As we take a look at water security in farming this week, the NFU's water specialist gives us an overview of the issues farmers are facing at the moment.

New research looks at why bees are emerging earlier in the year and how this might impact crops.

Scientists from the University of East Anglia and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory have installed sensors that can 'sniff' for a gas which could, one day, help mitigate the impact of global warming.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

All week on Farming Today we've been looking at egg production. We've had unique access to a hatchery in Peterborough, which provides chicks which will grow up to be the hens which lay our eggs.

One of the processes used in hatcheries, is to remove the tips of the chicks’ beaks with an infra-red laser. It’s known as beak trimming and it’s a means of stopping the mature birds from hurting each other by pecking at each others feathers - a behaviour which is common in chickens when they’re commercially farmed in big flocks. However there's been debate for years about whether the practice should be banned. We speak to campaigners who'd like it to be phased out.

We visit a free-range egg producer who is still keeping his birds indoors because even though he's allowed to let them out, he says the risk of bird flu is too great. He says a vaccine is the answer. We ask the chief vet how close farmers are to having a commercial vaccine to protect their flocks against influenza. Also we visit an egg producer in Shropshire who’s breaking 20 tonnes of eggs a day - on purpose! He's an egg farmer who specialises in producing liquid eggs.

And a trip to RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival where flower farmers are promoting home-grown blooms to shoppers and florists.

Presenter = Caz Graham

Producer = Rebecca Rooney

As part of our week focussing on the egg industry we visit one of just two hatcheries in England.

We ask how close are we to banning the trimming of chicks’ beaks.

Caz Graham visits award winning cheese producers near Wigton in Cumbria.

Two men have been given community service orders and fined by Swindon Magistrates Court for hunting offences.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

The Chief Vet says vaccination is still not an option for tackling bird flu in free range hens, but that progress is being made.

We visit a Shropshire egg producer who’s breaking 20 tonnes of eggs a day, on purpose!

Flower farming in the UK is on the up and florists, and the public, are being urged to buy British blooms to support it.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

All week we're discussing egg production. The industry's been hit very hard by a combination of rising costs for feed and fuel and bird flu. The disease is still prevalent and some free range producers are keeping their birds inside because they're too worried to let them out. We speak to one family about the toll bird flu's taken on both birds and farmer. They're calling for a vaccine.

It's ten years since the government gave the go-ahead to a cull of badgers, to try and control the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. The cull that started in a small corner of Gloucestershire has now spread to much of England. More than 210,000 badgers have been culled since 2013, and more than 330,000 cattle put down because of the disease too. It's been a area of fierce debate between farmers and conservationists. Now the government says it now wants to move towards a vaccination programme instead.

This June has been the warmest on record, according to the Met Office, but high temperatures can cause problems for plants and growers. We speak to meteorologist and Gardeners' Question Time host Peter Gibbs about changing weather patterns and their impact.

Presenter = Anna Hill

Producer = Rebecca Rooney

New project to breed sheep with a naturally low carbon-footprint. Sheep farmers and scientists are taking part in a £3 million Defra project to measure the methane emitted by sheep, monitoring around 13,000 animals across 45 different flocks.

All week we're looking at eggs. According to the industry body British Lion Eggs, we ate 5.9 billion of them in the UK last year. Nearly three quarters of the eggs we eat in the UK are free range , so to begin our week we're speaking to the British Free Range Egg Producers Association.

A conservation project to reintroduce the UK's rarest reptile on heathland in Devon. Numbers of smooth snakes have dwindled as their habitats have disappeared.

Presenter = Caz Graham

Producer = Rebecca Rooney

The long awaited publication of a government independent review Into labour shortages in the food supply chain is about to be published. We find out what farmers would like to see in the review, and what they need when it comes to labour.

The Scottish government has scrapped plans which would have meant the creation of Highly Protected Marine Areas in 10% of Scotland's seas. The proposals would have restricted fishing and other human activities in some coastal areas, in an attempt to protect the environment. Members of the fishing industry and some island communities raised concerns about the plans.

We’ve been discussing bacon all this week- today we visit a butchers to find out how it's cured. We also speak to food safety expert Professor Chris Elliott form Queen's University in Belfast, who is campaigning to have the use of nitrates in pork processing banned.

Presenter: Caz Graham

Producer: Rebecca Rooney

It’s a landmark week for farming in Wales. Members of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament, have voted through the first ever ‘made in Wales’ Agriculture Bill. It’s the first of the devolved nations to vote through its own home-grown agriculture bill since the UK withdrew from the European Union and the CAP, or Common Agricultural Policy. The bill sets out the framework for future food and farming policy in Wales, including how farmers will be supported for the work they do as the old EU system of subsidies, based on the amount of land farmed, is phased out.

All this week on Farming Today we’re talking bacon, specifically the bacon butty and how the bacon in our butties gets from the pig to plate. We visit a meat processing plant in the South West to see how pigs are slaughtered

The Silver Lapwing Award is one of the most prestigious and long standing accolades for farmers who are committed to making space for nature while running a working farm business. We meet last year's winner and the Welsh beef farmer who's been given the award this year.

Presenter - Caz Graham

Producer - Rebecca Rooney

The Climate Change Committee has published its annual report. The independent body, set up to scrutinise government progress towards net zero, says that it's less confident that the government will meet its goals, than it was a year ago.

MPs on the Environment Food and Rural Affairs committee have been drilling down into Baroness Rock's report into tenant farming which was published last October. It's estimated that 64% of farmland in England is rented. Baroness Rock told the committee that there's an unbalanced power dynamic between tenant farmers and their landlords and that plans for an independent commissioner to help tenant farmers are still some way off.

All week we're taking a closer look at the breakfast bacon buttie - and finding out about how that bacon gets on our plates. We've heard about breeding and rearing pigs for bacon, today we speak to buyers at a pig market in Somerset.

Presenter = Anna Hill

Producer = Rebecca Rooney

It'll take one billion pounds over five years to rescue England's ancient woodland, according to the Woodland Trust. It's published a report titled "Trees and Woods at the Heart of Nature Recovery" which claims that saving woodland and trees should be the starting point for national nature recovery. The plan proposes extra funding on top of government money set aside for tree-planting - including £150 million for temperate rainforest restoration, £250 million for restoring ancient woodland and £350 million for landscape-scale woodland projects.

Crofters in the Scottish Isles say the crisis in ferry services is having a devastating impact on businesses and threatens their way of life. There've been protests about the lack of services to South Uist, after sailings were stopped this month - there aren't enough boats because many need repairing. Now an inquiry has concluded that root and branch reform is needed. A report by the Scottish Parliament's Net Zero, Energy & Transport Committee says rapid turnover of transport ministers has made things worse. It's calling for a longer contract for the Clyde and Hebrides ferry service, and it says the Scottish Government should consider whether the infrastructure should be taken under state control.

All week we're charting how the bacon in a bacon buttie gets to our plates. We've spoken to a pig farmer about what they're getting paid, next we look at what traits farmers look for in their bacon-producing herd.

Presenter = Anna Hill

Producer = Rebecca Rooney