The Farming Programme

Good news this week around muckspreading and the use of Urea. We look back to the recently completed sugar beet campaign and ahead to Easter visitors. Plus crop, livestock and grain reports.

Weather, nitrogen alternatives, direct drilling, LEAF Open Farm Sunday and Countryside Lincs on this week's podcast. Plus market reports and the weather for the week to come.

We look at a new mowing system designed to protect bugs, insects and small creatures as well as helping wildflowers to bloom again at the roadside. We'll hear about some upcoming events benefitting local and farming charities that you and I can support. Plus timely advice from our crop doctor, market reports and the weather for the week to come.

What to do with those old household batteries - turn them into fertiliser! We'll hear about electric quad bikes, automating lettuces and breeding flies for feed. Plus agronomy, market reports and the weather for the week to come.

Will the new red diesel rules affect you? We've a critical food safety message, plus agronomy advice, market reports and the weather for the week. How many of us fully understand the transition from BPS to ELMS? We've have help in the form of a CLA roadshow. And we'll hear all about a school farm garden near Boston.

What effect could the extra salt as a result of rising sea levels have on our soil and crops? Why were so many tractors in school playgrounds and so many people at Newark Showground last week? The answers, plus agronomy, market reports and the week's farming weather on the Farming Programme.

A bit of an educational theme this week as we hear about a food, farming and environment schools challenge, an agricultural apprentice open event and we'll learn what we can expect from Cereals as it returns to Duxford this summer. Plus livestock and grain market reports and why am I going back on a diet?!

If you're an AHDB levy payer, or a farmer thinking of retirement, or any other kind of farmer, it's important you listen to this week's Farming Programme. Plus agronomy advice, concerns over glyphosate supply, market reports, farming news and weather.

A report from the pig sector crisis meeting with Defra, the launch of a very important campaign to promote better mental health in agriculture and part two of our visit to a vertical farm growing millions of basil plants, all year round. Plus timely agronomy advice, market reports and the weather for the week to come.

If you eat basil, there's a good chance it was grown in an old industrial unit in Scunthorpe - Steve pays a visit to a vertical farm. The Big Farmland Bird Count returns for its 9th year. Plus agronomy, market reports, farming news and weather.