The Farming Programme

Should you be spraying yet, should you be planting now? Agronomist Sean Sparling has some key advice.

Opportunities from agricultural transition, future farm funding, grants, land and food security.

A Lincolnshire company is innovating to make farm machinery parts better quality and better value.

Plus crops, markets, farming news and weather.

THE WEEK IN AGRICULTURE, EVERY SUNDAY MORNING FROM 7.

Lots of reports from the Low Carbon Ag Show: methane, drones, eco crops, livestock movements.

A new slurry inoculant formulation

Tractors (and lambs) into Schools

Plus the week's farming news and weather, the markets, crops and some timely and important agronomy advice

The week in agriculture.

• A year of farm pick-ups and 4x4s going to Ukraine; and they're on their way again. We speak to the organiser en-route to Lviv.

• Updates on potatoes, crops, markets and weather.

• Timey and important agronomy advice.

• Details of a farm safety event in Newark this week.

• Getting maize away successfully in waterlogged soil.

What's on at the forthcoming Low Carbon Agriculture Show?

What does the CLA want from the next government?

Thoughts on carbon calculators, eating better and the true cost of cheap food.

Plus agronomy advice and should we grow companion crops with oilseed rape to reduce cabbage stem flea beetle?

The week's markets, news and weather.

Another Lincolnshire farming champion - how did he do it?

Lots of tractors will soon be rumbling into playgrounds - why? Could you get involved?

We're talking problems with peat with one of the speakers from the recent Lincolnshire Farming Conference.

Plus, agronomy advice, the week's farming news, weather and markets.

Hear the thoughts of many of the speakers at the recent Lincolnshire Farming Conference - 'Future Farming Opportunities: Biodiversity and Carbon'. How did this year's Yield Enhancement Network's champion achieve his fantastic yields? Why is all not rosy in the tenant and landlord garden? Plus crop and market reports, the week's farming news and weather.

Will SFI kill food production in the UK? We're looking ahead to the Lincolnshire Farming Conference and Mind Your Head Week. The Big Farmland Bird Count is on, can you help? Plus the week's farming news, weather and markets.

We're out with the police this week and we've got the latest fly-tipping stats. We play Farming Simulator and hear about an upcoming ag careers event in Lincolnshire. Plus the week's farming news, markets and weather AND the return of our crop guru, independent agronomist, Sean Sparling with a walk through the fields and some important and timely agronomy advice.

Lots from LAMMA; a new, free 'Farm for the Future' programme; new grant money for solar; the week's farming news, weather and the livestock and grain markets and prices.

All you need to know on the changes to SFI; new land drainage training; LAMMA preview; the livestock and grain markets; the farming news and weather for the week ahead.