Latest Rutland Podcast Episodes
Farming Programme 26th May 2024
The Farming Programme - May 26, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFarming careers. Farm Safety Foundation's 10 years. More new pig & poultry products. Agronomy, news, weather and market reports. Possibly the biggest charity tractor run ever? THE WEEK IN AGRICULTURE.
Farming Programme 19th May 2024
The Farming Programme - May 19, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe're reporting on new products on show at the Pig & Poultry Fair. Hear from the Farm to Fork Summit and look ahead to the Farm Safety Foundation Conference. Lincolnshire Rural Support Network, LRSN, is celebrating 25 years, how are they doing and what's planned for the second half of the yea...
Farming Programme 12th May 2024
The Farming Programme - May 12, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA soil sensor that tells us when it's time to spray. A look ahead to the Pig & Poultry Fair and Louth Lions charity Tractor Run. NFU Deputy-President, David Exwood, is our guest to review the latest Farmer Confidence Survey. Are things really that bad? What's to be done? Plus crop, livestock ...
Farming Programme 5th May 2024
The Farming Programme - May 05, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTenant farmers: a year on from the Rock Report - what's changed? How was the sugar beet campaign for you? Lincolnshire Young Farmers - on the move and rallying soon Crop, livestock and grain market reports, the week's farming news, timely agronomy advice THE WEEK IN AGRICULTURE
Farming Programme 28th April 2024
The Farming Programme - April 28, 2024 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNottinghamshire County Show preview A new public education campaign to stamp out livestock worrying A farmer who's cycling over 1,000 miles for a farming charity, using an interesting route! Crop and market reports, agronomy advice and the week's farming news.
Farming Programme 21st April 2024
The Farming Programme - April 21, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLooking ahead to Beef Expo 2024 and Open Farm Sunday. Considering hydrogen power - the next big thing for agricultural machinery? Crop, livestock and grain market reports. Important and timely agronomy advice. Plus the week's farming news and weather.
Farming Programme 14th April 2024
The Farming Programme - April 14, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHelp for flooded farmers - but is it fit for purpose? It's many people's favourite Sunday lunch, is it yours? Great British Beef Week launches on St George's Day An important contractors' survey launches Important agronomy advice, crop and market reports, the week's faming news and weather T...
Farming Programme 7th April 2024
The Farming Programme - April 07, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhich Lincolnshire farmer will we be cheering on at next week's Manchester Marathon and why? BYDV, Septoria and Sclerotinia - all on the way, but what can you do about it? That and more timely agronomy advice. Why thousands of families will be at Lincolnshire Showground next Sunday? Plus the ...
Farming Programme 31st March 2024
The Farming Programme - March 31, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFarms still under water 6 months on, what's being done? How is lambing going, how are the crops and markets doing, what's the weather for the week ahead and what's in the news? New urea restrictions come into force tomorrow - detail and more timely agronomy advice from crop doctor Sean Sparlin...
Farming Programme 24th March 2024
The Farming Programme - March 24, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRural crime and organised crime. Changes at Louth Livestock Market. A new partnership between Openfield and FCN The aphids are arriving early and in big numbers this year - what's to be done? Important agronomy advice from Sean Sparling. The markets, weather and the week's farming news. TH...
Farming Programme 17th March 2024
The Farming Programme - March 17, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShould 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 val...
Farming Programme 10th March 2024
The Farming Programme - March 10, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLots 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 agricult...
Farming Programme 3rd March 2024
The Farming Programme - March 03, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA 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 success...
Farming Programme 25th February 2024
The Farming Programme - February 25, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat'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 beetl...
Farming Programme 18th February 2024
The Farming Programme - February 18, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnother 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 farmi...
Farming Programme 11th February 2024
The Farming Programme - February 11, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHear 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 cr...
Farming Programme 4th February 2024
The Farming Programme - February 04, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWill 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.
Farming Programme 28th January 2024
The Farming Programme - January 28, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe'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 w...
Farming Programme 21st January 2024
The Farming Programme - January 21, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLots 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.
Farming Programme 14th January 2024
The Farming Programme - January 14, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAll 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.
Farming Programme 7th January 2024
The Farming Programme - January 07, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingReports from the Oxford Farming Conference; celebrating some big agricultural anniversaries in 2024; details of a new sustainable farming scholarship; a social group for women in ag; plus the livestock & grain markets, farming news and weather for the week ahead.
Farming Programme 31st December 2023
The Farming Programme - December 31, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingContinuing our look back at 2023 in agriculture and crystal ball gazing at 2024. This week: crops and the weather, steel, the markets and rural crime. Plus Lincolnshire Rural Support Network and the Tenant Farmers Association join Steve Orchard. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Farming Programme 24th December 2023
The Farming Programme - December 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLooking back at the year and ahead to 2024 with industry leaders, local and national - joined by the NFU, CLA, Pick Ups For Peace, Young Farmers. First of two hour-long specials, the second on New Year's Eve. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Farming Programme 17th December 2023
The Farming Programme - December 17, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDe-mystifying carbon and carbon credits and looking forward to the Oxford Farming Conference. Plus agronomy advice, the markets, weather and week's farming news.
Farming Programme 10th December 2023
The Farming Programme - December 10, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA new Green Tractor scheme - no it's not the old one changing colour! We'll hear about one of the best Lincolnshire Christmas sights and open up a whole new can of (Lincolnshire) beans. Plus the week's news, weather and market reviews and some important agronomy advice.
Farming Programme 3rd December 2023
The Farming Programme - December 03, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe're reporting from Croptec, looking at a new British-built, methane-powered tractor. Plus agronomy advice, the markets weather and the week's farming news.
Farming Programme 26th November 2023
The Farming Programme - November 26, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNew grant funding available and what's at this week's Croptec? News from British Sugar, the Chancellor's Autumn Statement - how does it affect farmers? News, weather, markets and agronomy advice.
Farming Programme 19th November 2023
The Farming Programme - November 19, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBritish Sugar reply to their critics. Rural tourism - a diversification opportunity? Christmas turkeys, agronomy, the markets, weather and the week's farming news.
Farming Programme 12th November 2023
The Farming Programme - November 12, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingExciting new kit and tech showcased at last week's Midlands Machinery Show, plus a chat with NFU Deputy President Tom Bradshaw, who was there. A look ahead to this week's Farm Business Innovation show at the NEC. Sugar, agronomy, crops, markets, weather and the week's farming news. Plus the laun...
Farming Programme 5th November 2023
The Farming Programme - November 05, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe week in agriculture including new crop sensing tech, a look ahead to the Midlands Machinery Show and Farmhouse Breakfast Week. Plus a look at the crops, the markets, the weather and the week's farming news, plus some important and timely agronomy advice.
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