The Farmers Guardian Podcast
The Farmers Guardian podcast brings you real farmer stories, the latest news and discussion about all the issues affecting the farming community.
Listen on the go as the Farmers Guardian team talk through the latest issues across the dairy, livestock and arable sectors affecting your farming business, featuring special guests who share their personal experiences.
The Farmers Guardian Podcast
Latest Episodes
China’s pork power: trade, disease and what it means for the UK
China is the world’s biggest pork producer and consumer — but what does that mean for UK pig farmers?In this week’s Farmers Guardian podcast, Katie Fallon hears from industry experts at the World Pork Conference in Qingdao, China to und...
Prime Minister faces farming questions as Parliament returns and Reform unveils farming policy
Actions speak louder than words. Despite new PM Andy Burnham telling MPs he will focus on farming, and Reform members pledging to ‘back farmers to the hilt’, deputy editor Alex Black, head of news and business Jane Thynne and chief reporter Rac...
“You think it's never going to happen to somebody you know”: The Mental Health Crisis in Farming | For Flock’s Sake Ep6
Sam Stables and Louise Layton join us for an honest conversation about the tougher side of farming. Why in some cases, we are still not always very good at talking about mental health, the importance of opening up when things get difficult, and...
Half the land, 80% of the yield: does relay cropping really stack up? | The Farmers Guardian Arable Podcast
What if you could grow a second crop on half the area and still produce 80% of the yield of a conventional crop? That is the intriguing result from arable farmer Ben Adams’ first year of his relay cropping trial, where winter barley grown on ju...
The bluetongue surge: Immediate action now and lessons for the future
Deputy editor Alex Black and chief reporter Rachael Brown sit down with farmers and NFU representatives Clare Wise and Ian Harvey, as well as NFU Scotland vice president Robert Neill to discuss the latest situation in the rise in Bluetongue acr...