Farming Today is a radio programme about food, farming, and the countryside broadcast onBBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

It is broadcast each weekday morning (having been recorded the day before) from 5.45 to 5.58, and a longer programme (Farming Today This Week) is broadcast on Saturdays between 6.30 and 6.55. Around one million people listen to the programme.

Farming Today began life on 20 September 1960 as a weekly 15-minute programme subtitledA review of current affairs in agriculture at home and abroad and broadcast at 19.15 on Tuesdays as part of the BBC's Third Network's sequence of educational broadcasting known as Network Three. From 3 October 1961 the programme's start time was moved to 19.00, and from 7 January 1964 it changed again, to 19.45.

The run of weekly programmes on Network Three came to an end on 25 August 1964 and from 31 AugustFarming Today (now subtitledNews, market trends, and current topics) moved to a 6.35–6.50 slot on Monday to Saturday mornings on theBBC Home Service (later to becomeBBC Radio 4 in 1967), where it replaced the 10-minuteFarm Bulletin which had been broadcast on that network at 6.40 on six mornings a week since 10 July 1962.

Between 1964 and today, with the lengthening of the Home Service / Radio 4 broadcast day, the start time of the weekday programme (which has varied between 13 and 20 minutes in length) has gradually shifted earlier, and now stands at 5.45.^[1]

The programme explores matters of current concern tofarmers,fishermen, and others with an interest incountryside issues.

Farmers, environmentalists, politicians, theSoil Association, andNational Farmers Union leaders are amongst those regularly interviewed for the programme.

Recent topics have included

• Farming and Brexit
• Badger culling
• TheEUCommon Agricultural Policy
• The EUCommon Fisheries Policy
• Foot-and-mouth disease
• GM food and crops (biotechnology)
• Pesticides
• Organic farming
• Rural social issues e.g. housing, broadband, shops, schools, churches

The programme's main presenters areAnna Hill andCharlotte Smith.Caz Graham also presents occasionally.

• Robin Hicks - from 1968 to 1977, when the programme was live and transmitted from London.^[2] Later the programme team moved to Birmingham and produced a recorded edition with presentersMiriam O'Reilly and Mark Holdstock.

• Countryfile, onBBC One
• Agriculture in the United Kingdom

• BBC Radio 4 website
• Farming Today podcasts

• Farmers Weekly November 2010

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