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BBC Radio York look at issues affecting farming and the North Yorkshire countryside.
Yorkshire Farming Podcast
English, Sciences, 1 season, 55 episodes, 16 hours, 24 minutes
Yorkshire Farming Podcast
English, Sciences, 1 season, 55 episodes, 16 hours, 24 minutes
Yorkshire Farming - Two Years In Review
In the last Yorkshire Farming programme, Gareth Barlow opens up the archives.
4/9/2017 • 15 minutes, 42 seconds
Yorkshire Farming Two Years In Review
Yorkshire Farming is coming to an end, in this penultimate programme we open the archives.
4/2/2017 • 14 minutes, 34 seconds
Yorkshire Wolds, GM Crops Debate, Community Vegetables
Princess Anne shares her thoughts on GM crops and community allotments start in Leeds.
3/26/2017 • 14 minutes, 3 seconds
Biosecurity 17 Conference, Glyphosate, Milk Sales
FERA, The Food and Environment Research Agency in York hosted #Biosecuriyt17 Conference.
3/19/2017 • 15 minutes, 7 seconds
Environmental Payments, Ancient Oaks, International Women's Day
A new environmental payment scheme for farmers is being piloted in the Yorkshire Dales.
3/12/2017 • 14 minutes, 29 seconds
Yorkshire Cheese, Rural GPs, Bacon
Gareth Barlow visits an multi-award winning cheese producer and looks at food shortages.
3/5/2017 • 14 minutes, 10 seconds
Bioethanol, Free Range Eggs, Tree Planting
Can natural flood management protect Yorkshire from floods? Plus petrol power from plants.
2/26/2017 • 15 minutes, 46 seconds
Pennine Beer, Rural Care, Rabbits
The search is on for a beer to represent the Pennine Way, the UK's oldest National Trail.
2/19/2017 • 13 minutes, 8 seconds
Squirrel Control, Bird Flu, Wild Boar
Could contraceptives for grey squirrels help protect North Yorkshire's reds?
2/12/2017 • 17 minutes, 20 seconds
Pocklington Canal, Agri Investment, Farmland Birds
Pocklington Canal is getting a facelift and farmer are being encouraged to count birds.
2/5/2017 • 10 minutes, 59 seconds
Lobster and Crab Fisheries, RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch
Yorkshire's lobster and crab fisheries are the largest in Europe and there's great demand.
1/29/2017 • 10 minutes
Wensleydale Cheese, Butterfly Conservation, Hare Coursing
Journey to the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to visit the Wensleydale Creamery.
1/22/2017 • 12 minutes, 47 seconds
Cattle Special, Bird Flu, Plant Research
Happy dairy farmers, cattle being fed apple cider vinegar, black top milk and more!
1/15/2017 • 19 minutes, 55 seconds
2017 - The Future For Farming
Gareth Barlow explores the future for farming in 2017, post-Brexit and beyond.
1/8/2017 • 18 minutes, 5 seconds
Rare Insects, Woodland Creatures, Pioneering Research
As a new year begins, Gareth Barlow reviews the rural stories from autumn 2016.
1/1/2017 • 16 minutes, 26 seconds
Flooding, Calves, Intelligent Growing
Greater cooperation is being urged to tackle future flooding, what's the role of farmers?
12/18/2016 • 15 minutes, 43 seconds
Milkmen, Farming Carols, Bird Flu
Gareth Barlow got up with the lark to go on the delivery round with one of York's milkmen.
12/11/2016 • 17 minutes, 30 seconds
Farmer Health Checks, Turkey Rearing, Hay Auction
Farmers in North Yorkshire get a winter MOT, plus the Christmas roast - is it ready yet?
12/4/2016 • 18 minutes, 5 seconds
Superfood For Bees, Yorkshire Dales Flowers
Research in North Yorkshire is looking at how bees can be given an energy boost.
11/27/2016 • 16 minutes, 39 seconds
Dormice Protection, Farming Fit, Improving Plants
Gareth Barlow charts the work being done in the Yorkshire Dales to conserve dormice.
11/20/2016 • 19 minutes, 52 seconds
Calf Rearing, Fungicide Development, Leaf Science
Gareth Barlow charts the development of a farmland spray and looks at dairy calf costs.
11/13/2016 • 17 minutes, 43 seconds
Venison Farming, High Street Butchers, Tristan da Cunha
Consumer demand for venison is booming and meet York's newest butchers.
11/6/2016 • 17 minutes, 19 seconds
Agricultural Research Special
Gareth Barlow meets the scientists and researchers looking at the future for farming.
10/30/2016 • 37 minutes, 18 seconds
Livestock Extravaganza: Yorkshire's Animal World
Explore a county of grass fields, livestock markets and industry-leading farms.
10/23/2016 • 15 minutes, 58 seconds
Ice Cream Factory, Anaerobic Digestion, Food Facts
We go behind the scenes of the world's second largest ice cream factory.
10/16/2016 • 15 minutes, 36 seconds
Metaldehyde, Rural Careers, Fish Accents
How can slug poison be kept out of watercourses and do fish still understand each other?
10/9/2016 • 14 minutes, 52 seconds
Badger Faced Sheep, Big Farmland Bird Count
The Badger Faced Sheep Society celebrates its fortieth year, Yorkshire wine, birds & more.
10/2/2016 • 19 minutes, 39 seconds
Countryside Stewardship, Yorkshire Dales, Giant Veg
Gareth Barlow explores how Yorkshire's iconic landscapes are environmentally managed.
9/25/2016 • 9 minutes, 45 seconds
Mega Sheep Sale, Red Tractor Week, Forty Thousand Bees
Gareth Barlow speaks with Countryfile's Adam Henson and has mild panic with a lot of bees!
9/18/2016 • 17 minutes, 52 seconds
Celebrating Summer in North Yorkshire
The Yorkshire Farming team stave off the onset of Autumn with a look back at summer!
9/11/2016 • 17 minutes, 52 seconds
Malton Food Festival, Howardian Hills, Shetland Sheep
Meet the North Yorkshire headmaster with a tiny slice of Scotland just north of York.
9/4/2016 • 21 minutes, 21 seconds
Tansy Beetles, Yorkshire Arboretum, Lamb Week
There's a UK first for the Yorkshire Arboretum and on the hunt for York's Tansy Beetles.
8/28/2016 • 17 minutes, 11 seconds
Water Voles, Yorkshire Wine, School Growing
Gareth Barlow checks on the quality of this year's wine harvest in Yorkshire.
8/21/2016 • 15 minutes, 55 seconds
Combine Harvesters, Glorious Twelfth, Emerald Ash Borer
The grouse shooting debate and what does it take to drive a £300,000 combine harvester?
8/14/2016 • 22 minutes, 27 seconds
Pea Harvest, Rural Crime, Poultry Farming
Yorkshire's pea farmers only have 150 minutes to get peas from field to frozen.
8/7/2016 • 22 minutes, 27 seconds
Ryedale Show, National Living Wage, Yorkshire Dales
Exploring the impact of the National Living Wage on fruit and vegetable growers.
7/31/2016 • 15 minutes, 25 seconds
Worms, Butterflies, Agricultural Research
Scientists from York, Leeds & Sheffield Universities' rural research in North Yorkshire.
7/24/2016 • 15 minutes, 21 seconds
Great Yorkshire Show 2016, Antony Worrall Thompson
Looking back at England's largest agricultural show.
7/17/2016 • 18 minutes, 16 seconds
Pollinators, Great Yorkshire Show, Farm Safety
Join Gareth Barlow for a walk through a wildflower meadow and robots milking cows
7/10/2016 • 15 minutes
Milk, Farming and Brexit
Possibly the shortest milk miles in the UK and what will Brexit mean for North Yorkshire?
7/3/2016 • 20 minutes, 50 seconds
Strawberries and Cream, BBQs, Grasslands
Strawberries with cream, sugar or balsamic vinegar? We'll let you decide!
6/26/2016 • 13 minutes, 52 seconds
Sheepdog Trials, Yorkshire Dales, Education
Meet the duo vying for the top spot at this year's English National Sheepdog Trials.
6/19/2016 • 22 minutes, 27 seconds
Sheep Shearing, Grasslands, Rural Planning
Join the trainee sheep-shearers of today, as they learn how to clip their first sheep.
6/12/2016 • 24 minutes, 42 seconds
Dales Festival of Food and Drink, Eighteen Months of Dairy
Gareth Barlow revisits the first dairy farm featured on the Yorkshire Farming programme.
6/5/2016 • 16 minutes, 2 seconds
School Growing, Sandwiches, Fly Tipping
To celebrate British Sandwich Week, Gareth Barlow went on the hunt for a superior sarnie!
5/15/2016 • 18 minutes, 25 seconds
Foraging, Stalking Deer, Food Awards
Urban parks and city centres are bursting with food, if you know what to look for.
5/8/2016 • 20 minutes, 38 seconds
Planting Trees in the Yorkshire Dales, Great British Beef Week
Gareth Barlow joins the National Trust at Malham Tarn and beef farmers go to town.
5/1/2016 • 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Capability Brown, Medicating Pigs, Farming Apps
Gareth Barlow discovers how country estates and farmland were designed to work together.
4/24/2016 • 23 minutes, 5 seconds
Fishing In The Yorkshire Dales
Meet the North Yorkshire dairy farmer making more money from methane than milk.
4/17/2016 • 17 minutes, 29 seconds
Brewing Tea, Mental Health & Food Awards
Meet the North Yorkshire group, Men in Sheds, who are helping to battle rural isolation.
4/10/2016 • 24 minutes, 33 seconds
Yorkshire's BBC Food and Farming Award Finalists (03/04/2016)
The Yorkshire businesses in the running for an award and learn to make the perfect coffee.
4/3/2016 • 19 minutes, 56 seconds
Grading British Wool and Celebrating Farndale's Daffodils (27/03/2016)
Gareth Barlow wanders through the daffodil walk & joins the British Wool Marketing Board.
3/27/2016 • 26 minutes
FareShare Yorkshire (20/03/2016)
Meet the charity saving fresh food from landfill and feeding people instead.
3/20/2016 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Lambing Live, English Wine & Yorkshire Butter (13/03/2016)
There's a new arrival on the programme and Gareth Barlow discovers Yorkshire butter.
3/13/2016 • 28 minutes, 56 seconds
Brewing Beer, Making Pasta, Upland Farms (06/03/2016)
Meet the North Yorkshire food producers pushing boundaries and the farm protecting water.
3/6/2016 • 21 minutes, 25 seconds