• Episode 30 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Jan 25 2026

    Reporting on more shiny new kit launched at LAMMA.


    It's not too early to be thinking about LEAF Open Farm Sunday.


    Details of a conference in Peterborough this week: Soya to Sustainability.


    And crop doctor, Sean Sparling is back with some agronomy advice and talking office software for farmers.



    Plus our weekly crop, livestock and grain market reports.


    The week in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.


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    41 mins
  • Episode 29 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Jan 18 2026

    We look at some new kit for livestock farmers, on display at LAMMA.


    Matt Riddington summarises the government's new Animal Welfare Strategy and the recent Baroness Batters Farming Profitability Review.


    Abi Saunders from Masons Rural considers the Defra Secretary's announcements at the Oxford Farming Conference.


    How did the Louth Christmas Charity Tractor Run do?



    Plus our weekly look at the livestock and grain markets.


    The week in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.


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    34 mins
  • Episode 28 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Jan 11 2026

    This week we visit a Holbeach firm turning food waste into fertiliser (and other good stuff).


    We conclude our look back at 2025 in agriculture and share the plans of two Lincolnshire farmers who both had mixed years, on and off the farm.


    Plus our weekly look at the livestock and grain markets.



    The week in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.


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    36 mins
  • Episode 27 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Jan 4 2026

    Part two of our look back at the year just ended and plans for 2026. This week we're joined by Beth Appleyard from Lincolnshire Young Farmers, Cath Crowther, Regional Director at the CLA, Abi Saunders from Masons Rural, Ed Middleton at Louth Market and Head of Charity at Lincolnshire Rural Support Network, Amy Thomas.


    The year in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.


    And there's a report from last Monday's Louth Livestock Market, which carries on as normal through the festive season.


    FROM ALL OF US AT THE FARMING SHOW AND LINCS SOUND, VERY BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR!


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    33 mins
  • Episode 26 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Dec 28 2025

    This week we take a look back at 2025 in agriculture and do some crystal ball gazing into 2026 with regular contributors...


    • Crop doctor Sean Sparling
    • Jo Webb from Addington Fund
    • Openfield's Freya Butler
    • Lincolnshire Chair of the NFU, Henry Moreton
    • and Charlotte Powell, Chief Exec at Lincolnshire Showground.


    The year in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.


    And there's a report from last Monday's Louth Livestock Market, which carries on as normal through the festive season.


    FROM ALL OF US AT THE FARMING SHOW, HOPE YOU HAD A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR!


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    36 mins
  • Episode 25 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Dec 21 2025

    A look ahead to LAMMA and the Oxford Farming Conference, both coming up just after Christmas.


    An update on the family farm tax situation - what can farmers do to keep up the pressure?


    Details of a project led by a Lincolnshire firm to aid Ukraine's energy needs.


    Plus our weekly look at the livestock and grain markets. The week in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.



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    42 mins
  • Episode 24 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Dec 14 2025

    This week...

    We hear about the most northerly olive crop in the world, producing olive oil, here in Lincolnshire.

    Could you be the next soil farmer of the year?

    Two festive farmer events taking place next Sunday.

    What to do with slugs and grain store pests.


    Plus our weekly look at the livestock and grain markets. The week in agriculture, with Steve Orchard.



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    45 mins
  • Episode 23 - The Farming Show with Steve Orchard
    Dec 7 2025

    This week we focus on farm safety with the Farm Safety Foundation, Yellow Wellies, the National Association of Agricultural Contractors and one Lincolnshire farmer who lost almost everything in a farm accident - could it have been prevented?



    Plus our weekly look at the livestock and grain markets, some timely agronomy advice from Sean Sparling and a sugar beet update.



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    43 mins