Practical farming intelligence with field-level context.
AHDB Food & Farming follows UK agriculture through the working details: grass growth, exports, crop conditions, livestock health, diversification, and policy pressure. It pairs light studio banter with careful explanations from farmers, analysts, vets, and AHDB voices.
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AHDB Food & Farming is a broad, working-level agriculture show focused on the details that shape UK farm businesses. It is practical first. The programme moves across livestock, dairy, arable, exports, consumer trends, disease risk, farm diversification, and environmental projects without treating any of them as abstract policy chatter. Recent episodes have looked at red meat and dairy exports, the impact of Middle East uncertainty on inputs and trade, spring drilling decisions, bluetongue risks around lambing and calving, and the changing picture for UK crop conditions after a wet winter. The show also keeps a close eye on data. Forage updates include dry matter, protein, metabolisable energy, growth ranges, and average farm cover. Planting and variety surveys are discussed as a way to understand what has actually gone into the ground and what that may mean for harvest. Fertiliser prices, soil conditions, slug pressure, and variety choice are handled as practical decisions rather than distant headlines. That gives the show a useful rhythm. A bit of banter opens the door, then the episode gets into the working reality. The conversations often feature farmers, AHDB specialists, vets, analysts, and other sector voices who can explain how a headline lands on farm. Some segments are technical. Others are human and local, such as a young pig farmer converting a horse box into a mobile farm cafe or a mixed farmer turning old potato stores into padel courts. The show is also alert to public-facing agriculture, including school education, Open Farm Sunday, British beef promotion, plant-based labelling, and shopper behaviour around meat. It does not chase drama. It asks what is changing, what the evidence says, and what producers can do with that information. The style is calm, warm, and occasionally dry. Listeners get enough context to follow unfamiliar topics without the conversation being softened into generic advice. The result is an industry podcast with a useful mix of market intelligence, field conditions, technical explanation, and farm-life texture.
Made for: For levy payers, farmers, growers, livestock producers, advisers, and food supply-chain listeners who want UK agriculture explained through data, interviews, and practical farm consequences.
What sets it apart: It combines AHDB market and technical updates with relaxed on-air conversation, so hard figures on grass, crops, disease, exports, and inputs sit alongside recognisable farm-life detail.
Our Food & Farming podcast is for levy payers and those in the food supply chain – bringing together key players in the agriculture industry to talk about the things which really matter. You’ll hear from farmers, special guests and AHDB specialists sharing their experiences and opinions. Join our conversations about technical information, data, market intelligence, exports and updates on our multimillion consumer marketing campaigns and of course, the latest news on farming issues that impact your business. The AHDB Food & Farming podcast – worth a listen.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
AHDB Food & Farming treats agriculture as a practical business beat of markets, inputs, trade, sustainability and farm level decisions.
AHDB Food & Farming works best when it treats agriculture as a business of daily decisions: markets, inputs, consumer demand, sustainability pressure and the practical tradeoffs behind them.
You want farm business news with mud on its boots and numbers in its pockets.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A plainspoken look at exports, planting, and the season ahead.
Hannah Clark and Phil Maiden steer the episode from export market talk into the more immediate question of what is being planted, with Helen Plant spelling out the annual planting and variety survey.
A practical listen on how farms explain themselves to the public, from crop pressure to Open Farm Sunday.
This episode turns on how farming is explained to the public, moving from crop and livestock pressure into education and outreach, with Open Farm Sunday and student engagement both in view.
A grounded dairy discussion, framed by timely updates and the Denmark study tour.
The episode centers on a dairy discussion built around a study tour of Denmark and the note that almost all producers supply Arla. It works best when it moves from travel report into plain industry detail, where the focus and business structure come through cleanly.
Practical spring farm talk, grounded in detail and kept human by a little banter.
The episode stays rooted in spring coverage, moving through grass-growth figures, forage quality, a food-story diversion, and a plain-English look at fungicide resistance.
A grounded food and farming listen that sticks with cost, time, and how people learn where food comes from.
This episode keeps its eye on consumer health and the familiar drag of cost and time before turning to Farmer Time, the charity that links farmers and classes through video calls across the farming year. That shift gives the conversation a clear center.
COP30, pig-tech, and farm realities stay linked in an episode with a live-event feel.
This AHDB staff conference episode moves from COP30 and farmer buy-in into the ordinary pressures of day-to-day farming, then shifts again into virtual reality in pig abattoirs and the question of reputation.
Farm business talk with coffee-shop honesty.
Concrete starts things off.
After a subscription note, it opens with honeymoon horses.
98% supply Arla.
This episode of The Ag Show discusses rainwater harvesting on farms, AHDB engagement, and plant-based food labelling, featuring an environmental project in Cumbria.
Spring moves fast.
This episode discusses the impact of the bluetongue virus on lambing and calving, featuring a veterinary expert to explain the risks and effects on livestock.
This episode of The Ag Show features a young pig farmer who converted a horse trailer into a mobile farm café and discusses UK dairy and red meat export records.
This episode explores how a farmer has repurposed an old potato store into popular padel courts and provides expert advice on spring drilling techniques for agriculture.
This episode discusses wool products like ropes and fabrics with a focus on sustainability and traceability in UK agriculture, along with updates on British pork and beef markets.
This episode discusses dairy sector climate resilience, GLP-1 drugs, pork market outlook, and mental health, featuring insights from a Nuffield scholar on adapting to unpredictable weather.
This episode explores international farming practices through an interview with Eleanor Gilbert, who harvested 130,000 acres in the U.S.
This episode discusses succession planning in farming, featuring a farmer's experience of handing over the family farm to their son.
This episode discusses the Let's Eat Balance campaign promoting British meat and dairy, and features farewells to a departing host.
This episode of The Ag Show features hosts discussing a running challenge for charity and introduces the show's focus on farming industry topics.
The Christmas tree chat is brief.
This episode features a quiz where the presenters become contestants answering 25 questions across three rounds focused on food and farming in 2025, Christmas, and barnyard banter.
A podcast for UK farmers and food industry professionals discussing agricultural news, market trends, and practical advice, with a festive episode focusing on mental health.
This episode discusses milk price drops and agricultural market updates with industry analysts.
The setting shifts the tone right away.
This episode covers a city meat lecture on livestock's future and a farmer's mishap with escaped cattle, blending industry debate with personal anecdotes.
This episode of The Ag Show discusses gap years in agriculture, featuring guests who share their experiences working abroad.
This episode introduces The Ag Show, a new weekly farming podcast from AHDB, with a humorous anecdote about sausage planting and wedding weather.
This episode announces the retirement of the Food & Farming podcast and introduces a new weekly show called The Ag Show, featuring hosts who will discuss farming topics with insights and fun.
This episode features a visit to a monitor farm in Northumberland, discussing the farm's participation in AHDB programs and business improvements.
This episode visits Glover's Farm in Norfolk, where tenant farmer David Cross discusses improving soil health and business resilience through herbal lays, mob grazing, and reduced inputs.
This episode introduces a new series visiting AHDB Monitor Farms, starting with a visit to an organic livestock farm in Devon.
This episode introduces a new podcast series and features an interview with a Northumberland organic beef farm partnership discussing their business and the Roots to Resilience programme.
The episode announces the retirement of two podcasts and introduces a new weekly show, then begins an interview with AHDB's new chair about agriculture economics.
This episode introduces a new podcast called The Ag Show and discusses challenges and changes in the agriculture industry with AHDB's CEO.
This episode discusses AHDB's educational programs, including the Ingredients into Schools initiative, aimed at teaching children about food origins and cooking.
This episode introduces the new weekly podcast 'Agonomics with David and Jack', which focuses on making agricultural economics more accessible and understandable.
An interview with Professor Jason Rowntree on balancing food production with ecosystem health through regenerative agriculture.
This episode discusses new regulatory guidance for outdoor pig producers with guests from the Environment Agency.
An interview with MP Sir Robert Goodwill about agricultural policy and the work of the EFRA Select Committee.