Meet the Farmers

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Ben speaks to West Sussex flower farmer and alstroemeria specialist Ben Cross, alongside the week's farming news.

Ben meets Buckinghamshire mixed farmer Richard Heady who has become well known on social media for his videos about life and work on his farm on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.

Ben speaks to broadcaster, journalist and BBC Countryfile presenter Sean Fletcher. Sean was born in New York, raised in Essex and has lived in Wales and London. He is a prominent mental health campaigner, especially in the light of his son's OCD.

Fred Price farms pigs and arable crops in Somerset. He turned away from his conventional model a few years ago towards a regenerative holistic approach to farm management.

Ben meets shepherd and Chair of Herefordshire Young Farmers, Ernie Richards who lives and works in Powys.

Ben speaks to food and farming journalist and editor at Eat Farm Now, Jez Fredenburgh. Episode also includes some weekly farming news stories.

In this week's feature Ben speaks to chartered surveyor and rural commentator Rob Yorke who lives in the Black Mountains of South Wales. The conversation ranges from the agriculture bill to shooting and the proposed natural history GCSE to fishing and countryside communications.

Ben speaks to the current Chair of the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs, Dewi Parry. What does lockdown mean for Young Farmers?

8th June 2020. Ben speaks to current BBC newsreader and former sheep farmer Gareth Barlow.

Ben speaks to two East Anglian entrepreneurs - Sam Steggles in Norfolk and Andy Gage in Essex about their businesses and how they have been impacted by COVID and the lockdown.

Emily Norton, Head of Rural Research at Savills comes on the show to talk about the Agriculture Bill. Then, in Farmer Focus Ben speaks to Wave Crookes from Seagrown about seaweed farming off the Yorkshire coast.

Ben speaks to Norfolk farmer and former EuroSport presenter Jeremy Buxton in this week's Farmer Focus.

Ben speaks to Yorkshire farmer Andrew Wilson in this week's 'Farmer Focus' and also to Nicola Palfrey who is a Rural Surveyor and member of the NFYFC Agri Committee.

Ben speaks to Robin Milton, an Exmoor farmer who is also the Chair of the Exmoor National Park Authority and a former Chair of the NFU's Uplands Forum. Listen also for news and views and of course this week's 'Guess the Crop'.

Discover more about How Now Dairy here - https://www.hownowdairy.co.uk/ Listen to the full interview with Oliver on YouTube. 

As we go into the next full week of lockdown here's another episode of the new format of the show to raise spirits. As well as looking at the week's farming news Ben speaks to Suffolk farm manager Matthew Hawthorne from the Euston Estate.

It's the first episode of the new format of the podcast and Ben speaks to three previous guests from the show including Anna Bryant, Will Evans and Ally Hunter-Blair. Plus, play new game 'Guess the Crop'!

A sneak peak into the new show format...including the new music

Ben has a message about the future of the show.

Meet the Farmers specials look at a farming issue or subject in more depth and for this mini-series we are exploring potential changes in the dairy sector over the next few years from environmental policy to competition from plant based alternatives. In this final episode of the mini series which comes out throughout this week Ben speaks to vegan activist and political lead at Animal Rebellion, Ke...

Meet the Farmers specials look at a farming issue or subject in more depth and for this mini-series we are exploring potential changes in the dairy sector over the next few years from environmental policy to competition from plant based alternatives. In this third episode of the mini series which comes out throughout this week Ben speaks to dairy consultant and animal scientist Dr Jude Capper at t...

Meet the Farmers specials look at a farming issue or subject in more depth and for this mini series we are exploring potential changes in the dairy sector over the next few years from environmental policy to competition from plant based alternatives. In this second episode of the mini series which comes out throughout this week Ben speaks to dairy consultant John Allen. 

oday's guest Matt Swain is an expert in managing change and change is certainly something that the dairy sector has faced in the past and faces again today with numerous challenges and opportunities ahead. In this mini series we talk about the subject of change in relation to dairy, from environmental policy to plant based alternative products. This episode in particular introduces the subject of...

Robin Asquith is a farmer from Yorkshire. He's the Care Farm Manager for the Camphill Village Trust, was a 2016 Nuffield Scholar and in 2017 was named a Farmers Weekly Rising Star. He's also an all round great guy who is easy to get along with and that was evident when I went to meet him up in Yorkshire on a particularly windy day (although I was told it was pretty typical for the area). Robin sit...