ChewintheCud Podcast

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Sarah Bolt, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Neil Greggor, Solutions Manager at Viking Genetics UK. As Neil's background is familiar to our regular listeners he gives us a brief overview of his career before we move to our main topic of this podcast. Using data to make your breeding decisions. Neil discusses how it doesn't matter y...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Neil Groom, General Manager at Grainseed. Like usual we start with a brief introduction from Neil about how he started in the industry to get to where he is today. Then we move on to today's topic and start with a brief overview of the trials currently being run at Wiltshire College & U...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Sarah Bolt & Becky Miles, two of the co-founders of Women in Dairy. With Sarah being a returning guest we move straight on to Becky and ask her about her background, and how she got to the multiple job titles she has today! We then move on to discuss the ten years that "Women in Dairy&q...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Andrew Harrison, Technical Sales Manager, from I'Anson Brothers Ltd in Yorkshire. As usual we start by asking Andrew about his background, from a farm in Lancashire to where he is now with I'Anson Brothers. We then discuss the new feed mill that I'Anson Brothers are due to open ab...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Dr Jo Matthews, Technical Trials Manager, and Harley Brown-Keech, Area Sales Manager, from Germinal GB Limited at their Germinal Horizon site in Wiltshire. Initially we talk about the background of both our guests, and then briefly about the history of Germinal. We then talk to Jo & Harley a...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Neil Christensen, partner in Steanbow Farms Ltd, at Pilton in Somerset. We talk to Neil about the different aspects of the farm and how the management of the business is split with his brother, with Neil looking after all the Livestock and Mike looking after all the Operations (all the field wor...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Mike Jones, Dairy Technical Manager from UK Agri-Tech Centre, based at the South West Dairy Development Centre (SWDDC) near Shepton Mallet in Somerset.  As always we start with an introduction to Mike and his background, from starting his career on a dairy farm, managing herds to working with te...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Mike Jones, Dairy Technical Manager from UK Agri-Tech Centre, based at the South West Dairy Development Centre (SWDDC) near Shepton Mallet in Somerset.  With this we had so much great information recorded that rather than one long episode we decided to split the episode into two parts, so welcom...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Sean O'Toole, Regional Sales Manager, North UK & Europe for Silostop Agri. As always we start with an introduction to Sean and his background, from a farm in Lincolnshire he went to college. Then upon completion of his course started in the ruminants feed industry, before progressing ov...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined (again) by Andrew Clune, Business Development Manager, Nitrogen Solutions from BASF. A quick rerun over Andrew's background before we talk about today's subject Urease Inhibitors & Protected Urea. We discuss the incoming requirements for all farmers to use a protected urea from 1st Ap...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Farmer's Weekly Dairy Farmer of the Year 2017, Neville Loder. Like usual we talk about Neville's background growing up on the family dairy farm, before travelling to various countries & continents around the world to experience farming there. Then upon his return home he partnered...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Teresa Dent, Chief Executive GWCT (Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) & board member EFG (Environmental Farmers Group) , and Peter Shallcross, a local farmer member EFG & Chairman Nadder Valley Cluster. Like usual we start with a little bit about the about the background of our spea...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by James Geraghty, dairy farmer and former director QDO (Queensland Dairy Organisation), later eastAUSmilk, retiring from the position after 22 years at the end of 2022. He also happened to be Andrew's neighbour during his six years dairying in FNQ (Far North Queensland). Big thanks to James G...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Andy Dodd, Farm Consultant from FCG (The Farm Consultancy Group), and Andy & Lynda Eadon from Len's Light, a legacy for Len Eadon, shining a light on mental health issues in the rural community and raising funds to support charities tackling these issues. Like usual we start by asking a...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Janette Mathie, Head of Field Services, and Karen Reeve, Area Manager for the South of England, from CIS (Cattle Information Services). Janette's journey starts like many looking for a part time job to work around her children going to school, and then worked her way up through the business...

Your host Andrew Jones & guest host Sarah Bolt based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Bronwen Pihlwret, Ruminant Technical Manager, QLF (Quality Liquid Feeds) Ltd. Bron talks her journey from life on a beef & arable farm, via Archaeology, to her role today with QLF. Bron then discusses sugars,  and therefore molasses, and their roles within a diet, and how the majority...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Farmer's Weekly Dairy Farmer of the Year 2022 Catherine Pickford and her herd manager Nathan Crocker. Both have their own journeys to where they are now but Catherine's starts with her returning home in 1995 with 70 Black & Whites calving AYR to today with 400 spring calving cows a...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Giles Simpson , Agronomy Team Manager, Pearce Seeds LLP as well as the current Chairman of The Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show. Giles discusses his own journey into the industry from following his father around a farm, to managing farms in his own right, to joining Pearce Seeds over twenty yea...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Dr Laura Tennant, Young Animal Feeds Technical Manager, Trouw Nutrition GB. Laura  discusses her own journey into the industry, from a beef & sheep farm near Harrogate in Yorkshire to studying for her degree in Bristol, her Masters in London, to her PhD in Nottingham before becoming the Head...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Sarah Bolt, Technical Knowledge Exchange Manager, Kingshay Farming & Conservation Ltd & Co-founder Women in Dairy. Sarah discusses her own journey into the industry, from a entirely non rural background, but already knowing at the age of four that she wanted to involved in the dairy indu...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Colin Hanson-Orr, Nutritionist, Forage Technology Ltd. Colin discusses his own journey in the industry from being a child of RAF parents, with a detour to rock star,  to being where he is now at Forage Technology before discussing the primary subject of this podcast, Silage Additives: The Good ,...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Andrew Stilwell, Crop Nutrition Technical Manager, Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd. Andrew discusses his own journey in the industry from "short trousers" to where he is now as Crop Nutrition Technical Manager before discussing the primary subject of this podcast, Grassland & Sulphur. A...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Richard Miller, Product Strategy Manager for NMR (National Milk Records). Richard discusses his own journey in the industry from farmer to Product Strategy Manager for NMR before discussing the primary subject of this podcast, Genomics: A Beginners Guide. Between the three of us we discuss the h...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Mark Partridge, Technical Manager from Duffields (South West) Ltd. Mark discusses his own journey in the industry from feed rep to now Technical Manager for Duffields (South West) Ltd before discussing the primary subject of the this podcast, Livestock: The Waste Feed Recycling Industry.   Not m...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Greg Ridout, Partner & Head of Agricultural Sales at Symonds & Sampson. Greg discusses how he accidentally became an auctioneer, after initially having plans for another profession, to where he is now in a job he loves, getting up in front of hundreds of people selling cows & kit. We...