Future Farming Resilience Podcast

David and Paul spend a few minutes reviewing season two of Just For Farmers discussing some of their highlights from the discussions they had with quite a diverse range of guests. Give it a listen and see what you missed!!

Keeley Reading is the founder of The Farming Mother CIC, a farm school in Cornwall inspired by her personal journey with her neurodiverse daughter.

Stephanie has dedicated the past decade to reducing workplace fatalities and accidents in agriculture. As manager of the Farm Safety Foundation – also known as the Yellow Wellies charity – she strives to improve attitudes and behaviours to risk-taking and poor mental health among farmers under 40 years old. Yellow Wellies What Three Words

Jules Mitchell (don't call her julie!) founder of The Mental Wealth Revolution, where you'll learn how to hack your brain and boost productivity.

Helen has 30 years of Human Resources experience, coupled with strong business acumen and multi-cultural sensitivity. Need to check this is the right HW.

Frederika Roberts is a positive psychology, positive education and character education speaker, trainer, author and press/media expert. She believes happiness to be a goal for the present, not the future. She believes that happiness is a goal everybody should pursue and can achieve https://www.happiness-speaker.co.uk/

Nigel Vardy is best known as Mr Frostbite. As well as a career of over 35 years as an engineer, Nigel is a passionate mountaineer, adventurer, motivational speaker and inspiration to many lost his nose, fingers and toes at -60C on Mt McKinley in Alaska in 1999. In this podcast he talks to David about his experiences. www.mrfrostbite.com/

Jules Morgan joined David and Paul in the first series to talk about Innovation & Sustainability. In this series he makes a welcome return to reflect on sustainable growth.

1. Rikki Arundel joins Paul and David to talk about gender, identity and tolerance in a facinating first part of this video. Rikki is an authority and leading light on the subject and not affraid to stand up for what is right. 2. James the body fix coach gives a short piece looking at single leg setp up exercises. In the final part of the video David and Paul drill down .

David and Paul are joined by Derek Arden, the UK's authority on negotiating with over thrity years experience in tough negotiating to help businesses make more money and help them to "up their game". https://www.linkedin.com/in/negotiatingexpert/ In the second part, after a short session with James Bacon a.k.a The Body Fix Coach (looks a bit like rugby training to me), Paul and David drill down in...

Or alternatively titled how to get your kitchen table back from the piles of paperwork! Doug D'Aubry is managing director of Executive Training and Consultancy in the West Midlands and gives some really useful practical advice on taking control of the admin side of your business. In the second part of the video David and Paul deep dive into safety on the farm and James the body fix coach offeres s...

S02 S03 David and Phil are joined by Andy Stone. Andy talks openly about his addictions and mental health challenges with many transferable messages on how to work and manage people to help get the best out of them and make them an important part of your team. After a short piece from James, the body fix coach David and Phil deep dive into hapiness. https://www.andy-stone.com/

The final part of the carbon mini-series hosted by NIAB's Elizabeth Stockdale. Elizabeth is in conversation with Savills Food and Farming Consultant Kieran Vallance and they are discussing practical tips to reduce the carbon footprint on farm in arable systems.

S02 E02 David and Paul are joined again by James Bacon a.k.a The Body Fix Coach who this season will be doing regular slots looking at fitness and wellbeing, and have a short discussion about the fear of change and why it is a dificult thing to deal with.

S02 E01 David and Paul are back for a second season of the Just for farmers podcast series on the Future Farming Resilience Podcast. In this first episode David and Paul are joined by global podcaster Amy Rowlinson , an expert on purpose to discuss why purpose is important and why without purpose life is a bit of a drag. Amy's podcast series, Focus on WHY , has more than 400 uplifting and inspirin...

S02 E01 The first episode of the new season of podcasts is a continuation of the carbon mini-series hosted by NIAB's Elizabeth Stockdale. Elizabeth is in conversation with Sarah Bolt, Richard Simpson and Christina Ford from Kingshay Farming & Conservation Ltd discussing practical tips to reduce the carbon footprint on farm in livestock systems.

David sets a challenge for you to consider a range of options to diversify your business by brainstorming an A to Z of ideas. Most of the ideas may be impractical and too far left-field but who knows what moment of genius it could spark.

David Clark (agricultural systems researcher at NIAB) makes a welcome return to the exploring opportunities podcast series, this time in conversation with Will Vaughan-France to discuss aspects of precision agriculture and data collection, and how this can influence and improve decision making on the farm. https://www.niab.com/research/agronomy-and-farming-systems/farming-systems

Emotional wellbeing ​ Throughout the series there have been discussions on wellbeing, mental health and personal resilience. David closes the series talking to Andrew Pain, an expert and authority on the subject. ​ Whether you are a farmer or farming family member in need of support, or an advisor working with farmers who may need help, there are many support organisations available. For more info...

Innovation & Sustainability with Jules Morgan David and Paul are in conversation with Jules Morgan. Not the actress, but former power boat racer, Queens Award winner, World record holder, entrepreneur in the engineering sector and world-renowned marine design engineer with particular interest in innovation and sustainability.

Monitoring carbon performance: Continuing the carbon mini-series, Elizabeth Stockdale is once again talking to Becky Wilson from Farm Carbon Toolkit. Telling farmers they need to reduce their impact on the environment makes for easy headlines and sound bites without a clear idea as to how. In this podcast Elizabeth and Becky discuss what you can do and how to measure it so you can show how the cha...

Mindset with Darren Harris. In this podcast David and Paul are in discussion with Darren Harris who is a milti-disciplined para-olympian, psycologist and public speaker who inspires people to overcome difficulties and adversity in business, education and their personal life.

Exploring practical tips for measuring soil carbon: As part of the carbon mini-series, Elizabeth Stockdale is talking to David Clark, agricultural systems researcher at NIAB to discuss measuring soil properties, the impact of applying organic matter to the soil and things that might effect the amount of carbon and organic matter in the soil.

Presentation skills: Part 2 There are many opportunities where you can present yourself or represent your business, whether that is to a group in the community, a formal gathering or at a trade show. In this episode, David and Paul discuss and give tips on how to make a good presentation (and we are not talking about making pretty PowerPoint slides), showing yourself to be full of confidence no ma...

Presentation skills: Part 1 There are many opportunities where you can present yourself or represent your business, whether that is to a group in the community, a formal gathering or at a trade show. In this episode, David and Paul discuss and give tips on how to make a good presentation (and we are not talking about making pretty PowerPoint slides), showing yourself to be full of confidence no ma...