Meet the Farmers

Ben joins forces with the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission again to link different voices in food and farming. This time he's joined by nutritionist Barbara Bray MBE, chef Tom Hunt and farmer George Young to discuss 'the dietary shift'.

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Ben is joined by LEAF's CEO Caroline Drummond, the Country Trust's CEO Jill Attenborough, Farms for City Children's CEO Vanessa Fox and Farmer and founder of Farmer Time (and seasoned guest of the show) Tom Martin to discuss the impact of lockdown and Covid on food, farming and countryside education and engagement.

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Ben meets dairy farmer Abi Reader MBE and they talk about the dairy sector, tb, Cows on Tour and much more.

This is the first podcast in a series of three from Kuhn Farm Machinery UK, and is presented and produced by Ben Eagle for The National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs. It features Sian Pritchard, John Lovell and Kate Hughes. In this podcast, members of the Kuhn team introduce the company and share advice on career development.

Ben meets Suffolk farmer Graham Denny who has ringed over 40,000 birds on his farm. Graham has also taken part in the only ELMs arable trial since 2017.

Ben meets Berkshire based estate manager David Hill who also founded the Online Agricultural Show in 2020.

Ben meets Yorkshire arable farmer Richard Bramley.

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This week Ben speaks to Navaratnam Partheeban about his vet career, about diversity in veterinary and agriculture and about his Nuffield scholarship.

Ben discusses food and drinks branding with Managing Director of Brand Relations Richard Horwell.

This week Ben meets Wiltshire based mixed farmer (dairy, arable, beef), David Butler, and learns about how he keeps his business sustainable through a multi-enterprise approach.

Ben speaks to Sue Pritchard, CEO at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and Becky Speight, CEO at the RSPB about the FFCC's new report: 'Farming for Change'.

Ben meets West Sussex dairy farmer Dan Burdett who recently did his Nuffield scholarship on 'Increasing productivity through increasing diversity on UK dairy farms'. Dan worked away from the farm in London for several years and travelled the world before joining the family business.

Ben is joined by a panel of guests including Essex farmer George Young, founder of Tried and Supplied Domini Hogg and Georgia farmer Will Harris to discuss the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2021. Ben also chats to ORFC's Programme Director Fran Price and Vijay Kumar, who is the advisor to the government of Andhra Pradesh in India for Agriculture & Cooperation, and is in charge of implementation o...

In the first episode of 2021 we focus on this year's Oxford Farming Conference and Ben speaks to this year's Conference Chair, Sally Williams (also a Scottish dairy farmer), and incoming Director Will Evans (also a Welsh arable and beef farmer and podcaster).

Ben is joined by Emily Norton, Guy Smith, Johann Tasker and Gareth Wyn-Jones to talk through the year's events and for the very first Meet the Farmers Big Farming Quiz of the Year. Who will triumph?

We've made it to 100 episodes and so in celebration of this Ben is joined by Tom Bland and Juliet Scott to look back through the first 99 episodes.

This podcast was produced for the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs in partnership with SAI Global. SAI Global is honoured to partner with the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC) to collaborate with a project supported by Defra on the importance of farm assurance in building a resilient future for the industry and environment. This podcast is the first in a series of mult...

Ben meets Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley. Joe is also a trustee of the Henry Plumb Foundation. He’s on the steering committee for the East of England Farming Conference. He’s the NFU branch chair for North West Leicestershire and the NFU county Vice-Chair for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire & Rutland. You might also know him as a regular columnist for Farmer’s Weekly, Farm Busi...

Ben meets Jane Craigie from Jane Craigie Marketing, a marketing, media and communications business, based in Scotland and focused on the rural sector and food and farming businesses. Jane is a Chartered Marketer with over 25 years’ experience in marketing within the agri-food sector. She is a member of the executive board of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and the council...

Ben meets first generation dairy farmer Alex Heffron who farms with his wife Sam in Pembrokeshire.

Ben meets Cambridgeshire farmer Tom Clarke and they talk about how Tom's life was turned upside down when his father died and he was launched in at the deep end, heading back to manage the family farm in the Fens. They also talk sugar, soil, nature and much more.

Alongside the week's farming news Ben meets Tom Jones, a sheep and beef farmer from Montgomerishire in mid Wales. Tom has also been a contract shepherd and shearer and is a livestock focus farmer writer for Farmers Weekly.