R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

Tales of a Nuffield Scholar Our last tales of a Nuffield scholarship episode welcomed an extremely successful accidental businessman!  Today welcome someone who always wanted to have a business.  Heather Gorringe worked in the family business before falling in love with the process of taking a business from small to large. Various businesses under her arm she is most well known for...

Buying a farm with ‘nothing’, podcasting, AI in dairy and Nuffield!  Today’s guest and I instantly gravitated to each other when we found ourselves around the pool in Campo Grande, Brazil!  Paul Windemuller, went out to New Zealand from  the states and studied agriculture.  He then fell in love with the country even finding his partner and his first child to be born i...

Travelling the world, writing 57 books and appreciating all breeds! You may have seen me sharing RHS TV which I was lucky enough to be involved in but today’s guest has been actively involved in agricultural communication for some time… Andy Frazier has been around the sector, around the world and succeeded in so many facets of the sector! He started dressing cattle with notable success in the UK,...

Marketing, baby products and agriculture? I’ve found myself becoming more and more fascinated with marketing, especially in the rural space!  Today we welcome, Andy Venables! Any comes from a dairy farm, he loved a lot of what that involved but didn’t see a career in the sector and chose a degree in business!  He found an interest in marketing and after a go at marketing in a baby produc...

Vet nursing, diversification and saying ‘I’m a farmer’ Coming from a small farm Kim Frampton always saw animals in her future.  Now farming and arable and sheep farm in Dorset with her partner that dream amongst others have come true!  Posting to get instagram farming_in_a_wifely_manor she talks about everything on the farm! Kim is also a trained vet nurse, run an air bnb and also h...

Tales of a Nuffield Scholar Today we welcome another Nuffield scholar with a bloody interesting story! Whether that’s starting running the family farm at 19, trying every diversification under the sun, money challenges, finding real success and selling the business or ultramarathons Andrew has done it all! We talk the intricacies and challenges of sales, marketing and building a brand, fire pits a...

Getting into farming at 8, building a business and the importance of the farming community! Today’s guest farms in Kintyre, the peninsula just north of the island I’m from, Arran!  Greig Gillespie and his wife, Jo (a vet) are building up their own flock at quite a rate while having their own jobs to go to as well! Greig speaks about the importance of support from people nearby and the ch...

Organics, GMO’s and raising kids on a farm! Ever meet someone that you just click with instantly and you can barely keep a conversation going for laughing, that’s what I got when I met Sally Bernard!  Farming in Canada, Sally and her partner farm grains and livestock in an integrated system organically!  After seeing a gap in the market they set up an organic feed mill! Sally will be loo...

Mental health first aid, farmer consumer engagement and podcasting  Not by design we welcome our second agricultural podcaster in 2 episodes.  Amy Hughes is a senior engagement manager for AHDB which aims to close the gap between both farmers and the consumer as well as farmers and other farmers! She also operates as a mental health first aider which comes in handy in her people focused...

Farming, podcasting and shinty! Today’s guest is someone I’ve been discussing podcasting with for some time! Noel Clancy runs the out the gap podcast which is completely filmed in person.  Living in Tipperary he found himself wanting to interview some people during lockdown and now finds himself travelling the country to do just that!  He also farms at home beef cattle in a very dai...

Tales of a Nuffield Scholar Today we welcome Roger Mercer, Nuffield scholar with two sons who are also in the same club!  Was very interesting to hear Roger’s mind consider how the business can be environmentally and financially sustainable all the while keeping everyone involved in whiner capacity they desire! We talk the challenges of a pre-phone scholarship!  Very smart, calculated ma...

Awards, education as well as the highs and lows of life! Emma Smith joins me on the podcast today to talk all things promoting food and farming in schools!   Not from farming Emma found her way in with Ruby Red Devon cattle and shows around the world.  Her and her husband have Herefords as well and they won the Yorkshire show with their bull on the year the Hereford society had...

Digital communications, Australia and…the land army?  Today’s guest, Emily Ashworth will probably be one of the most heard people in the sector.  After  some time in Australia where she started a food blog Emily found herself back in the UK! 10 years on and the best part of it with the Farmers Guardian we covered the intimacy of sharing the stories of a sector. On top of t...

Young Farmers, Trees and Dancing around the world! Couple weeks ago we welcomed Ally Brunton, the new national chair of SAYFC.  Today we bring on his deputy, Jillian Kennedy! Jillian who was brought up on a farm found herself in a graduate scheme with Scottish woodlands, 6 years later she is now I’m management with the organisation! Jillian travel the world across three continents with h...

Open farms, fighting for farmers and a cow zip line?! Today we welcome our current national woman in agriculture, Abi Reader.  Abi is a fantastic advocate for the sector with a dairy and sheep farm at home she operates as the deputy president of NFU Cymru.   She finds herself teaching food and farming in various schools across the nation and is consistently fighting the core of...

Tales of a Nuffield Scholar Continuing on our Nuffield Alumni Podcast we welcome Chris Taylor.  I was lucky enough to watch Chris’ presentation at the conference in Exeter last year! Christ tells his story not coming from farming before taking on a milking job and being hooked! Studying at harper, BASIS, Nuffield spanning two continents and more has led Chris to his current role as Chief...

Sports  engineering, young farmers and…blood farming? Today’s guest has a degree in sports engineering, plays a pivotal role in the home farm and has travelled to four continents!  What’s impressive is all of that has been through Young Farmers! Ally Brunton has been a member since 14 and been active since before that! Now he finds himself atop the tree as the organisations national...

South Africa to Yorkshire and everything in between.  Today’s guest, Megan Mulholland left South Africa with her husband and 2 year old in 2018 with the plan of heading to Yorkshire.  After landing they haven’t left the area! Megan is now the farm manager which involves what you expect…plus running three state of the art houses. We speak the differences between various things in the...

Marketing, zoos and farming! I met today’s guest over email a couple years ago when she helped make the Adam Henson podcast possible!! Charlotte Evans isn’t from this sector but has deep dived in through the medium of marketing! Operating at the Cotswold farm park originally and now with StowAg (you might recognise that name from the hat on Jeremy throughout Clarkson farm season three). She’s acti...

Lleynwicks, getting into farming and raising a wee one on the farm! Today’s guests embody the reason I started a podcast. What are the potential jobs in this sector and firstly how do you make it into this industry?  The sector is directly barriered to entry and these guys have earned their spot but required a self proclaimed dose of luck! Ella and Lawrence Martin are in their first tenancy!...

Today Ed and I welcomed another live podcast to the Howden stand! This time in Scotland at the Royal Highland Show! We were welcomed by Andy Frazier, Liz Haines and Rob Waiwright to talk new books, neurodiversity and playing for the Lions! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agroforestry, community farming and chasing the olympics? Today we have our second episode of the Nuffield alumni podcast! Today is our first scholar on the series!  This man has been integral in making this series happen!  David Rose, was born into farming and has shaped his agribusiness around conservation where food security is paramount.  The farm is home to various bu...

Veg, tenancies, creating an accepting industry and flooding to the point we need a new name for it!  We welcome Ben Andrews onto the podcast today.  Ben tells about 1/3 of his farm being flooded as high as 5 feet in some places for notable periods of the year, the struggles with farm tenancy and the uncertainly that can come with it. Farming a mixed system of livestock, arable and v...

The first of two bonus episodes this week! Ed, Wallace and Yaz headed down to Malvern to attend the Three Counties Show…the day turned into a gorgeous day and had some fantastic food, drink, livestock and more on show! We filmed a podcast with three notable figures in the sector in this area, Emma Smith, Ben Andrews and Karl Franklin all of whom you can hear in the R2Kast! we fought through the no...

Three bearded men walk into a podcast and find whole dose of craic!…check the spelling!!  Today we welcome Northern Irish brothers with a whole lot of stories behind them!  One, Glen rapidly finding his way in the world of beef genetics with a focus on the Speckled Park (composite breed of Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn and British White Park) a mere 4 years after leaving the army. &nbsp...