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 changes you are making are reducing your carbon footprint.

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 matter how hard the butterflies are kicking and how to keep your audience fully engaged. This is the final part of this two part series.

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 matter how hard the butterflies are kicking and how to keep your audience fully engaged. This is the first part of two.

Will Vaughan-France and Peter Craven talk about his recently completed Nuffield Scholarship where he has been looking at The Formula for Family Business Success. The family aspect within a business can often cause timeless problems relevant to many farming businesses, one generation after the next dealing with problems of succession, lack of communication, trust and change. Farming businesses also have generational, family dynamics and educational problems all contributing to the success or failure of a business.

https://www.nuffieldscholar.org/scholars/2020/peter-craven

In this episode David is in conversation with Bill Young, former head of the Addington Fund (and much more!).

David and Paul are in conversation with James Cantrill, a farmer in Staffordshire talking about his life in farming and politics, including the importance of diversification, innovation and change.

Carbon markets: As part of the carbon mini-series, Elizabeth Stockdale is talking to Mark Reid, professor in rural entrepreneurship at SRUC, Scotland’s Rural College discussing why we need a carbon market, the carbon market place and what you may want to be considering doing in anticipation of entering the market.

The science behind the spotlight on lowland peat: As part of the carbon mini-series, Elizabeth Stockdale is talking to Chris Evans from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology about highly productive black soils, their importance in carbon management and their importance in helping us to achieve net zero.