Perfecting Potatoes Together

Perfecting Potatoes Together

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Perfecting Potatoes Together episodes

  • Where’s your bread at?

    In our first episode, we’re talking about all things bread. Where it comes from, how it’s made and our favourite types. We talk to Lincolnshire farmer Andrew Ward, who gives a frank picture of farming, and the role farmers play as stewards of the environment. Angus McDowell shares his experiences as a farmer, maltster, and miller from East Lothian and finally, we hear from Pete Welborn a third-generation family baker. Friends of BASF share their favourite bread and how they like to eat it and are way off in how many loaves the UK bakes every day. Have a listen and to show you’re support, tell us why you think farming is the biggest job on earth to receive a free t-shirt here: https://www.agricentre.basf.co.uk/biggestjobonearth/tshirts

    37 min
  • BASF Perfecting Potatoes Together Podcast - Potatoes in trial: looking to the future
    In our podcast this month we chat to Lancashire grower Andrew Webster who talks about some of the challenges he is facing growing potatoes and his trials that are looking to help mitigate them in the future. We also talk about the loss of AHDB and his focus on setting up a new grower group in Lancashire to help share knowledge and ideas to support the future of the sector.
    And with all our podcasts, we find out about his favourite variety…spoiler, he had two!!
    19 min
  • BASF Perfecting Potatoes Together Podcast - Growing Potatoes on an Island
    How do you plant potatoes in a field that is so steep you can’t use a tractor? And what does hemp and tea have to do with potatoes? This month we sat down with Mike Renouard, Business Unit Director from the Jersey Royal Company to find out how they are growing potatoes, investing in their environment and supporting the local community. We packed a lot into this short 20-minute podcast.
    17 min
  • BASF Perfecting Potatoes Together - Water Management and Stewardship
    Did you know a potato has more vitamin c than an orange… but you need to leave the skin on to take advantage of all its nutritional value? In our next podcast we chat to Paul Goddard, Business Development Manager at BASF, Lucinda Smith, Agronomist at Dyson Farming and Simon Faulkner, an Independent Agronomist from Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk. We talk about the value of potatoes, managing pests, Nemaslug® and trials on farm.
    31 min
  • BASF Perfecting Potatoes Together - Soil, Sustainability and Spuds
    This month we chat with Aberdeenshire seed potato grower, Jim Reid, and BASF’s Agricultural Sustainability Manager, Mike Green to look at how and what can be done on-farm to support the future of potato production, whilst also protecting our land and the environment. We talk rotations, straw mulch, beetle banks, wildflower strips, headlands, PCN, blight and… stones!
    28 min
  • BASF Perfecting Potatoes Together - Digging together for the future
    In our first podcast of 2022, Seed and Tuber expert David Turner and Justin Wilderspin, Head of Farming and Procurement at Albert Bartlett join Paul Goddard, Business Development Manager at BASF to reflect on some of the challenges facing the potato sector last season, plans for the year ahead, new innovation and trials, and their favourite potatoes ... teaser, they didn’t all agree on the same spud! Tune into this short 20-minute podcast to join them.
    21 min

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