R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

Farming ladders and mobile milking parlours?

Today’s guest, a day before I was an official Nuffield scholar cemented a mention in my final presentation! Listen to find out why! 😉

Oli Chedgey was brought up on a very small holding! Farming was what he always wanted! Starting with a few sheep having met farmers working as contractor. 

Bustling that business up to 600 with someone else running it Oli jumped to dairy, but in a very unconventional sense, with a mobile parlour! 

Following on from Michael blanches Nuffield the farming ladder Oli has built on that and is looking to see how people can buy into farming!

Great chat with an amazing business man!

thanks to Howden insurance and Scottish Farmer for their support!

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Cover crops and guarding the queen?

Today I embarrassed myself! Today’s guest is from a farm but after doing a degree in politics, working through the grenadier guards he didn’t originally see himself going back! 

With a very business minded brain Toby Simpson came back to the family farm and wanted to implement a regenerative tweak to the farm.  Amongst others Toby saw major merits in cover crops which he has focused his Nuffield scholarship on.

Having presented in findings in November it was class to delve deeper…like the tap roots do!

Enjoy!

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Sheep, Semen and Young Farmers 

Today we welcome a friend! Always enjoy having a chat with someone I know and learning more than I already did!

Ailish Ross was lucky enough to be graced with my presence in our times at uni!  Coming completely not from farming Ailish has carved a career in the sector very quickly!

In 3rd year giving a lambing a go followed by milking pretty quick out of uni Ailish had a job! Embryo transfer and AI were what followed, then the AHDB and then for the last 7 years working with the Texel sheep society currently operating as events and sales cataloguing manager.

In recent weeks she has been chosen as one of the elite NSA Ambassadors.

On top of this, after starting young farmers she has had a rapid progression through the organisation with a lot of success!

Great chat with a great person who’s growing and growing!

Enjoy!

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ONE HUDRED AND EIGHTYYYYY 🎯 

Luke Littler really put Darts back on the scene at the turn of the year with his rise to the World Darts Championship Final at 16!  Luke currently sits at 31st in the world and sure to rise (he says with no understanding of darts) 

Today I (as Ed got stuck in Orkney) sat down with Rab Smith, ex-WORLD NUMBER 4! We’ve had the privilege of picking the minds of some people right at the top of their game, Stevie Nicol, Rose Davies but never someone to reach the dizzying height of, in his words ‘one win away from number 1!’…

The mentality of Rab, 47 years on from his major triumphs in the sport was still there…hadn’t touched a dart in 4 years and I got the chance to play with him…he knew exactly where the Oche was, dart board to the millimetre right height and there was a small wager that you’ll hear in the video…I failed! 

A great story with a gentleman who truly reached the top of his profession who welcomed me into his own home!

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Business, drones and…robots?!

Today we welcome someone who I wrote about during my masters a fair old bit! 

Sam Watson-Jones started the Small Robot Company.  A business aimed at creating a system where per plant farming can treat a field as a million plants instead of a field.  This means less requirements for chemical and fertiliser, just where and when it’s required…think of it as a very specific variable rate technology!  This month unfortunately SRC had to go into liquidation with various investors seeing it as being to far ahead of the rest of the market as is.

Sam is now deducting his Nuffield scholarship to per plant precision!

Very interesting chat with someone I’ve been a massive fan of for some time!

Enjoy! 

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Looking good!!

I’d like to think most of the time I have an idea of what I’m talking about with a guest but would be fair to say today that was not the case! 

As I mentioned during the chat, as I sat here in a triple Tesco get up interviewing the founder and editor in chief of Femme Magazine, Brontë Clare Mitchell! Creating a quarterly magazine aimed at showcasing rural fashion and lifestyle came with stresses though! 

We speak what it’s offered Brontë at such a young age, her uni times, fast fashion, Rupert…of course and so much more! 

Great chat with an interesting entrepreneur!! 

Thank you to Howden Insurance and the Scottish Farmer! 

Enjoy! 

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Goats, goats and…goats! 

In June you may have seen me walk in to the goat tent with RHS TV loudly exclaiming that this was in fact ‘heaven in a tent’…I stand by it! A top 2 animal up there with cats! 

Today we bring on a Nuffield scholar who started as an English teacher and after a chat on a plane with her partner, Fraser decided to buy some goats.  Obviously at this point it wasn’t time to ditch the full time jobs but there was time!

Fast forward today and with three figures of milking goats Rachel Yarrow of Norton and Yarrow Cheese is trying to find a pasture based goat system that could be implemented large scale here in the UK!

We talk tenancies, getting into farming and so much more…also some goats!!

A great chat with a goat nerd! 

Thanks to Howden rural and Scottish farmer for their support!

Enjoy!

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Marbles? Marbling? 

Today we welcome Gwion Parry! Gwion has been successful in a Nuffield application this year with a focus on a grading system for meat that allows the UK to tell the consumer what to expect as opposed to the outdated fat class and EUROP Scale!

Gwion ‘studied’ at Aberystwyth university before a brilliant time in New Zealand.  He then headed home to join the home farm but wanted his own business and found one that leaves him as one of only around 5 in the country.  He scans cattle for far depth and marbling, a techniques used heavily in stabilisers which Gwion runs at home.  It’s now branching out into other breeds too!

He’s got a few flights awaiting him and I look forward to following! 

Thanks to Howden rural and the Scottish farmer for their support!

Enjoy!

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What’s the difference between, you, me and the next person? 

The answer that question could be a few things but class in society isn’t one of them.  Our guest today is an utter saint of this sector…and literally and OBE (as of this week).  

Navaratnam Partheeban, or Theeb is a vet…by the way listen to the name change tradition in Theeb’s culture (Tamil), it’s really cool and also leads to a lovely lineage! 

Sorry, he’s a vet…he’s a Nuffield scholar, he’s an OBE, he’s a lecturer but there’s still something even more impressive about this man.

Partheeban was victim of negative racial comments from a client before said client was sided with by his manager and he knew it was time to leave and also change the industry from within which he has done.

Co-founder of the British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society, a Nuffield scholarship carried out researching diversity in the sector and a new curriculum about to get read out through all vet and agriculture institutions it’s fair to say this man, unlike some is completely deserving of that OBE title. 

A chat with a gentleman changing the world one step at a time.

Thanks to Howden Rural and Scottish farmer for their countries support! 

Enjoy

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As this podcast started a second series aiming to showcase anyone with one rule, no ties to food or farming I expected roughly where that would go given Ed and I’s interest…sport and travel! Which in fairness it has almost been exclusively!

Today we bring on a PROPER thrill seeker, seeking a thrill that not only has the potential to be but proven lethal at times…that goes today is Ricky Forbes, someone who knew wanted a career of thrill or adventure, ex-host of Tornado Hunters, motivation and all round sound Canadian! 

Trust me, this is FULL of INSANE stories!

When we filmed this it was during that cold snap here in the UK, I said to Ricky ‘sorry we’re late mate, it’s a bit cold here’ failing to mention it was -3…before he said ‘not a problem my man, we’re the same here’s…his same was -42 C! Considered my pride well and truly through the digestive tract by now!

I also need to thank Suzette for all the nerdy tornado knowledge in this one…Suzette! You even get a mention and shoutout from Ricky!!

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Enjoy! 

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