The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In episode 35, Rose Riley is in conversation with Ana Nicod, head of climate change strategy at global commodity merchant, ECOM Agroindustrial, and

Together, they discuss how the leading merchant, ECOM

From carbon accounting and credible verification to building climate resilience and restoring farm biodiversity, this is an episode not to be missed.

To learn more about ECOM Agroindustrial and GreenPods, visit the links below.

ECOM Agroindustrial

Website https://www.ecomtrading.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecom-trading/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ECOMAgroindustrial

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ecom.trading/

GreenPods

Website https://en.greenpods.ag/  

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenpods/

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In this insightful episode, Rose Riley is in conversation with Charlie Angelakos, vice-president of global external affairs and sustainability at McCain Foods, and Cannon Michael, president and CEO at Bowles Farming Company in California.

Together they delve into how building resilience in farming operations with regenerative practices is essential to ensure the sustainability and longevity of global food and textile systems, while striving to restore the environment and reverse climate change.

Charlie and Cannon share their strategies and experiences as their businesses transcend along regenerative journeys, such as managing hugely diverse crop rotations, learning to adapt practices while working in different climates around the world, implementing trial and error and mitigating risk.

They also discuss the importance of considering the human and community aspects of the regenerative approach, along with how crucial it is to have data integrity and claim credibility as the regenerative agriculture movement continues to evolve at pace.

To learn more about McCain Foods and Bowles Farming Company, visit the links below.

McCain Foods

Website https://www.mccain.com/

Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-hot-potato-podcast/id1707659701

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/mccainfoods/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mccainglobal

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mccainglobal/

X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/mccainglobal

Bowles Farming Company

Website https://bfarm.com/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BowlesFarming/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bowlesfarming/

X (formerly Twitter)

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In this episode, Rose Riley speaks to Rebecca Geraghty, chief commercial officer at UK-based agri-food data marketplace, Agrimetrics, and Michele Bandecchi, CEO and founder of soil intelligence business, Smart Cloud Farming, about the role of data and digital technology in the transition to regenerative agriculture.

Rebecca and Michele discuss how sector innovations are helping farmers optimise sustainable farm management, while driving businesses in the supply chain to meet their environmental targets.

Agrimetrics aims to accelerate new innovations in agri-food and environmental sectors by hosting and governing data – including the regenagri platform. Simply put, Rebecca says: “Having better data helps make better decisions.”

Smart Cloud Farming aims to bring agronomy and AI together, to align soil intelligence and sustainable farming. Michele says: “You cannot improve what you cannot measure.”

Both Rebecca and Michele believe data and technology serves as a communications tool but the challenge lies in the way it is collated and presented to key stakeholders – interoperability of data is key.

To learn more about Agrimetrics and Smart Cloud Farming, visit the links below.

Agrimetrics

Website https://www.agrimetrics.co.uk/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrimetrics/

X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/Agrimetrics

Smart Cloud Farming

Website https://www.smartcloudfarming.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartcloudfarming/

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In this episode, Rose Riley speaks to David Brussa, director of total quality and sustainability at illycaffè, which has just become the first coffee brand to achieve regenagri certification.

David shares illycaffè’s heritage, which instills quality and sustainability hand-in-hand, and the company’s regenerative agriculture mission.

Working closely with Brazilian coffee growers and the Federation of Cerrado Mineiro producers for 30 years, illycaffè has brought its supply chain together to produce the newly regenagri certified Arabica Selection Brazil Cerrado Mineiro coffee.

David explains how a holistic approach, farming with nature and reducing inputs, has helped coffee growers of Cerrado Mineiro increase yields and reduce pests, as well as improve the health of the community while working the land.

He also adds that regenerative agriculture is a journey of learning and to improve you must continuously test and trial practices and measure results.

To learn more about illycaffè and follow its biodiversity mission, visit the links below.

illycaffè

Website https://www.illy.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/illycaffe/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/illyuk/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/illy_coffee/

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In this episode, Rose Riley speaks to Michaël van Cutsem, co-founder of Beeodiversity, about using pollinator data to inform regenerative practices, improve biodiversity and reduce environmental impact.

Michaël explains that we all benefit from biodiversity and bee pollination is fundamental to create and restore ecosystems. However, bees are in severe decline globally, at a rate of 30% per year, from a lack of biodiversity, risk of disease and an increase in pollutants.

Being natural drones, bees can tell us a lot about local environments. Using pioneering techniques and data analysis, pollen collected from strategically placed beehives provides a wealth of information about plant species diversity and pollutants in a targeted area.

Michaël shares how this data has been used to encourage regenerative farming practices and changes in corporate operations that benefit the environment, as well as human health, while also addressing the issue of bee decline.

To learn more about our Beeodiversity and to follow their biodiversity mission, visit the links below.

Website https://beeodiversity.com/en/

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/beeodiversity/

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/BeeOdiversity/

YouTube @beeodiversity2982

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

To explore the subject of coaching supply chains in transitioning to regenerative agriculture in the podcast’s 30th episode, Rose Riley welcomes Matthew Ryan, regeneration ] lead at Nestlé UK & Ireland, and Patrick Barker, partner at EJ Barker & Sons at Lodge Farm in Suffolk, East of England. Regenerative agriculture is a core pillar and fundamental part of global food and beverage company, Nestlé’s net zero commitments. Nestlé is striving to have 20% of its key ingredients sourced through regenerative methods by 2025, and 50% 2030.  

Matthew explains how, to achieve these goals, Nestlé is championing collaborative initiatives, such as the Land Enterprise Network (LENs) and First Milk, to encourage regenerative principles at farm level and throughout the supply chain, to help build environmental and economic resilience.

Working closely with Nestlé as part of LENs, Patrick manages Lodge Farm alongside his cousin Brian Barker, an arable farm enterprise of 545 hectares, with a diverse 12-year rotation of feed winter wheat, herbage grass seed and break crops of spring barley, beans, oilseed rape or linseed.

Regenerative farming principles are at the heart of the farm’s ethos, building soil health and restoring nature, while running a successful business and knowledge sharing with other farmers.

The Barkers have just finished a nine-year Monitor and Strategic farm journey with the AHDB (Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board) in the UK, running field-scale

To learn more about our guests and follow their regenerative journeys and perspectives, visit the links below.

Nestlé UK & Ireland

Website https://www.nestle.co.uk/en-gb/sustainability/regeneration

Twitter @NestleUKI

LinkedIn Nestlé

Facebook  Nestlé UK & Ireland

Instagram @nestleuki

Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) https://landscapeenterprisenetworks.com/

EJ Barker & Sons, Lodge Farm

Website https://ahdb.org.uk/farm-excellence/strategic_cereal_farm_east

Twitter @The_Barker_Boys

BBC Wild Iles https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0fd45w7/wild-isles-saving-our-wild-isles

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In episode 29, Rose Riley from Control Union UK, welcomes Fabiana Furlan, head of commercial, finance and sustainability at Scheffer, along with Alberto Candiani, owner and president of Candiani Denim, to explore the unusual connection formed between the two businesses from both ends of what is typically a fragmented textile supply chain.

Scheffer’s Brazilian farming production units produce the regenerative cotton that is supplied to Candiani Denim, based in Italy, for use in its clothing manufacturing processes to create sustainable denim products. Interested to learn more about regenerative agriculture and its principles and seeking more environmentally friendly sourced materials, Alberto sought this collaboration with Scheffer and their aligned values have seen the connection flourish.

Fabiana and Alberto discuss why their shared ethics, such as transparency and traceability, and integrity and credibility, are so important to them, within regenerative agriculture and the wider textile supply chain, and how regenerative practices offer futureproof solutions to ensure environmental stability and scalable business growth.

To learn more about our guests and follow their regenerative journeys and perspectives, visit the links below.

Scheffer

Website https://www.scheffer.agr.br/#

Twitter @gruposcheffer

LinkedIn Scheffer oficial

Facebook Scheffer

Instagram @schefferoficial

Candiani Denim

Website https://www.candianidenim.com/             

LinkedIn Candiani SpA

Facebook Candiani Denim

Instagram @candianidenim

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In episode 28, Rose Riley from Control Union UK, welcomes Michael Kavanagh, first-generation regenerative farmer and co-founder of the Green Farm Collective, and Andrew Christie, agronomist and agri-technologist at the James Hutton Institute, to discuss the biodiverse benefits of regenerative farming.

This episode explores Michael’s regenerative journey on his mixed arable and sheep 700ha farm in Shropshire, UK, over the last eight years and what inspired him and other likeminded award-winning regenerative farmers to create the Green Farm Collective.

Andrew also shares findings from large-scale regenerative trials in Scotland, with a diverse range of arable crops, that have just completed a second six-year rotation and how the cost-benefit analysis is showing that regenerative farming can deliver public goods as well as close the yield gap over time.

To learn more about our guests and follow their regenerative journeys and perspectives, visit the links below.

Green Farm Collective

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

James Hutton Institute

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture. 

In episode 27, Rose Riley from Control Union UK, welcomes Mark Brooking Sustainability Director at British-owned dairy co-operative, First Milk, and John Brunnquell, CEO and President of US-based Egg Innovations, to discuss the transition to regenerative practices within dairy and egg supply chains. 

This episode explores public perceptions and education around regenerative agriculture, market demand, investment from government and private sources for companies and farmers, measuring and evidencing the co-benefits of regenerative farming practices, and whether regenerative produce carries a premium among retailers and consumers. 

To learn more about our guests and follow their regenerative journeys, visit the links below.  

firstmilk.co.uk  

Facebook: @Frirst Milk 

Twitter: @first_milk 

LinkedIn: @First Milk 

egginnovations.com 

Facebook: @Egg Innovations 

Twitter: @EggInnovations 

LinkedIn: @Egg Innovations 

The regenagri podcast is a platform for leading industry experts to explore the future of farming and the hot topics surrounding the global movement of regenerative agriculture.

In episode 26, Rose Riley from Control Union UK, welcomes Meshark Sikuku, regional Farm Systems and Sustainability Coordinator at Ripple Effect to discuss the community benefits of regenerative agriculture. Meshark has more than 15 years' experience working in agriculture with NGOs, helping communities to build sustainable farm systems for improving food security, nutrition and livelihoods.

Formerly known as Send a Cow, Ripple Effect was established in 1988 by a small group of West Country farmers. Its headquarters are in the UK, with a hub in Nairobi, where Meshark is based. The organisation works with smallholder farmers and communities across six countries in East Africa, bringing farmers together to learn new skills and share knowledge so they can improve their livelihoods and build sustainable agri-businesses.

In this episode, Meshark describes how the method of farming promoted by Ripple Effect’s peer farmer trainers is rooted in regenerative principles to protect natural environments and build resilience to climate change. This is important for making the land more productive, enabling framers to increase yields, generate more income and, in turn, to form co-operatives or diversify their farm businesses for accessing new markets and achieving greater control over their future.

Meshark shares success stories from his work in Kenya and Uganda, and also explains the importance of gender and social development training to ensure no one is left behind and that the community benefits of regenerative farming can be enjoyed by all.

To learn more about Ripple Effect visit rippleeffect.org. You can also follow them on social media @RippleEffectNGO.