R2Kast 169 - Tom Scrope on changing careers, starting Soil Benchmarking, philosophy and Nuffield!

R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

English - January 19, 2024 19:00 - 55 minutes - 42 MB
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Philosophy, accountancy and soil!

Today’s guest has fitted a LOT in!

Coming from a small farm in Yorkshire, Tom Scrope went to uni to study philosophy (I had a wee chat about this with no idea about what was going on) before starting working in accountancy!

At a soil convention Tom came across an academic called Ben and they started a business together, Soil Benchmark! A very interesting data driven business which looks at soil profiling and mapping the country and creating a knowledge transfer area. A lot of this above my head but I found it very interesting!

He’s taken this to Nuffield and plans on looking at knowledge transfer models implemented in all soil affecting/affecting industries!

Great episode with pretty bloody clever guy!

Enjoy!

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