Latest Meet the farmers Podcast Episodes
Into the archive - Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones and Anna Jones
Meet the Farmers - July 22, 2024 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMeet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and Head of Podcasts at RuralPod Me...
Into the archive - Rich Heady, Aled Evans, Jess Langton
Meet the Farmers - July 15, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMeet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and Head of Podcasts at RuralPod Me...
From fire breathing vegan to Derbyshire dairy farmer - meeting Alistair Macbeth
Meet the Farmers - July 08, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlistair Macbeth, a mixed livestock farmer in Derbyshire, shares his journey from accidental farmer to managing a small dairy farm. The farm is located in the Peak District and is primarily focused on dairy farming, with a herd of 40 cows. Alistair also keeps Jacob sheep and Gloucestershire Old ...
Groundswell 2024 - How to scale regenerative agriculture?
Meet the Farmers - July 01, 2024 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMeet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and Head of Podcasts at RuralPod Me...
Investing in Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture - with Jake Freestone
Meet the Farmers - June 24, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJake Freestone, farm manager at Overbury Farms, discusses the history and operations of the farm, as well as his journey in agriculture. Overbury Farms is a diverse estate and farming business that follows regenerative farming principles. Jake emphasizes the importance of investing in the next g...
The Evolution of a Dairy and Pigs Business - with Rory Christie
Meet the Farmers - June 17, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRory Christie, a dairy, pigs, and beef farmer from Dumfries and Galloway, shares the history and evolution of his family farm. They have a 200-sow pig business and an 1100-cow dairy enterprise. Rory discusses the use of genetic testing, AI, and embryo transfer to improve the health and performan...
Intensive Poultry and Regenerative Arable - with former FW arable farmer of the year Will Oliver
Meet the Farmers - June 10, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWill Oliver, a fourth-generation arable and poultry farmer, discusses his farm in Leicestershire and the challenges and diversifications he has undertaken. The farm grows wheat, maize, and winter beans, and also has a poultry enterprise with 175,000 chickens. Will emphasizes the importance of ef...
Farming in Shetland with This Farming Life's Kirsty and Aimee Budge
Meet the Farmers - June 03, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImage credit: Kirsty and Aimee Budge Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the found...
Discovering Farming in Japan - with Rupert Shinner
Meet the Farmers - May 27, 2024 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImage credit: Rupert Shinner Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and H...
First time farming on the Isle of Wight - with Francesca Cooper
Meet the Farmers - May 20, 2024 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImage credit: Francesca Cooper Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and...
Ranching on a big scale - with Lauren Johnson
Meet the Farmers - May 13, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImage credit: Lauren Johnson Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder and H...
Rooted in Resilience: A Visit to Cultivate 2024
Meet the Farmers - May 06, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHuge thanks to the Cultivate team for allowing us to record at the event. Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and R...
Back to the Ranch - with Avery Wrigglesworth
Meet the Farmers - April 29, 2024 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsImage credit: Avery Wrigglesworth Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and RuralPod Media Ben Eagle is the founder ...
Curlews and Farming in the Dales - with Leigh Weston
Meet the Farmers - April 22, 2024 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBen speaks to Leigh Weston who farms in the Yorkshire Dales. Leigh is an ambassador for Curlew Action. Image credit: Leigh Weston Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Ou...
'Move Your Cows More Frequently' - with Ben Thomas
Meet the Farmers - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBen meets Cornish beef farmer Ben Thomas. Link to Six Inches of Soil Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and Rura...
Into the podcast archive
Meet the Farmers - April 08, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe take a look back through the podcast archive at 3 previous episodes. Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production agency. Please note that this podcast does not constitute advice. Our podcast disclaimer can be found here. About Ben and ...
The Growing Grower: From 7 Acres to 136 Acres - with Bal Padda
Meet the Farmers - April 01, 2024 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBal and his family run Vicarage Nurseries in the Vale of Evesham alongside his team of 10 full-time staff and 150 seasonal workers. Growing 1,200t of strawberries (4 million punnets) and 100t of raspberries each season on 136 acres, the business supplies UK retailers as well as wholesale and far...
From Interior Design to the Farm - with Anna Barton
Meet the Farmers - March 25, 2024 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re heading to Staffordshire to meet Anna Barton. Brought up in London and trained in interior design, Anna never imagined she’d become a farmer. Then she met her builder husband whose parents needed help running their soft fruit farm in Staffordshire, so in 2016 the pair moved there and...
Meet the Beef Farmer of the Year 2023 - with Ian Farrant
Meet the Farmers - March 18, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re heading to Herefordshire and Ben is speaking to Farmers Weekly’s 2023 Beef Farmer of the Year Ian Farrant who farms 600 acres of land on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. Beef production on the farm is part of a larger family partnership which also includes dairy and arable u...
Meet the Beef Farmer of the Year 2023
Meet the Farmers - March 18, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re heading to Herefordshire and Ben is speaking to Farmers Weekly’s 2023 Beef Farmer of the Year Ian Farrant who farms 600 acres of land on the Herefordshire/Worcestershire border. Beef production on the farm is part of a larger family partnership which also includes dairy and arable u...
The one with former MP Neil Parish
Meet the Farmers - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Ben speaks to the former MP and MEP Neil Parish about his life and political career, including his final days in Parliament and the events that led to his resignation in April 2022. Neil has started a new podcast called 'We Can Do Both' which explores the ideas around producin...
Six Inches of Soil - meet the team!
Meet the Farmers - March 06, 2024 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSix Inches of Soil is based on the regenerative farming movement in the UK and follows three young farmers for a year. It also explores broader concepts behind regenerative agriculture and the soil crisis. The film follows the stories of Anna Jackson, an 11th generation arable and sheep farmer...
American Apples and Facebook Marketplace - with Kait Thornton
Meet the Farmers - March 04, 2024 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re back in the US, in the far north west, indeed nearly on the Canadian border and Ben is meeting a fruit farmer from Washington State. Kait Thornton grows 180 hectares (440 acres) of apples and pears. She’s a 4th generation farmer at home but also started her own fruit selling company ...
Building the Inclusive Farm - with Mike Duxbury
Meet the Farmers - February 26, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMike Duxbury is the co-founder of Inclusive Farm, along with Ness Shillito. After a career in the wider agricultural sector and then at Vodafone, Mike saw the farm as his next step. Blind from the age of 6, inspiring disabled people and people with special needs is Mike's focus, through the me...
Corn, Soybeans and Social Media - with Zoe Kent
Meet the Farmers - February 19, 2024 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFind Zoe on Instagram here. Today we’re heading across to the US, to Ohio to meet 8th generation farmer Zoe Kent. Zoe grows 2000 acres of corn and soybeans and she has amassed a whopping 420,000 followers across Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram sharing her farming life. She graduated from college...
Bringing the Cows Back Home - with Huw Foulkes
Meet the Farmers - February 12, 2024 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re heading to Denbighshire in Wales to meet dairy and beef farmer Huw Foulkes. Huw was brought up on a dairy farm but was initially put off farming when he saw his father having to sell his herd. He got the farming bug at college though and ended up re-establishing a dairy on his family...
'Farming is a long term game' - with Ben Cooper
Meet the Farmers - February 05, 2024 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we’re heading to Wiltshire to meet arable and beef farmer Ben Cooper. Ben farms 800 acres alongside his brother and father in the Pewsey Vale of Wiltshire, growing wheat, barley, oats and canary seed as well as producing hay and straw. As well as the cattle and the crops Ben has helped the...
500 Years with One Family, and still looking to the future - with Clare Mainwaring
Meet the Farmers - January 29, 2024 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we are heading to Shropshire to the Oteley Estate which has been in the Mainwaring family for 500 years. Ben's guest is Clare Mainwaring who runs the 2000 acre estate with her husband Ian. Clare and Ian rear two herds of native British cattle – Shorthorns and Highlands, they have a flock o...
The Compaction Crisis - Talking Soils with Niels Corfield
Meet the Farmers - January 22, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNiels Corfield is an agricultural consultant based in Norfolk. You can find out more by visiting his website - Home - Regenerative agriculture consultancy for farmers and landowners (nielscorfield.com) Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the only specialist rural podcast production ...
Dairy Down Under - with Rachael McGrath
Meet the Farmers - January 15, 2024 09:40 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday Ben meets Rachael McGrath who is a dairy farmer based in south west Victoria in Australia. She farms with her dad and the herd is made up of stud Jerseys, Brown Swiss and some cross breeds. They also have sheep and horses on the farm. Meet the Farmers is produced by RuralPod Media, the o...
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