R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

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**R2Kast – People in Food and Farming/All In**

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Latest Episodes:

R2Kast 187 - Nuffield Weekly Travel Update - Week 1 Brazil Mar 22, 2024

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For each week of my travels through Nuffield I intend on releasing a wee update of what’s been happening!

This one is the pre-CSC in London followed by the first few days in Brazil…before it all went wrong!

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R2Kast 186 - Flavian Obiero 2.0 on diversity, fatherhood, pigs, countryfile and more! Mar 18, 2024

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Diversity, pigs and fatherhood!

Back in July 2021 I phoned a guy called Flavian who I’d heard talk about casual racism in farming and spoke for about 2 hours on the phone and then released a ‘people in farming’ essay… a few months after he was on the podcast and now 3 years on it’s time for an update!

He’s now a dad primarily, has his own farm with his partner, Nic, various diversifications and so much on the go!

Great chat with a proper pioneer!

Enjoy!

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R2Kast 185 - Dan Smith on Jamie’s Farm, deprived backgrounds and Nuffield Mar 15, 2024

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Mobile phones, therapy and…farming?

This was a great chat! It went in a direction I never expected! Dan Smith works with Jamie’s Farm as a farm manager but by extension find himself moulding the futures of teens from poor background! I can’t sell this enough, listen.

Dan is carrying out his Nuffield on how to inspire this generation to care about regeneration!

A deep and amazing discussion with a great guy!

Enjoy!

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R2Kast 184 - Luisa Hendry on Rocks, Geology, Instagram, Rocks and Rocks Mar 11, 2024

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One could say this is faultless!

On this episode of the All In series we welcome instant social media success story, Luisa Hendry!

Luisa who from a young age lived all things rocks, whether that was films, TV or the real thing!

Then at a school open day realised you could study it and it’s been her life ever since!

Ed and I were out our depth here but very interesting!!

Tune in for some craic, rocks and of course, tinder chat up lines!

Sorry for the slight technical issue near the end!

Enjoy!

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R2Kast 183 - Oli Chedgey on building on the farming ladder, mobile milking and Nuffield! Mar 08, 2024

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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!

Enjoy!

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R2Kast 182 - Toby Simpson on Nuffield, Cover Crops, the Army and more! Mar 04, 2024

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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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R2Kast 181 - Ailish Ross on Uni, YF, Texels and more! Mar 01, 2024

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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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R2Kast 180 - All in with Rab Smith on being number 4 in the world darts player! Feb 26, 2024

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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!

Thank you to magicmind for their support, check out the website www.magicmind.com/rukitchen20 and use code rukitchen20 for 56% off!…16 double top % that is!!

Enjoy!

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R2Kast 179 - Sam Watson-Jones on Small Robot Company, Per Plant Precision and Nuffield Feb 23, 2024

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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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R2Kast 178 - Brontë Clare Mitchell on fashion, lifestyle, Femme Magazine and more Feb 19, 2024

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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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