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R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In

Brought to you from Rural2Kitchen. The podcast where agricultural minds open up.Sponsored primarily by Howden Rural Insurance as well as the Scottish Farmer Follow us on all platforms here - https://linktr.ee/rural2kitchenTo get in touch email rural2kitchen@gmail.comComplete this survey to help out the show! Thank you so much - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBDRnGerPw2w-nNBT6st4wCI2ldi4OZPrIIrJ-_rsRWCKq1A/viewform?usp=sf_link Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:09:33

R2Kast 178 - Brontë Clare Mitchell on fashion,...

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2024/02/19

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,

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1:09:29

R2Kast 177 - Rachel Yarrow on goat farming, Nuffield...

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2024/02/16

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

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R2Kast 176 - Gwion Parry on Meat Quality, New...

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2024/02/12

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year with a focus on a grading system for meat that allows the UK to tell the consumer what to expect as opposed to the outdated fat class and EUROP Scale!Gwion ‘studied’ at Aberystwyth university before a brilliant time in New Zealand.He then headed home to join the home farm but wanted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

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1:23:20

R2Kast 175 - Navaratnam Partheeban on veterinary,...

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2024/02/09

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

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1:45:04

R2Kast 174 - All in with Ricky Forbes on Tornadoes,...

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2024/02/05

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

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1:15:33

R2Kast 173 - Dr Keith Dawson on farming 20000ha,...

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2024/02/02

A PhD, farming 200000 hectares and saving lives.Do you ever get the feeling you’re just meant to meet someone?! I got that sort of initial feeling the second I shook today’s guests hand!Today we welcome Keith Dawson onto the podcast! Normally when someone has a PhD that’s a pretty big thing but we barely mention it in today’s episode! Keith was an environmental scientist in agriculture WELL before it was cool and has been involved in various projects over the years.His most notable are establishing

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1:10:24

R2Kast 172 - Sophie Gregory 2 (update) on organics,...

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2024/01/29

The first ever for the R2KastWe’ve had people like Claire Taylor, Alec Pirie and Christine Cuthbertson who have appeared on two episodes (one as an individual and one on the group series) or even Jane Strawhorn who has appeared in an individual episode, group podcast and even and extra for our group who went to Africa!Today’s guest finds herself as the only one to appear on two episodes both times as an individual!Sophie Gregory came into farming from accountancy and has properly grabbed the bull by

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1:00:00

R2Kast 171 - Laura Awdry on deer farming, calf...

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2024/01/26

Deer, calves and…flowers?!Today’s guest, Laura Awdry grew up on a deer farm in New Zealand. She then decided to travel to the UK for a couple years before meeting her now husband and they found themselves expecting!Throwing herself into the deep end at her partner, Sam’s farm she started her calf rearing business with a hundred calves in a rented shed from her father in law which in his words he ‘thought he’d have it back in a year’…16 years on Laura rears 600.Along with Sam and the kids they have

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1:56:29

R2Kast 170 - All in with Stevie Nicol on winning the...

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2024/01/22

I have filmed…well 170 episodes and to me this is the wildest!Our guest today is not only an ESPN pundit, he’s not only an ex-NEW England Revolution manager of 10 years in the MLS but he’s also a European cup winner who played for a decade in ‘that’ Liverpool team.Barcelona around 2010, Real Madrid in the late 50s, maybe even AC Milan around 1990 but few top the Liverpool of the late 70s into 80s.Stevie Nicol was the right back for a fair chunk of the 80s lifting the division 1 title 4 times, the FA

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55:44

R2Kast 169 - Tom Scrope on changing careers, starting...

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2024/01/19

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

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1:16:55

R2Kast 168 - Jamie Stokes on National Trust and Crown...

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2024/01/15

Queens, DB5’s and Wheat!Our guest today grew up on an arable farm and knew it was always for him but has went around the houses before ending up at home!Jamie stoles studied agriculture because operating as a mediator and consultant between farmers and researchers for the national trust and then the crown estate!After a while doing this he took over the management of the family 1000ha arable unit with his two cousins!His addiction to all things cars is the main bane of his bank account’s life but

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R2Kast 167 - Cormac White on veterinary, Egypt, small...

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2024/01/12

Belfast, Cairo and goats in SomersetTodays guest Cormac White stubbornly decided at about 4 being a vet was his career, and it happened. Some fun at uni before travelling with his career followed!He found himself after graduating heading to New Zealand and Egypt to practise. Seeing some pretty horrendous things that’s he ‘hopes’ he won’t see again! Eye opening experiences with wonderful people was his explanation of Egypt!After this he headed back to the UK where he met his now partner and how

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1:10:58

R2Kast 166 - Gunnar Garfors on going to every country...

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2024/01/10

That’s just plane crazy!Every year I love a look at the Guinness Book of World Records and have done since I was a kid, whether it was Ashrita Furman with what I remember to be over 600 records himself, Robert Wadlow and Sultan Kösen as the tallest people ever and currently respectively or even the weird and wonderful such as the most watermelons smashed by the head by Roberto Rodriguez! It could have been a record conceptualised out of complete stupidity and absurdity or the absolutely peak of

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R2Kast 165 - Amy Stoner on Supply Chains, Australia...

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2024/01/08

Supply chains the most important link?Series 4 begins with a fantastic guest and another of our 2024 Nuffield cohort! Thanks for the support last year and let’s top it again this year!Today we have Amy Stoner who always wanted to work in food in some capacity starting as a teenager she made an interactive business allowing kids to cater their own parties!After school it was Food Nutrition and Wellbeing and Food Industry Management at BSc and MSc respectively.Them with the training of a friend to

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1:32:53

R2Kast 2023 Christmas Special on Wallace’s year -...

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2023/12/29

R2Kast Christmas special!The roles were reversed for this one where Ed interviewed Wallace about everything that’s been going on in the last few months which is a lot! We spoke about the podcast and what else I’ve been to from charity fundraisers to travelling across 3 continents.We go into a lot of depth about my life changing trip to Africa and my short trip to Ukraine. Not least before touching on my Nuffield scholarship where we are just getting started!A fun one to end the year and hope it

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R2Kast 164 - Ifan Roberts on dairy, doubling a herd,...

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2023/12/22

From the lowest point at 19 to owning almost 400 cows at 28. Today’s guest, Ifan Roberts came from a farming family, his grandparents and parents operated small dairy farms in wales and he always knew it was for him but just in a much larger scale! After two years of college and around this time his parents divorce which he explains as the lowest point in his life he came out of college hungry. He knew that hunger was for big numbered dairy but didn’t know how. After getting a job on a dairy farm in

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1:34:48

R2Kast 163 - All In with Kate Rawles on cycling top...

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2023/12/20

Wanna go a cycle?…for 13 months?!A couple of months ago, as a lot of you will know I went to Ukraine with Pick Ups for Peace and spent about 15 hours in a car with a man called Bill! We got on like a house on fire and really got to know each other! We spoke about the podcast and he said his sister would be a good guest…trust me! He was right! Kate Rawles comes on to share her story today which starts with career confusion that took her to the states to study some of her PhD but really what mattered

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R2Kast 162 - Hattie McFadzean on a career in Myanmar,...

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2023/12/18

Myanmar you listening? Today’s guest, Hattie McFadzean studied a few modules at uni that guided her into a slightly different path! Having come from a family where both parents were from farming but not farming in Hattie or her brothers lifetime Hattie found a new interest in farming but with focus on sustainability and the climate.In what can only be described as some pretty impressive procrastination as she wrote her dissertation Hattie applied for a job working in Vietnam before being transferred

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R2Kast 161 - Liz Haines on running a dairy, AHDB, her...

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2023/12/15

The greatest word ever developed!That’s a pretty strong title I get but I completely mean it! People with autism, ADHD and Dyslexia amongst others in the past would have been called disabled and now the term neurodiversity has been coined I think it can only ever be a positive change for that demographic! Todays guest, Liz Haines is not only in my Nuffield cohort but also runs a farm, holds a position in the AHDB and much more!Last year liz was diagnosed with ADHD and a lot of things started to make

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1:18:20

R2Kast 160 - Andrew Simpson on career confusion, the...

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2023/12/11

Not all those who wander are lost, even those in Wheat, OSR and…Oak trees? One of my favourite things about the podcast is when you get the chance to open up about the career. You normally have heard about most of it but there’s always more to learn! Oak was one of my closest friends for 3 years back in my first three years of my undergraduate! Many a beer was drank, late night studying and much more! He’s travelled the world, driven semis, been in the police and now operates as an agronomist! I

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