405: Harvesting knowledge at Groundswell discussions

Last month, we hosted some speaker sessions at Groundswell covering topics on regenerative agriculture, crop rotation, perennial agriculture, genetic diversity of grains, and composting. In this podcast, Jason Hendy, Knowledge Exchange Manager, AHDB, brings together a summary of each session, including interviews with the speakers. Speakers Day one - session one: Mind the Gap John Pawsey, Mind the Gap session speaker at Groundswell Alice Andrews, Cereals Rural Jonathan Hodgson, Great Newsome Farm James Standen, Director of Farms, Newcastle University Farms Session two: Is perennial agriculture the future? Stephen Briggs, Senior Partner at Abacus Agriculture, head of technical development at Innovation for Agriculture & Non Exec Director of AHDB David Miller, Famer Dominic Amos, Organic Arable Emily Grant, Sheep farmer and an independent consultant Day two - session three: Discussing the genetic diversity of grains Michael Marriage, Farmer at Doves Farm Foods ltd DR Phil Howell, Lead NIAB’s germplasm development, Designing Future Wheat, IWYP European Winter Wheat Hub projects. Dr Edward Dickin, Lecturer in crop physiology at Harper Adams University Fred Price, Farmer, Gothelney Farm Session four: Getting comfortable with composting Julia Cooper, Principal Researcher in Crop Diversity and Agronomy, Organic Research Centre Ben Taylor-Davies, Farmer Billy Lewis, Farmer, Boycefield Farm Andrew Sincock, Director and joint owner of Agriton and Agro-Vital Feedback We'd love to know what you think of our podcasts. If you’d like to give your feedback, please complete our short questionnaire, which will help us to improve the podcast on an ongoing basis, or email us with your thoughts, comments and suggestions: [email protected] This episode was produced and edited by Pinstone