This is the end, beautiful friends.  Thank you all so much for listening x

Flavian Obiero talks about his family's move from Kenya to the UK when he was 15, settling in to life in a new country, how he got into farming, being a black man in an industry not exactly known for it's diversity, and what we can all do to help in that regard.  All this, and lots more..    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk Discover your new favourite harvest playlists. With all the tracks chosen by growers, Bayer’s Harvest Beats playlists on Spotify includes Combines Roll – a mix of classic tunes to get you singing the harvest in, while the After Dark playlist keeps you motivated and alert with upbeat tunes and classic anthems. Check out Bayer4CropsUK playlists on Spotify now!

A farmer who lives in London? What?! Tom Clarke's no ordinary thinker. Listen as we talk about about how he went from being a successful management consultant to taking over the family farm in Cambridgeshire after losing his father, with zero farming experience. All this, and lots more.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk Discover your new favourite harvest playlists. With all the tracks chosen by growers, Bayer’s Harvest Beats playlists on Spotify includes Combines Roll – a mix of classic tunes to get you singing the harvest in, while the After Dark playlist keeps you motivated and alert with upbeat tunes and classic anthems. Check out Bayer4CropsUK playlists on Spotify now!

Over 182 podcast interviews, and this is the first to make me cry. Liz Hoggarth is a wonderful person, who's dealt with a hell of a lot. Listen as we talk about just how devastating mental health issues can really be to entire families and communities.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk Win a takeaway for you and your team this harvest, courtesy of Bayer! Simply nominate your cab warrior - that team mate who goes above and beyond. Tell us why they deserve to win by tagging them and bayer in a tweet, or enter via the competition instagram post. Two teams will win each week during harvest. Full details on the Bayer4CropsUK social media accounts.

Llyr Jones talks about taking over the family farm at 19, the huge range of different enterprises he has on the farm, including sheep and cattle, renewable energy production, free range laying hens, and rape seed oil production, his many wider industry roles, and how he came to be driving across the Sahara Desert in a transit van..    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk Discover your new favourite harvest playlists. With all the tracks chosen by growers, Bayer’s Harvest Beats playlists on Spotify includes Combines Roll – a mix of classic tunes to get you singing the harvest in, while the After Dark playlist keeps you motivated and alert with upbeat tunes and classic anthems. Check out Bayer4CropsUK playlists on Spotify now!

Vicki Hird talks about what makes a successful campaigner, her work with Sustain, how we can make fairer food supply chains, her new book ' Re-Bugging the Planet', and lots, lots more..    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk Are you tired of hunting through papers to find a key bit of information and struggling with cumbersome farm software? Fieldmargin makes it easy to keep track of your farm wherever you are. With fieldmargin's mobile and web apps you have a digital farm map, field work, livestock grazing records and scouting notes at your fingertips. All your information is backed up to the cloud and shared with your team so everyone is on the same page. It even works offline. To find out more and get started for free go to fieldmargin.com/rockandroll. Plans start at £3.75 per month and you can get 20% off your first year with the code 'ROCKANDROLL'."

Gareth Edwards talks about his struggles with depression, selling the family farm, his involvement with the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, and living with prostate cancer. All this, and lots more..    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

George Young is one of the most interesting people, let alone farmers, that I know. Listen as he describes how he went from banking, film, and music, to a full-on agroecological mixed farmer with BIG plans for the future of his farm. All this, and much more..    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Bella Bathurst has written one of the best books about farmers and their relationship to land that I've ever read. Join us as we discuss 'Fieldwork - What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land', and what she discovered whilst writing it.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk FieldMouse Research needs farmers to take part in paid market research. Join the Opinion Harvester panel and you will get between £10 for taking a short online survey or up to £200 for more in-depth research - www.opinionharvester.com  LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Louise Urquhart talks about her family farm in Aberdeenshire, challenges with soil and sheep metabolism, getting started with pigs and direct selling, Louise's Farm Kitchen, and the crowdfunding campaign she recently ran to start producing free range broiler hens. All this, and much more!   Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Bart van de Ven is one of my favourite people to follow on social media. Listen as we talk about emigrating to New Zealand from Holland, settling in to Kiwi life, his journey along the dairy farming ladder, mental health, and the hilarious and honest videos that he uses to shares his farm life. All this, and much more. #Dishes    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

John Cherry talks about his journey into regenerative farming, direct drilling, herbal leys, mob grazing, and of course Groundswell! This year's event takes place on 23/24th June and we hear all out the event, how it got started, and where it's going. All this, and lots more!    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

If you haven't read 'Native: Life in a vanishing landscape' by Patrick Laurie yet, then what are you waiting for?  An absolute pleasure to talk about Galloway cattle, curlews and conservation, writing and farming, and all things in-between with the man himself..    CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Gillian Dixon talks to me about her farm in Devon where she and her husband Ian have several different traditional breeds of animals, direct sell meat and fleeces to their customers, do all kinds of brilliant environmental works, and offer training course to budding smallholders and farmers. All this, and much more..      CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Shane McAuliffe farms pigs - lots of pigs! Listen as we talk about his family business in County Kerry in South West Ireland, and how it's progressed over the years since his grandfather started it, the perception vs reality debate when it comes to farming on a large scale, dealing with online abuse and negativity, and the range of environmental work he's done on his farms. All this and lots more!     CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Journalist, YouTuber, podcaster and now book author Katie Quinn talks all about her early life working in New York, the traumatic brain injury that changed her life, how she began to look at food differently as a result of this, and how that led her on a food adventure that resulted in her brilliant new book 'Cheese, Wine & Bread'    CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsors:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - www.lgseeds.co.uk

Ben Andrews talks about his organic mixed farming operation in North Herefordshire farming beef cattle, cereal crops and a range of different vegetables. We also compare notes on being tenant famers and the challenges of flooding, discuss our love/ hate relationships with social media, and talk about what it was like to grow up gay in a farming community and how he came to be involved with the brilliant Agrespect.  www.agrespect.com    CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsor:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk LG is a brand of plant breeders Limagrain; a farmer owned co-op dedicated to developing new varieties of arable, forage & amenity seeds for farmers and growers - lgseeds.co.uk

The man in the pink shirt, Ian Pigott, talks about his time trading tropical oils in London, converting to organic production, regenerative agriculture and what it means to him, farm education and Open Farm Sunday, writing for Farmers Weekly, and a SHOCKING cricket based confession!    CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsor:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk

Geraint Davies talks about farming with nature, farm succession, testicular cancer (NHS porn is rubbish), being a hedge addict, rural communities, and lots more..    CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsor:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk

Sally-Ann Spence LOVES Dung Beetles! Find out all about these amazing little creatures, what makes them so damn cool, and how she's helping other farmers to realise their potential to improve their grazing and soils..      CHECK OUT eatfarmnow.com FOR LOADS MORE AMAZING FARMING AND FOOD-RELATED PODCASTS, BLOGS & VLOGS.    Podcast Sponsor:  NFU Cymru - for more information please visit www.nfu-cymru.org.uk