The podcast for farmers, agronomists and anyone else involved in growing pulses and vegetable legumes. We cover market updates, practical and technical information, and interview those involed in farming, buying and processing the crop. Presented by Ben Pike, Matt Webster and Emily Scaife on behalf of the Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO).
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike speaks to Dr Becky Howard about the recent confirmation of the presence of pea bruchid in a UK-grown commercial pea crop for the first time.
Ben and Becky d…
In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, Matt Webster and Emily Scaife speak to PGRO's experts from the 2025 Pulse Open Day, discussing the various crops, projects and trials on show including the…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Matt Webster and Emily Scaife speak to Simon Jackson, Field Technical Manager at Syngenta, about the company's work in developing biostimulants for the pulse market…
The latest Pulse Market Update from the Processors and Growers Research Organisation.
In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we speak to the PGRO team from their stand at the 2025 Cereals, speaking to Pulse Pioneer Bryony Graham about her involvement in the NCS Project, Erin Matl…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike and Emily Scaife speak to Tom Astill, Market Development Representative from Bayer, and Dr Becky Howard from PGRO about Bayer's work on crop protection and…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike and Emily Scaife are joined by Iain Ford, Business Development Manager for Agricultural Solutions at BASF to discuss the newly released Pea Growth Guide, h…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the latest pulse market update for April 2025.
In this episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the latest Pulse Market Update for March 2025, in which the UK's pulse markets have continued to be quiet since the turn of the year, and overall …
In this Supply Chain Focus edition of Inside the Pod, we speak to Mark Herriman, Head of Sales and Corporate Operations at PheroSyn, a start-up company spun out of Rothamsted Research supporting a ne…
In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the From Soya to Sustainability conference held in January by the NCS Project partners.
Ben Pike speaks to a variety of speakers and atten…
In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we look at the 2025 Descriptive List for Pulses which was unveiled by PGRO at CropTec 2024.
We speak to PGRO Chief Technical Officer Dr Chris Judge who talk…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike takes a look at the highlights from this year's Pea and Bean Conference, run by the British Growers Association, which took place in Lincolnshire earlier t…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, we speak to Agrii Agronomist Todd Jex who has recently achieved a bean crop yield of over 8-tonnes per hectare on one of his farms, an exciting development that we …
In this episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the Pulse Market Update for October 2024, with guest pulse trader Andy Bury from Frontier Agriculture giving his views on the latest market moveme…
In this bitesized episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike looks at the latest Pulse Market Update for September 2024, looking at the latest market trends and the outlooks for the rest of the year and int…
In this episode of Inside the Pod, Matt Webster speaks to PGRO Technical Officer Will Evans who leads PGRO's research on lentils, looking at how viable lentil growth is in the UK and the benefits of …
In this episode of the Inside the Pod, Keith Costello returns to the podcast to give his outlook and advice on the harvesting period for peas, drawing on what he's seen from fields all over the count…
In this Supply Chain Focus edition of Inside the Pod, Matt Webster speaks to Anna-Sophie Deetjen, co-founder of Morrow, a company who's venture into a pulse-based coffee is looking to secure the futu…
In this Supply Chain Focus edition of Inside the Pod, Matt Webster speaks to Emily Williams, Managing Director of Novo Farina, about their company - the only UK manufacturer with the capabilities to …