R2Kast - People in Food and Farming/All In
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 68 minutes
- Episodes
- 383
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
R2Kast 63 - Jane Strawhorn talks about her career as a paralegal and her life as SAYFC national VC
Jane, from a farm never saw her career on farms and found her way into her profession as a paralegal after finding herself work in various jobs and for that matter locations. In her very minimal spar…
01:46:15 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
R2Kast 62 - Colin Currie talks about farming on island and his birthday auction market challenge
Colin, otherwise known as my old man was born on the Isle of Arran, has lived in the same house at Bridge Farm his whole life and has over the course of the last 60 years added to the farm on various…
00:59:11 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
R2Kast 61 - Lorraine Turnbull talks smallholding in France, cider making and becoming an author
Lorraine has tried a few things in her time, whether that is the police or buying a ‘swanky mansion’ in France! Truth is neither of them were for her and her partner. They have had small holdings in …
01:26:10 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
R2Kast 60 - Karl Franklin (pretend farmer) talks choosing farming over cheffing and droughts
Karl tells his story about working up to head chef at a young age before realising it wasn’t for him and within 4 years working up from nothing to almost owning 100 breeding ewes. He documents his st…
01:00:46 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
R2Kast 59 - Maria and Gordon talk their pathways into farming as well as Wee Broon Hens.
Maria and Gordon both come from non-farming backgrounds and after studying different courses at different times and by chance finding themselves working together at a laying unit have now progressed …
01:54:52 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
R2Kast 58 - Thatfitagvocate (Andrea) on farming in a drought, hormone implants, GMO and future
Andrea Flemming is not the first generation to take the reigns of her family farm in Minnesota! Running an arable and beef unit and with a previous interest in veterinary we talk about how to farm in…
01:21:55 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
R2Kast 57 - Colin McKinnon talks getting into contracting, Claas apprenticeships and SAYFC
Colin, from Dumfriesshire went to Barony College as a Claas apprentice and in the years since has climbed almost as high as he possibly can on the Claas mechanic ladder. His ladder climbing in SAYFC …
01:18:31 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
R2Kast 56 - Brian and Mandy talk producing ocean spray cranberries, their own brand and more!
Based in Canada, Brian and Mandy produce cranberries for Ocean Spray as well as their own bog brand! An interesting chat as always but I was so out my depth…as are the cranberries!😉. Enjoy!
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01:18:04 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
R2Kast 55 - Katie Shanahan on Charolais sheep, showing, TikTok and teaching Irish dancing!
If you have TikTok you’ve probably seen Katie’s videos pop up on your type as she has about 120k followers on there! Here farming story is just as interesting as her TikTok though having just found h…
00:58:11 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
R2Kast 54 - Charlotte Ashley talks artistry, converting to a dairy robot system and TikTok
Charlotte has 90k followers on TikTok, and posts a lot of REAL posts on there from an education perspective with a large hint of humour! Enjoy another great episode!
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01:05:15 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
R2Kast 53 - Jane Harrower on poultry in the UK, showing birds, Young Farmers, pig racing and more!
Jane will often have in excess of 1500 birds either ready for sale, getting ready or newly bought and sells the country over. This is all while running a farm as well as touring county and national s…
00:52:51 |
Fri 05 Aug 2022
R2Kast 52 - Amy Wilkinson talks about farming on marshes, travelling and future plans!
Amy had on Facebook go viral 18 months ago with over 55 thousand shares and 40 thousand reactions promoting British produce and that is very much not all she does! She works with the Farmers Guardian…
01:16:27 |
Fri 29 Jul 2022
R2Kast 51 - Andrew of Coull Farm on Islay talk beef, sheep, barley, rye and Bruichladdie whisky!
Andrew and Sophie contract farm where Andrew grew up rearing 1000 head of sheep, 80 head of cattle and the best part of 40 hectares of barley and a small amount of rye all for Bruichladdie whisky! A …
00:58:05 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
R2Kast 50 - Emma Gray and Ewan Irvine from this Farming Life talk tenancies and TV.
EPISODE 50 is here!! Insane to me that we’ve done 50 episodes and it’s a big one for a big occasion! We talk about TV, getting into farming, sheepdogs, diversification and so much more! Emma burnt di…
01:36:00 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
R2Kast 49 - Kathryn Dick on working for the Scottish Farmer, SAYFC, RHET and more!
At on 23 Kathryn has completed a HND in Agriculture, so far been a journalist for 3 years and is a vice chair of the 3 S’s YF club! Learn more in this weeks episode!
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01:16:04 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
R2Kast 48 - Nicola (Livestock_Farmher) on taking on the family farm, awards and TV!
Nicola has fitted a LOT into her short career in the industry! Creating a career for herself, being nominated for awards and various TV appearances amongst much more!
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00:45:31 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
R2Kast 47 - Saiorse or Life at Bancran Road talks balancing work and farming, camogie and renovation
Saiorse and Aidan farm in Ireland all while both have full time jobs as well! Hear Saiorse’s story about moving from a home farm with little interest to another one where she is actively involved, ha…
00:54:26 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
R2Kast 46 - Gemma Lane talking about selling her own Charcuterie, getting into farming and Instagram
Gemma isn’t from farming and after hearing farmers discuss the impact of Brexit she decided to get involved! She studied environmental science and now farms selling her own produce the UK wide.
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01:12:03 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
R2Kast 45 - Crawfords Farm on uni in mechanical engineering, mixed arable, flowers and YouTube!
Crawford comes from a mixed arable farm which has diversified in various ways and he documents it all on YouTube! A good chat with a nice guy! Enjoy!
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01:02:57 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
R2Kast 44 - Abbie and Andy of A+A Livestock talk about getting into farm, regeneration and much more
Abbie and Andy had literally no background in farming and are now working up to a very respectable enterprise. A great story for all to listen to and show you that you can, with hard work get into th…
01:16:08 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
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