Season 4

This is the first of a series of monthly episodes called AGRI-TURF AGENDA , an audio magazine with some of the current news stories of interest or relevance to the land-based engineering community. This February 2024 issue ca...

What is the media today? It used to be newspapers or magazines - or broadcast media, television and radio. Today, anyone can be a ‘journalist’ spreading news, views, comment and opinion through social media – that is largel...

Dan Schultz describes himself as an agribusiness psychotherapist - an eye catching description if there ever was one Without the need for a ‘patients’ couch, Dan helps agri-tech companies around the world think differently ab...

I've taken extracts from Inside Agri-Turf episodes over the past four years, featuring some of the women who have successfully carved a career in land-based engineering so helping to counter the image of it being a male domin...

Today I'm introducing a new show IN THE MIX. During the past three year over 120 guests have featured on the Inside Agri-Turf podcast. All have had tales to tell, advice to pass on and experiences to relate that are relevant ...

Small businesses (SMEs) are the heartbeat of the UK economy with almost 400,00 founded each year by those with a desire to follow their dream. But who supports the founders? In this episode I talk to Ollie Austen, co-founder ...

In the first of a two-part episode on staffing, PAUL HARRIS of Real Success Ltd provided down-to-earth and practical advice on RECRUITING the right staff. He advised employers not to panic when faced with sudden staffing nee...

Possibly the biggest challenge facing businesses today is recruiting the most suitable staff, and then taking every step necessary to ensure that they stay in the company or organisation. In a two-part episode on Recruitment ...

Andrew Findley is an experienced competitor in ultra endurance running events ranging from 200 km races in the 50 degree heat of the Sahara to a 300 km race across the French Alps in the biting cold - whilst climbing the equi...

In this episode, St John Craner, connects the two important elements of The Art of the Sales Conversation, that of listening, and then asking the right questions at the right time and in the right way. He says "I think it's r...

AriensCo, the US parent company of British lawn tractor maker, Countax have announced that the production of both Countax and Westwood tractors at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire will cease by the end of 2023 –the Great Haseley ...

In the first part of his series of The Customer is always Right, Dan Pratt , founder of DAP Consultancy talked about different types of customers, their behaviour, and ways of successfully diffusing difficult situations. In t...

The recent New Scientist Live event in London, provided the farming and food producing industry with a wonderful opportunity to present its credentials to a largely non-rural audience - and to children. Reflecting on the even...

' The Customer is Always Right ' was a mantra instilled into staff by Gordon Selfridge when he opened his landmark London department store in the early 1990s. Does that still hold true for businesses in the 21st century? Dan ...

The first episode of The Agri-Turf Academy Show , a new podcast to complement the Inside Agri-Turf shows which have notched up over 10,000 downloads and featured more than 100 guests from across the land-based engineering sec...

To complement this Inside Agri-Turf podcast , I am delighted to announce the creation of a new show. The Agri-Turf Academy will focus on people not products. It will publish episodes of relevance to anyone working in, or asso...

Described as the World’s Greatest Festival of Ideas and Discoveries, New Scientist Live (NSL) will this year have Farming and Food Production as its largest feature. The 2023 edition of NSL will be held from 7-9 October at Ex...

"The greatest thing since the Industrial revolution" are amongst the opening words by Wesley Baker, Founder and CEO of Canterbury AI. In this podcast, Wesley provides an overview of the likely impact that Artificial Intellige...

This episode is another in a series I'm calling The Franchise Jigsaw. And who knew that the collective name for a jigsaw enthusiast is a dissectologist ? My guest is David Hart , Managing Director of Kubota UK and President B...

A year after first publishing a comprehensive listing of the UK's Biggest Farming Dealers ranked by turnover exclusively for the Farmers Weekly , I catch up again with freelance agricultural journalist Peter Hill to deep dive...

After a summer break, Inside Agri-Turf podcast returns for the Autumn, Winter, Spring season. Here are excerpts of episodes already recorded and news of an exciting addition for the Agri-Turf community. Forthcoming episodes a...