The Crop It Like It's Hot Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Agriculture is both a hard industry to recruit in and a notoriously hard industry to get into if you’re not from a farming background. With the UK facing a cost of living crisis, the prospect of supporting good employees may be daunting, but there are many things farm businesses can be doing to help retain and attract good staff. In this employment-focused podcast, Alice Dyer finds out how to be both a prominent employee and employer, with tips to stand out from the crowd to continuing professional development and training options. 

Speakers: Dave Back, labour auditor, DB Compliance.George Mallender, recruitment consultant, MorePeople.Jade Prince, business development manager, Basis.

The integration of cover crops have been a key ingredient for many farmers in improving the health of their soils and their overall farming system.

But they don’t come without their challenges, and ‘getting them to work’ isn’t always as straightforward as it seems.

To find out what we’re doing wrong and how to get more out of them tune into the latest episode of the Crop It Like It’s Hot podcast.

From nutrient lockup to yield penalties and why destruction method, not just timing is key to success, this podcast offers a crash course in all things cover crops from three experienced experts.

Speakers: 

Ed Brown, head of agroecology at Hutchinsons.

Richard Barnes, sales manager at Kings Crops.

Angus Gowthorpe, Yorkshire farmer.

This episode sees Farmers Guardian arable specialist Ash Ellwood discuss how one farmer has introduced sheep into their arable rotation, what role data can play on farm and finds out the latest on the urea legislation changes, all recorded from The CropTec Show in Stoneleigh.

Speakers - Jo Franklin (Arable & sheep farmer), Tom Macbride (Yagro) , Robert and Will Ingham (Glasson Fertilisers)

Being a farmer comes with the privilege of being a custodian of the land, and a love of the countryside and wildlife is why many farmers do what they do.  In this episode of Crop It Like It’s Hot, the Arable Farming team speak to three conservationists about how arable farms can become a haven for wildlife. From hedgerow management tips to habitat creation, and encouraging more beneficial insects, there is plenty that growers can do to improve the environmental credentials of their farms.