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Making Farming and the Veterinary sector something we can all be involved in! – Guest post by Navaratnam Partheeban

Partheeban Navaratnam is Senior Lecturer in Livestock Production at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. He recently wrote an opinion piece in Farmers Weekly calling on us all to break down the ethnic barriers in farming and so I asked him to embellish on the subject on thinkingcountry. Agriculture and the veterinary profession are very importantContinueContinue reading “Making Farming and the Veterinary sector something we can all be involved in! – Guest post by Navaratnam Partheeban”

‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 26 – Teleri Fielden

I’m really excited to introduce this special podcast episode to you which was produced in collaboration with Matt Williams and the Wild Voices Project podcast. We visited Teleri Fielden (@TeleriFielden), a first generation farmer, who won a Wales Young Farmers Clubs and National Trust scholarship to run a farm in north west Wales for threeContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 26 – Teleri Fielden”

‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 25 – The East of England Farming Conference 2018

This is a special episode of the podcast covering my recent visit to the East of England Farming Conference at the East of England Showground near Peterborough. The show features Neil Parish MP, Emily Norton from Savills, farmer and Conference Chair Tom Martin and Suffolk farmer Brian Barker.

‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 24 – John Pawsey

Episode 24 of Meet the Farmers features Suffolk arable and sheep farmer John Pawsey (@hanslope on twitter). John is well known in the farming world for being innovative and his organic mixed farming system is testimony to this, combining the very best of new and traditional knowledge. He is also an accomplished musician, as youContinueContinue reading “‘Meet the Farmers’ – episode 24 – John Pawsey”

An Interview with Icelandic Sheep Farmer and Instagrammer Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík

If you have an Instagram account and have any sort of interest in the countryside or farming (as you are on thinkingcountry the latter can be assumed) you may well have heard of Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík who now has over 35,000 followers on her ‘farmlifeiceland’ page. The vast majority of her photos are of sheep asContinueContinue reading “An Interview with Icelandic Sheep Farmer and Instagrammer Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík”