Ep 12 - The 22nd Floor
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Covid-19 has us back together discussing how this has affected us as a family, as farmers, and as an industry as a whole.
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Ep 11 - Curriculum is hard to say
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In today’s episode, we talk with Clare Peltzer another Nuffield scholar we both have had the pleasure of hosting at our farm last fall.
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Ep 10 - A Bigger Pie
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In this episode, Mark interviews Richard Heath, a former Nuffield scholar who works as Executive Director of Australia Farm Institute. A timely conversation that also touched on Covid-19 and the effects on agriculture, and where there may be some gaps in us relying heavily on a just-in-time delivery mechanism.
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Ep 9 - The Royal Brownie
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We had the good fortune of sitting down with Corrigan Sowman, a dairy farmer who along with his family, run Uruwhenua Farms Ltd in beautiful Golden Bay.
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Ep 8 - Hither & Yon
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Mark got to visit our good friend Richard Leask from McLaren Vale who runs Leask Agri and along with his brother Malcolm, Hither & Yon.
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Ep 7 - Disruptors from Down Under
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In this episode we head down under... that's right.
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Ep 6 - OK Boomer...
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Today, we sat down with our kids. Living with a couple GenZ's can be pretty rewarding, humbling and eye-opening... IF WE LISTEN TO THEM!
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Ep 5 - Why Mexicans don't drink Molson
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In this episode, we head to Guelph Ontario to sit with a friend and mentor Larry Martin.
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Ep 4 - Everyone starts at zero
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Can digital marketing be a gamechanger for your business?
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Ep 3 - Chasing Unicorns
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In this episode, we head to Moosomin, Saskatchewan to have a conversation with one of Mark’s favourite farmers.
info_outlineIn this episode, we are back together and BOTH in New Zealand!
We had the good fortune of sitting down with Corrigan Sowman, a dairy farmer who along with his family, run Uruwhenua Farms Ltd in beautiful Golden Bay.
Mark met Corrigan last spring at their first Nuffield conference, and have since remained good friends and colleagues.
Dairy farming in New Zealand has changed dramatically over the last decade, bringing both opportunities and challenges to those involved. Social license being a front runner of these challenges which prompted Corrigan's topic.
One that began as trying to solve a technical problem, digging deeper to realize it's more of social one.
One that perhaps we as farmers have been predisposed to over generations of high stakes, small margins, uncertainty and fast change, all leading to what he now sees as social judgment.
His project and this interview blew us away.
Are we as farmers equipped to deal with social judgment?