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Ahead Of The Field

Ahead Of The Field

By: NFU Mutual
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Will Evans visits farms around the country to explore the subject of farming diversification. How are farmers creating new income streams and new business models? What challenges have they overcome and what do they think the big opportunities are? Stories and advice from those who have successfully diversified, as well as farming experts from NFU Mutual. For more detail, NFU Mutual’s full report on farming diversification is available here:

https://www.nfumutual.co.uk/farming/farming-diversification/

2025 NFU Mutual Economics
Episodes
  • Rare breeds and holidays lets at Owl Farm

    Rare breeds and holidays lets at Owl Farm
    Mar 30 2021

    Will meets Hayley Adkins and Ian Kemp who run Owl Farm. They chat about the challenges of keeping a number of rare breeds as pets and running a small farm, and offering holidays where guests are able to learn about the animals and farm.

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    18 mins
  • Speaking to Harry Metcalfe about a career in farming and cars

    Speaking to Harry Metcalfe about a career in farming and cars
    Mar 2 2021

    Will chats to Harry Metcalfe, a farmer in the Cotswolds who is also a successful motoring journalist having founded Evo Magazine. They talk about Harry’s early farming education and agricultural career, getting into cars and how he’s now using his skills in creating videos to try and help explain to a wider audience what happens on his farm day-to-day.

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    23 mins
  • Understanding and combatting dog attacks on sheep

    Understanding and combatting dog attacks on sheep
    Feb 2 2021

    There’s been a worrying spike in incidents of ‘Livestock Worrying’. To understand this better and talk about what’s being done to combat it Will talks to Rob Taylor from North Wales Police rural crime team, Debs Roberts, a Scottish farmer and co-founder of ‘Ladies who Lamb’ and NFU Mutual farming specialist, David Harrison.

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    30 mins
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