#660 - British Food, Farming Standards & Pesticides

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Ben Coomber

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How good is the quality of British food? It often gets a bad rap in some circles, but I feel this is unfounded, as it seems we have very high quality welfare standards. To debate this I talk to an Agronomist, Conor Campbell, who works with farmers to advise on their land, yield, which pesticides and fertilisers to use, and has a unique insight into our food standards compared to other countries.

Want more info on UK food and farming? Search for 'The NFU' who have many fact sheets on UK farming practices.

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0:00.0	everyone been able to radio hope you're having an awesome day now do you remember this
0:07.7	probably would have been about three years ago now it's definitely pre-COVID I sat down
0:12.7	with a dairy farmer called George from Eatling they also own a bigger cheese company and we
0:18.5	had a chat about all things dairy we talked about farming we talked a bit about our food
0:24.4	network and off the back of that someone got in touch with me and I actually at the time tried
0:31.1	to be quite proactive in trying to find someone else to come on the podcast and even George
0:37.6	tried to help me as well to kind of just expand that conversation because we obviously focused
0:41.9	quite a bit on dairy but I wanted to go into different areas of farming so anyway someone reached
0:48.1	out to me can't remember where probably Instagram or who knows and this individual they'll explain
0:54.8	what it is in a minute is an agronomist and I was like oh what is that and we got talking and
1:01.4	we started to talk about farming industry and I was like got come on the podcast do you want to
1:05.9	have a chat so here it is we're going to talk about all things farming our food network organic versus
1:12.9	non-organic food kind of just open our eyes to our kind of food network a bit more and what
1:19.8	British farming means compared to other countries Connor Campbell welcomes the show hey you Ben
1:26.3	thanks for having me well thank you for reaching out and saying yeah I'll call you podcasters
1:31.0	have a chat because it's not this is not something you would usually do no I think this is probably
1:37.7	the second podcast I've ever done in my life and no it's not something we do but I think it's
1:43.5	something that is you know we should I should be doing you know promoting agriculture and what we
1:50.1	do and trying to explain what we do so it's yeah pleasure to be here so what is it that you do
1:57.4	and what is an agronomist question I get asked asked all the time anytime I go to weddings people
2:04.0	say what do you do I'm an agronomist and that I dread to try and explain what it is that my job
2:09.1	involves but essentially at its core my role is to advise farmers on how to get the best out of
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