ChewintheCud Podcast

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Sarah Bolt, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Richard Tunnicliffe, Analytical Services Manager and Isabelle England, Technical Account Manager both from Trouw Nutrition.As usual we start with a brief over view both of our guests backgrounds to get them to where they are today.Then we move on to today's main topic which is silage sampling. What happens, over the next twenty four hours, once your sample is put in the post to receiving the ...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Anthony Marsh, Director at Hoofcount LtdAs usual we start with a brief over view of Anthony's background and how he started Hoofcount.We then move on to today's main topic which is the development of the PediVue, from Hoofcount. The product was recently Winner of the "Best New Product" competition at the recent UK Dairy Day in September.This follows on from our podcast in May 2024, where we...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Sarah Bolt, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Neil Greggor, Solutions Manager at Viking Genetics UK.As Neil's background is familiar to our regular listeners he gives us a brief overview of his career before we move to our main topic of this podcast.Using data to make your breeding decisions.Neil discusses how it doesn't matter your type of system, your type of cow, using all the data you have available, be it pedigrees, milk recording o...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Neil Groom, General Manager at Grainseed.Like usual we start with a brief introduction from Neil about how he started in the industry to get to where he is today.Then we move on to today's topic and start with a brief overview of the trials currently being run at Wiltshire College & University Centre Lackham, not only for DEFRA & NIAB but also the MGA (Maize Growers Association).We ...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Sarah Bolt & Becky Miles, two of the co-founders of Women in Dairy.With Sarah being a returning guest we move straight on to Becky and ask her about her background, and how she got to the multiple job titles she has today!We then move on to discuss the ten years that "Women in Dairy" has been in existence, the hows, wheres & why is started. The successes they've seen and the upcomin...