ChewintheCud Podcast

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...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Andrew Harrison, Technical Sales Manager, from I'Anson Brothers Ltd in Yorkshire.As usual we start by asking Andrew about his background, from a farm in Lancashire to where he is now with I'Anson Brothers.We then discuss the new feed mill that I'Anson Brothers are due to open about the time this podcast is released, and discussed the process of starting from scratch on a green field site an...

Your hosts Andrew Jones & Neil Greggor, based in the South West of England, are this time joined by Dr Jo Matthews, Technical Trials Manager, and Harley Brown-Keech, Area Sales Manager, from Germinal GB Limited at their Germinal Horizon site in Wiltshire.Initially we talk about the background of both our guests, and then briefly about the history of Germinal.We then talk to Jo & Harley about the whole process of developing the different varieties for the different species, how long it...