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About Ben Eagle

Ben Eagle is Head of Podcasts at RuralPod Media which produces farming and rural based podcasts including Meet the Farmers and Rural Business Focus.

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Jeremy Buxton: From Eurosport presenter to farmer

In this episode of Meet the Farmers podcast Ben speaks to Norfolk farmer and former Eurosport TV presenter Jeremy Buxton….

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Covid-19 and rewilding – chats with an Exmoor farmer

In this episode Ben looks back on the farming news and speaks to Exmoor farmer Robin Milton. They chat about…

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Meet the Farmers heads to the Euston Estate

In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben speaks to Matthew Hawthorne who is farm manager at the Euston Estate…

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Meet the Farmers Podcast talks dairy and technology

In the latest episode of the Meet the Farmers podcast, Ben Eagle gives a run down of all the latest…

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Meet the Farmers: Anna Bryant, Will Evans and Ally Hunter-Blair

Meet the Farmers has a new format and here is the first new episode of the brand new show, hosted…

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Talking mental health in farming and on the railways

This conversation with Dan Goodwin, who was Suffolk Agricultural Apprentice of the Year in 2018, and Steve Loeber, who works…

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How ‘care farming’ is helping people from Yorkshire to Finland

Ben meets all round great guy Robin Asquith who farms in Yorkshire and is the Social Farm Manager for the…

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How ‘companion cropping’ can improve our soils

In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben travels to Kent to meet Andy Howard who has been experimenting in…

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Meeting EatFarmNow co-founder, farmer and podcaster Will Evans

Ben meets host of Rock and Roll Farming, mixed farmer and co-founder of eatfarmnow – Will Evans.

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From sheep to oil pressing, Welsh farmer Llyr Jones does it all

Ben travels to north Wales to meet Llyr Jones who runs multiple enterprises including 1500 sheep, 30 cattle, 16000 laying…

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Welsh farmer Gareth Wyn Jones on ‘living the dream’

Gareth Wyn Jones is a well known UK farmer and presenter. Ben met him on his farm and spoke to…

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Farming beef holistically, with Rob Harvard

Ben meets holistic management specialist and beef farmer Rob Havard in Worcestershire. Rob talks to Ben about a wider range…

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The ‘farminfluencer’: Meet the Instagramming farmer

When Ben met Ben. Tenant veg and beef farmer Ben Andrews, in Herefordshire, has thousands of followers on Instagram, where…

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Farming voices: The future of the Welsh uplands

Ben talks to Welsh hill farmer Emlyn Roberts about the future of the hills and his farm near Dolgellau.

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Being first-time farmers: Katie and James’s story

On the next stop of his road trip, Ben Eagle meets first-generation farmers James and Katie Allen who farm sheep…

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Meet the farmer – nature award winner, Jonty Brunyee

I visited Jonty Brunyee who is a National Trust tenant in the heart of the Cotswolds, at Conygree Farm, farming…