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The No 1 Pasture based farming podcast in the Forgandenny parish. Join the search for 1) better profits for cattle and sheep; 2) top (to middling to absent) banter. Most amateur podcast on the internet thingy. Monthly.
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- Sep 2, 20262h 18m
Dallas Mount
HOT DAWG! This was fun ... and also informative. We talked about the Planning for Profit course alot. There are more courses coming this Autumn. See https://www.planningforprofit.org/ if you fancy knowing more. Sam Charlton is really helpful and on occasions, quite fun. Both Louis Theroots and Jeremy Parkson were suggesting you join The Pasture Pod's Patreon thingy: patreon/thepasturepod. Annual subscriptions are also available and they are cheaper pro rata but maybe try it first because you might find it excruciating.
- Feb 19, 20263h 13m
Claire Whittle
Claire can be found on Instagram as dr_dowhittle The Regenerative Vet website: https://theregenvet.co.uk/ The Carbon Calling Panel session with Claire, Nikki, Amy and Sarah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3APZqJpHwbQ&t=3007s Become a Patron on Patreon ("It's quite good actually"): patreon.com/thepasturepod Farmax website: https://www.farmax.co.nz/ Cows and Effect on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cows-and-effect/id1823193312 Cows and Effect on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/32Bo5Rie5F8mqXzm7Fgt3z
- Jul 29, 20253h 47m
Duncan Morrison
Working Cows Episode on leased cows: https://workingcows.net/ep-063-aaron-berger-leased-land-and-cow-herds/
- Jul 3, 20251h 18m
Introducing (another) Cows and Effect. Episode 1. Five billion, there's no snakes in Ireland and an upside down graph.
A blatant misuse of the Pasture Pod platform means I'm plugging this Cows and Effect project again. Episode 1 dives into the science with an Irish research paper that looks at the yields of multi species pastures (along with the various different plant species that go into them) at several levels of Nitrogen (including zero). Which grasses work best in different systems? Why bother with Plantain and Chicory? Which plants drive yield? There's some chat about ewes and Red Clover and there's a smell under the table. Link to the main paper Moloney et al, 2020. http://archive.sciendo.com/IJAFR/ijafr.2020.59.issue-1/ijafr-2020-0002/ijafr-2020-0002.pdf Links to the other two Moloney papers in the trilogy. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041764?seq=1 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041763 Link to the Egan et al 2025 paper on plantain hoovering up nitrate in the soil. This may be partially behind a paywall, but the key bits are available. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880924004948 Link to Mustonen et al 2014 which is the study on the effects of feeding red clover silage to ewes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175173111400161X?via%3Dihub Link to the Innovative Farmers trial on ewes and red clover. https://www.innovativefarmers.org/media/l00oqr1t/mating-sheep-on-red-clover-final-report.pdf Link to an early UK study into red clover and ewe fertility; Newton and Betts 1973. Still behind a pay wall, but you can see the abstract without paying. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-agricultural-science/article/abs/effects-of-red-clover-trifolium-pratense-var-redhead-white-clover-trifolium-repens-var-s-100-or-perennial-ryegrass-lolium-perenne-var-s-23-on-the-reproductive-performance-of-sheep/DBE300E13E0D8D81BF0B6D00ED9B3E90 Link to a review paper/report not mentioned in the podcast which is Marley et al 2011. This is an IBERS report. https://projectblue.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/Research%20Papers/Beef%20&%20Lamb/effects_of_legumes_on_ewe_and_cow_fertility_review_-_final_report_20jul11.pdf
- Jun 26, 202548 min
Introducing Cows and Effect: The Prologue; contract work, wild animals and he knows who he is.
Link to this one and it's show notes: Cows and Effect: Prologue Link to next episode: Cows and Effect: Episode 1
- Sep 23, 20242h 1m
Elaine Froese
Elaine is coming to England at the invitation of AHDB with workshops between 21st October 2024 and 30th October. See: Discuss the Undiscussabull Not that I'm pushing this at all .... but .... Patreon link is: The Pasture Pod's Patreon link
- Jul 17, 20243h 1m
Mat Boley
Many moons and almost an equal amount of suns ago, our anti-hero MC Swardstick set off on his pilgrimage to find a mythical being. A dairy farmer who didn't work 90 hours a week. He found this creature and he was well cool and interesting. They spoke for almost 3 hours and MC left with his sound recorder full of wisdom. Unfortuneately, MC was very lazy and no where near committed enough and didn't do anything with the recording for a painfully long time. Today represents the end of the constipation and the episode has come out. The End.
- Jul 12, 20232h 18m
Arron Nerbas
A Canadian themed episode to bring "Season 2" to an end. Arron came over to the UK in January 2023 and spoke to loads of people over the course of a week. I went to see him at the AHDB meeting in Northumberland at George Burrell's and it was such a refreshing and positive experience. Even though he has such a different environment to contend with, the principle of system first is such a powerful thing. He popped into Culteuchar, met Mo, stayed the night (not in that way) and was polite about my handful of heifers and sheep. Hope you enjoy it. If you do, Arron is starting a new podcast of his own with Amy Hughes called Think Outside the Fence. 1st August 2023 release, I think. First guest is me and the interview has happened. I don't think I'm catastrophising but looking back on it I am definitely getting Gerald Ratner / Holly Willoughby vibes, so this might be the last Pasture Pod before I'm cancelled.
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