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Andrew Jones and Sarah Bolt bring you kitchen table conversations for the dairy industry, produced in the South West of England and listened to around the world. Now in its fifth year, each episode Andrew and Sarah are joined by a specialist from inside or outside the industry to discuss the practical and technical topics that matter to dairy farmers, advisers, and other industry professionals. They want to make you think about what you are doing — and ask yourself whether it could be done differently.
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A clamp covered in mould may carry very little toxin, while feed that looks perfectly clean can carry a significant load. Mycotoxins are hard to see, hard to test for and easy to underestimate. Peter van der Vegt, Global Lead Technical Service at Volac International Limited, and Amanda Clements, Key Account Manager for Central England and Wales at Volac, joined Andrew and Sarah to explain what they are, where they come from and what they do to the dairy cow. Amanda explained that moulds produ...
A club formed in 1946 to get the latest research into farmers’ hands is still doing exactly that. Matt Gue, Chair of the British Cattle Breeders Club (BCBC), joined Andrew and Sarah to explain what the club stands for and why beef and dairy breeders keep learning from each other. Matt is a vet whose family are behind the well-known Huddlestone Holsteins in West Sussex, and he was clear that the conference is for farmers: research that can be used on farm now, not pie in the sky. The 2027 conf...
There is no muck and magic behind Carbon Farmer of the Year 2025. Stuart Rogers, Partner at Longmoor Farm Ltd, runs a high-yielding Holstein herd in North Dorset on a Duchy of Cornwall tenancy, and the farm was named Farm Carbon Toolkit's Carbon Farmer of the Year in 2025. Stuart and Rob Purdew, Farm Carbon & Soils Advisor at Farm Carbon Toolkit, joined Andrew and Sarah to explain how a herd averaging around 11,000 litres has brought its footprint down to 0.8 kg CO2e per kg of fat and pro...
A year on from one of ChewintheCud's most talked-about episodes, Ian Garner, Head of R&D at Antler Bio, returns to take epigenetics from theory into practice on real dairy farms. This time the conversation turns to application. John Walsh, Director at Friars Moor Livestock Health and a dairy farmer running 250 cows through four robots, joins to share how his practice used the ADOPT grant to fund EpiHerd testing across three of its own vets' farms. He walks through what the process actuall...
Most farmers know lameness is a problem. Far fewer know what it's actually costing them, and the 2026 Stride survey suggests that gap is exactly what's holding the industry back. Andrew and Sarah are joined by Matt Dobbs, Vet & CEO of HerdVision, and Ian Lindsay, Business Development Director at LKL Services Ltd, to unpack the results of the newly released Stride survey on UK dairy mobility. With 173 producers responding on behalf of around 55,000 cows, the data lays out where the industr...
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