In this episode of Meet the Farmers Ben heads to Wales and meets Tom Jones, a sheep and beef farmer from Montgomerishire in mid Wales. Tom has also been a contract shepherd and shearer and is a livestock focus farmer writer for Farmers Weekly.

Meet the Farmers Episode 95 - Forward Thinking Sheep Farming

Ben meets Cambridgeshire farmer Tom Clarke and they talk about how Tom's life was turned upside down when his father died and he was launched in at the deep end, heading back to manage the family farm in the Fens. They also talk sugar, soil, nature and much more.

Meet the Farmers podcast - episode 96 - Horizontal Farming with Tom Clarke

Ben meets Alex Heffron, a first generation dairy farmer who farms with his wife Sam in Pembrokeshire.

Meet the Farmers - episode 97 - The Ups and Downs of First Time Farming

Ben meets Jane Craigie from Jane Craigie Marketing, a marketing, media and communications business, based in Scotland and focused on the rural sector and food and farming businesses. Jane is a Chartered Marketer with over 25 years’ experience in marketing within the agri-food sector. She is a member of the executive board of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and the council of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists (and a former Chair). She also co-founded the Rural Youth Project.

Meet the Farmers - episode 98 - How to Talk about Farming and Other Stories with Jane Craigie

Ben meets Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley. Joe is also a trustee of the Henry Plumb Foundation. He’s on the steering committee for the East of England Farming Conference. He’s the NFU branch chair for North West Leicestershire and the NFU county Vice-Chair for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire & Rutland. You might also know him as a regular columnist for Farmer’s Weekly, Farm Business, Farmers Guardian, Agronomist & Arable Farmer and NFU Countryside. In 2020 he was awarded the NFU’s Meurig Raymond Award.