The Future of Farming and Agritech - AI Powered Insect Mini-farm

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today we're looking at one of the world's oldest sectors: Farming. Specifically how it's updating itself for the 21st Century. We spoke to Jo and Charles Mear, egg farmers from Full Circle Growing, who have been farming for over 2 decades and recently launched the UK's first AI-powered Insect mini-farm. Farming is inherently entrepreneurial and in this episode you'll hear terms that wouldn't be out of place at any UK startup: product-market fit, concerns on marketing, adapting to shifting consumer trends, thinking how to retain shelf space in supermarkets and more. The future of agriculture is tech - and there are so many examples of British entrepreneurship and innovation happening right across this sector. This episode is brought to you in partnership with the National Farmers Union, which represents over 50,000 farmers across the UK. I'm speaking at their annual conference and will have another episode from there in a few weeks about how British farmers are continuing to innovate. In this episode we discuss: Their routes into the world of work. What running the UK’s first AI-powered insect mini-farm actually looks like. What they thought when the opportunity for an AI-powered farm presented itself. What sort of sounds a chicken can make (really!). The challenges of running an AI farm. Impact on the quality of the livestock as a result. Why aren’t more farmers using it yet? How can listeners support British farmers? Farms becoming more self-reliant. Farming during the pandemic. Impact of Clarkson's farm in terms of people appreciating farming more. Working as a husband and wife team. The future of British farming. The role of the NFU. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday.You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politicsFor more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here.Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. Today, we're actually going to be looking at one
0:10.9	of the world's oldest sectors, that of farming and how it's updating itself for the 21st century.
0:17.6	Today's episode is with Charles and Jo Mir. They have been farming for the last two decades,
0:23.4	and Charles's grandparents have been on the farm since 1948. Farming is inherently
0:29.4	entrepreneurial, and like entrepreneurs, they are often buffeted by things out of their control,
0:35.6	such as the weather. It is worth watching Jeremy Clarkson's show on Amazon Prime, as he puts
0:41.7	the modern day challenges of farming in a way that only Jeremy Clarkson can. When I was looking
0:48.0	into the future of AgriTech, there were so many examples of British entrepreneurship and innovation
0:54.0	taking place. We're talking to Charles and Jo today because they are pioneering an artificial
1:00.4	intelligence insect farming method, which means that CO2 emissions are reduced, food waste on
1:06.6	the farmers reduced, and it increases the welfare of the animals. This episode is being brought to
1:12.8	you in partnership with the National Farmers Union, who represent almost 50,000 farmers across the
1:18.7	United Kingdom. I will always be speaking at their annual conference, and we'll have another
1:23.2	episode for you in a couple of weeks time from there, which looks at how British farmers are
1:28.0	continuing to innovate. Now they say never to work with animals or children, but this was recorded
1:34.9	on a farm, so you may hear the occasional animal noise in the back, which I'd like to think has
1:40.1	added to the atmosphere, or at least that's what I told myself in the editing suite.
1:49.6	Charles and Jo Mayor, welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
1:53.5	Hello. Hi there. Thank you for having us. So what were your roots into the world of work?
1:59.8	Where did you start your first jobs? Well, I started working London straight out of
2:08.3	university. I started in a marketing and PR fam as work experience, and I preferred the marketing
2:16.3	side, so stayed in London for seven years, until Charles kidnapped me, and then I came to the
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