Brash Ag
by Raymond King and Kit Franklin
Latest episode
107. Will Your Next Tractor Think for Itself?
107. Will Your Next Tractor Think for Itself?
About this podcast
Brash Ag will be lifting the lid on everything agricultural technology and agtech. Your hosts Raymond King and Kit Franklin are both Chartered Agricultural Engineers and experienced innovators and technologists. Through a mixture of commentary, insights and interviews, Ray and Kit will be using their experience to explore and explain the concepts, ideas, technology and business models that make agtech one of the most exciting and engaging industries to be involved in.
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The first season and launch of the podcast was supported by the Douglas Bomford Trust www.dbt.org.uk
Raymond King https://www.linkedin.com/in/flynt-technology/
Kit Franklin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kit-franklin-33649a51/
Episodes
The newest 20 of 107 episodes
- 107. Will Your Next Tractor Think for Itself? · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 107AI is going to change the future for farmers and engineers, but perhaps not in the way you might think… This week, Kit and Ray gather around the crystal ball with Mark Wood from…
- 106. Kidd Farm Machinery – Building Machines, Buying Businesses and Bouncing Back · 60 min · Season 5 Episode 106How do you go from an unsuccessful job application to owning the company? And what does a brush with bankruptcy teach you about keeping a machinery business alive? Check out the…
- 105. Automation in Agriculture: From Innovation to Impact - Landwards Conference 2026 · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 105Landwards 2026 Roundup – The robots are ready; are you? This week, Kit and Ray round up the conversations from the Institution of Agricultural Engineers’ Landwards 2026…
- 104. British Design Fund – How hard cash meets hardware · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 104What does it take to build an investment fund from scratch? Can a fund focused on hardware hold its own against rivals investing in software and AI? And why are agritech firms so…
- 103. Harper Hits 125, Oxbury Goes Global & Robotti Rides Again · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 103Can Oxbury take their pioneering farm finance global? Who saved Robotti and can they build a home for the hardware in the UK? How is Harper Adams celebrating 125 years of…
- 102. Is the perfect fence, No Fence? · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 102Can managing livestock really be as easy as a few taps on a smart phone? How can a tech career go from Silicon Valley to a Nordic fjord? Can a virtual fence be safer than a real…
- 101. How a Teenage Founder Got 200 Farms Using His App in 90 days · 55 min · Season 5 Episode 101How do you grow a brand new farming app from zero to over 200 farms in 3 months?! Could anyone vibe code an app for farmers? How do you scale and sell a business before your 16th…
- 100. The Brains Trust · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 100The podcast has hit 100 episodes, to celebrate this milestone, Kit and Ray sat down with a formidable Brainstrust panel, with a collective 100 YEARS of experience. Each panel…
- 99. Control Technologies UK – Speaking the language of machines · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 99This week, Kit and Ray speak to Mark Wood, CEO of Control Technologies UK. Mark shares his unconventional journey from rowing coach to controls engineer and the proactive…
- 98. Economad – Where There’s Muck, There’s Gas! · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 98Could anaerobic digestion power the future of small farms? How small is too small when it comes to herd size and viable energy production? This week, Kit and Ray sit down with…
- 97. We F**ked Up and We’re Sorry—Plus Robots, Crop-Sap Scanning and Bespoke Fertilisers · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 97This week, Ray and Kit issue a sombre apology for some of the mistakes they made in Episode 94. Did they get too giddy about receiving the podcast’s first press release? Or were…
- 96. RootWave – Can electricity kill off herbicides? · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 96What inspired Andrew Diprose to swap a career in the City for reviving a weed-control technology first explored in the 1980s? What makes RootWave different from other approaches…
- 95. Warwick Agri-Tech – Can robotics solve farming's toughest bottlenecks? · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 95How can we bring industry and academia together to solve some of farming's biggest challenges? What can agriculture learn from the automotive sector? And where should robotics be…
- 94. TAFE Builds DEUTZ – Plus AI Dystopia, 3D Printing Nirvana & are we now at ‘Peak Subscription’ · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 94What can we learn from DEUTZ's new manufacturing partnership with TAFE? Could 3D printing turn customers into your best R&D team? And are subscriptions and AI giving…
- 93. Could lasers be for losers? - The Earth Rover Story · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 93What is concentrated light and how can it beat lasers at annihilating weeds? How can autonomous weeding help fill in resource gaps? Who actually grows the trees that get planted…
- 92. Roger Robson-Williams – Electrifying Farming · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 92Are electric tractors the future workhorses of agriculture? What can life in New Zealand teach us about the fragility of global oil supply chains? And could electrification…
- 91. Groundswell - Stuart Oates: No diesel, no problem? · 50 min · Season 4 Episode 91Can sunrise yoga cure a hangover? What new technologies are needed to remove fossil fuels from farming? And has Ray really been replaced by Brash Ag's number one fan, Kieran…
- 90. Jamie Hutchinson of Cordon technologies and the £1 million bet on smarter spraying. · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 90What if the biggest opportunity in precision spraying isn't a new sprayer at all? This week Kit and Ray are joined by Jamie Hutchinson, founder and CEO of Cordon Technologies…
- 89. AI, Automation & Agricultural Paradoxes · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 89Are start-ups changing agriculture for the better? Has Clarkson's Farm improved the public's understanding of ag-tech? Can robots stay lightweight as they scale? And is AI making…
- 88. Cereals Special - Chapter 3 - Spotting · 50 min · Season 4 Episode 88Is 6 cylinders still better than 4? Have Smith Robotics really got a Balespike product on their hands? Is the UK back on track when it comes to funding for agri-tech? This week…
