In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike and Emily Scaife speak to Tom Astill, Market Development Representative from Bayer, and Dr Becky Howard from PGRO about Bayer's work on crop protection and insecticides for pulse crops, including their newest product, Sivanto Prime.

In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike and Emily Scaife are joined by Iain Ford, Business Development Manager for Agricultural Solutions at BASF to discuss the newly released Pea Growth Guide, helping growers with the best ways to get the best out of their peas.

In this episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the latest pulse market update for April 2025.

In this episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the latest Pulse Market Update for March 2025, in which the UK's pulse markets have continued to be quiet since the turn of the year, and overall export demand has been much lower since the last harvest.

In this Supply Chain Focus edition of Inside the Pod, we speak to Mark Herriman, Head of Sales and Corporate Operations at PheroSyn, a start-up company spun out of Rothamsted Research supporting a new method of pest control in crops - pheromone-based monitoring, with the aim of reducing pesticide use in agriculture.

In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we take a look at the From Soya to Sustainability conference held in January by the NCS Project partners.

Ben Pike speaks to a variety of speakers and attendees from the conference, including Philip Lymbery from Compassion in World Farming, Gemma Hoskins from Mighty Earth, and Pulse Pioneers John Seed and Rob Waterston, plus more, about the importance of home grown pulses in replacing imported soya and creating a more sustainable food system.

In this extended episode of Inside the Pod, we look at the 2025 Descriptive List for Pulses which was unveiled by PGRO at CropTec 2024.

We speak to PGRO Chief Technical Officer Dr Chris Judge who talks us through what's new on the list, as well as representatives from two of the breeders who have varieties on this year's list, Heather Oldfield from Limagrain and Michael Shuldham from NPZ.

In this episode of Inside the Pod, Ben Pike takes a look at the highlights from this year's Pea and Bean Conference, run by the British Growers Association, which took place in Lincolnshire earlier this month.

It was a full day with speakers such as Simon Conway from Horticulture Crop Protection Ltd, Sam Trevey, the Fresh Produce Technical Manager from Red Tractor, the Lincolnshire Rural Support Network, and Hatch PR, who are behind the Yes Peas campaign, all speaking at the event.