Where farming meets science | 101 jobs that change the world S2 Ep 1

Josh Misselbrook, better known to YouTube as @JMFarming, is the son of a research scientist, but always wanted to work in agriculture. Academia wasn’t for him – he just wanted to be outside all the time. He got a job at a local dairy farm and, in Josh's words, his "A-levels went out the window".

But his farming skills have brought him back into the research ecosystem, as a Livestock and Field technician at @RothamstedResearch, where his father once worked.

Phil Le-Grice, Research Technician at the North Wyke farm platform, says: "Roles like Josh’s and the technical team, they are fundamental to delivery of the research endeavour. That practical ability to make an experiment happen at scale or at small scale is what delivers the science here."

More on North Wyke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruoyQq26_HY
Hear more from Phil on the research effort at North Wyke here: https://youtu.be/An15yiXO1h0

Other places farming and science go hand in hand:
- Growing Miscanthus in North Wales: https://youtu.be/v4nNWdrq-1A
- Spreading rocks on farmland to capture carbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJri-0TjUc
- Biochar to remove carbon: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/research-areas/energy-institute/projects/biochar/index.aspx

This is season two of 101 Jobs That Change the World, our series on the people and roles that make research and innovation people. See them all in our playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkjB0VcEl5P9yPj9tljiU1PMhadR7iU1C
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