About this episode

Kit Franklin discusses his journey in agricultural engineering and his vision for the future of the Institution.

In this Landwards episode, IAgrE President Kit Franklin joins host Andy Newbold to share his journey into agricultural engineering and his vision for the Institution’s future. Growing up on a family farm in Cirencester, Kit combined a love of maths, science, and design with agriculture, leading him to Harper Adams and a degree in Agricultural Engineering. He arrived wanting to design “big shiny tractors,” but left with a passion for autonomous, smaller, and more precise machinery and the wide...

People in this episode

Host: Andy Newbold

Guest: Kit Franklin

Topics covered

• agricultural engineering
• autonomous machinery
• precision agriculture
• career journey
• institution vision

Keywords

• agricultural engineering
• autonomous machinery
• precision farming
• Kit Franklin
• IAgrE

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institution of Agricultural Engineers, Harper Adams

Places: Cirencester

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