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Stuart Oates

Jul 16, 2026

6:00
And then maybe we could have a bit of a round table or oval table as we sat at, all about our thoughts and feelings around the role of technology in fossil free thought.
6:09
Yeah, great.
6:10
Thanks very much for inviting me on.
6:11
And thanks for coming into our podcast tent.
6:14
Besides being a farmer, I also work with Sustainable Food Trust.
6:18
So we're hosting this podcast tent here this year.
6:20
So it's really cool that you guys have come in to use it.
10:29
So can you are you using your farm as as as that resource as well
23:01
Because of the productivity it enabled.
23:02
Because of the productivity and the whole revolution around farming, of course.
23:05
It's not just oil, let's be clear.
23:07
There's a lot more that went along with that in terms of automation of all sorts of technologies.
23:11
But absolutely, it has been fundamental to our history, too.
23:15
Um, and we can't pretend that we're going to be able to get rid of all of this from farming straight away.
23:21
We would starve tomorrow if we did that.

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