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The Vitagri Field Report · Vitality from AgricultureFarming and nutrition talk in separate rooms. We put them side by side.
Every week Pulse Signal listens to 101 trusted farming and nutrition podcasts and publications, ranks the ten topics that matter, checks every quoted claim against the published evidence, and ends on something lighter.
Calf health leads a new week
Farming podcasts leaned hard into precision agtech, while nutrition shows chewed over fermented foods, eating pace and gut-liver health, with food-safety and animal-health stories bridging the two worlds.
- 1Calf health management claims7/10 · new
- 2Precision agtech dominates6/10 · steady
- 3Extreme weather hitting crops6/10 · steady
- 4Community building and markets6/10 · falling
- 5Potassium deficiency in fields6/10 · new
- 6Metabolic disease and crop disease5/10 · falling
- 7Eating pace and appetite5/10 · steady
- 8Soil fertility and cover crops5/10 · falling
- 9Farming identity and lifestyle5/10 · falling
- 10Managing fertiliser costs5/10 · falling
Every edition
Weekly. Each edition covers a Thursday-to-Wednesday week. 1 edition so far, newest first.
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Listened, grouped, ranked, checked
The Field Report is built by Pulse, Vitagri’s evidence system, and edited by people. The method is the same every week, so one edition can be read against the next.
Listened
Pulse Signal follows a registered roster of 101 farming and nutrition podcasts and publications, and extracts the topics and claims each episode makes.
Grouped
Similar items are grouped into topics. A group that does not hold together as one story is set aside, and topics used recently are held back.
Ranked
Each topic scores out of 10: Reach up to 4, On brief up to 3, Evidence up to 2, New 1. The trend compares this week’s sources with the four weeks before.
Checked
Every quoted claim is set against the closest published studies in Pulse Brain, 32,000+ graded research records, and their evidence grade.
- Ten ranked topicsThe week’s news on each, why it matters, and one attributed quote.
- One wildcardThe outlier the ranking buries: two sources at most, far from the ten.
- And finallySomething lighter to go out on.
- A scored predictionThe three themes we expect to lead next week, scored the week after.
The numbers behind the broadcast
Each edition’s data is published alongside it: what was heard, how the themes moved, where farming and nutrition part, how each quoted claim compares with the evidence, and how the predictions have scored.
- 57sources heardof 101 followed
- 597items extractedtopics and claims
- 328topics weighedten ranked
- 18quoted claims checkedagainst Pulse Brain
- 2 of 3last week’s predictionscored this week
A new edition every week
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About the Field Report
What is the Vitagri Field Report?
A weekly broadcast from Vitagri on what the trusted farming and nutrition podcasts and publications discussed in the previous seven days. Each edition ranks ten topics, adds one wildcard almost nobody is talking about, and ends on something lighter. It comes as a film on YouTube, an episode on Spotify and a written edition on Substack.
How are the topics chosen?
Pulse Signal, part of Vitagri’s evidence system, listens to a registered roster of 101 podcasts and publications and extracts the topics and claims each episode makes. Similar items are grouped into topics and each topic scores out of 10: Reach up to 4 (how many independent sources discussed it), On brief up to 3, Evidence up to 2 and New 1. A score ranks a shortlist; it is not a verdict on the week’s news.
Does Vitagri endorse what is quoted?
No. Everything quoted is reported speech, attributed to the show and the speaker and never asserted as settled. Declared interests are named wherever a source has one, and each quoted claim is set against the closest published studies in Pulse Brain with their evidence grade: the study and the grade, not a verdict.
What is the weekly prediction?
Each edition names the three themes we expect to lead the following week. The prediction is saved when the edition is released, never replaced, and scored in the next edition. The running accuracy is on the dashboard.
Where can I see the sources?
Every edition page lists each show and publication it quotes or cites, with a link and a line on what it covered. The dashboard lists every source heard that week.