Interview with Ellen Marks, agri tech manager at ubloquity - active, driven & chatty

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Ellen Marks recently graduated from Queen’s University Belfast and CAFRE the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, with a degree in agricultural technology.
While on placement from uni she previously worked part-time for NSF Verify within NI on a pilot program focusing on Northern Ireland’s beef industry.
She also undertook a placement year with McDonald’s, as a progressive young farmer working within McDonald’s beef supply chain alongside OSI Food Solutions and ABP Food Group.
Ellen recently joined ubloquity as its agri tech manager having got to know Kieran Kelly while at NSF.
She is a farmer herself and alongside her father and sister is applying data analytics and using innovative techniques in order to drive efficiencies on her farm, and operate in a more sustainable way that is better for the environment.
While on her placement with McDonalds, there were nine other placement students who were working in other sectors like the poultry industry, the egg industry, so Ellen got to visit them too and see all aspects of the entire McDonald's supply chain. She got to see things she would otherwise not have had the opportunity to see, including farmers who were really pushing the boundaries in terms of regenerative agriculture and Holistic Management Practices.
In the future, she would like to see that when you walk into a shop, you take your phone out, you scan a QR code on a product, and it can tell you exactly where this product has come from. It's 'farm to fork' journey. Full traceability of that product.
And her advice to other young farmers just starting out, like she was before going to uni, ask plenty of questions. Talk to as many people within the industry as you can. Make those contacts, make those networks. Get to know people get to know what companies are doing.
Ellen is active, driven and chatty - the 3 words she would use to describe herself.
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