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Meet some of the members of Farmstock Futures.
We would like to introduce you to our Farmstock Futures champions who are happy to share their thoughts and ideas as well as support us with our events and podcast series.
Join our Farmstock Futures champions, if you want to be a voice, or help influence positive changes within the Farming and Agri industry. Or simply join us if you want to connect and network, sharing your own stories and experience within our sector.
Join our Farmstock Futures champions
Alex Nutter
Alex grew up on her family's farm in Higham, Lancashire. Where they have a herd of suckler cows and breed pedigree Limousins along with having a flock of commercial sheep.
Growing up Alex's family had a meat wholesale business, this is where her pa
Annabel Hamilton
Annabel is farming 2,700 acres on predominantly grade 3 and 4 soils on the East Berwickshire coast. Winter crops make up 80% of the acreage with the other 20% in spring cereals, vining peas and land rented out for potatoes.
The farm finishes betwee
Boomer Birch
As a farmer’s son from Staffordshire, Boomer Birch has been working with Cogent Breeding Limited for 12 years. In 2016, he was appointed for the role of Beef Programme Manager to drive forward the selective breeding programmes and genetic developmen
Emma Blamire
I grew up on a family dairy farm between Wigton and Thursby and I have involved in agriculture all of my life. I am a keen member of Raughton Head Young Farmers and have been since I was 12. Following 3 years at Liverpool John Moores University stud
Gemma Common
Having left school at 16 and going into sport gaining ASA swimming level 1 & 2, lifeguard, trampoline and football coaching, I found I missed being at home on the farm and the outdoors. I enrolled at newton rigg and returned home to work alongside m
Georgia Hunter
I run a dairy goat farm in Ravenstonedale, Cumbria alongside my parents. I have had a passion for agriculture all my life and always been intrigued into welcoming different and new ways into the industry.
At 18 years old I was accepted for a loan f
Harriet Wilson
Harriet is responsible for Agriculture & Sustainable Sourcing at McDonald’s UK & Ireland and is based on her family’s beef & sheep farm in Staffordshire.
With a passion for Agriculture, her career so far has involved roles with retailers ALDI and C
Harry Huddart
I grew up in north Northumberland and have been involved in agriculture all my life. Following three years studying agriculture with farm business management at Newcastle University, I am now a farm manager for Dyson Farming in Lincolnshire. This is
Henry Scholefield
I have had a passion for agriculture from a young age and followed this by studying Agriculture at the University of Nottingham for four years including an industrial placement year in Norfolk.
I am now the farm manager for Brackenburgh Home Farms
Laura Beck
Laura is a Senior Agricultural Officer for the Rural Payments and Inspection Division of the Scottish Government. She also farms alongside her family on their mixed Arable and beef enterprise in the Scottish Borders.
Laura studied Agriculture at
Helping to shape the future for farmers and agri business
Mark Curr
I am a third generation beef and sheep farmer on the family hill farm in East Cumbria. Having completed a National diploma in agriculture at Newton Rigg college I worked at home as well as other farms in the area and travelled to work in New Zealand
Molly Westwood
Molly runs a successful Pedigree Holstein breeding business: Panda Holsteins based in Devon, UK. Born and bred on her family's Dairy farm she has always had a great passion for cows and pedigree breeding. When her family's farm was sold in 2007 she
Richard McCormick
I am a beef and sheep farmer from southwest Scotland where working alongside my parents and brother we run 2 separate units one focusing on breeding stock and the other on finishing stock.
Since leaving school I went to college to study a HNC in ag
Stephanie Dick
I am from a family farm based in the heart of Scotland in Stirling. Farming was born and bred into me and I work alongside my father and grandfather on our 3000acre arable and beef farm with a small flock of sheep also. Pedigree cattle is my passion
Tom Lomas
Tom originates from a small family farm in the High Peak, Derbyshire. After attending Reaseheath to complete and NCa, ANCa and FdDA he then set up a business with a friend, showing, preparing and selling cattle all over the UK and Europe. Also setti