Landwards Summer 2022
People Meet the President
A long road into agricultural engineering Incoming IAgrE President Steve Constable spent some time with Landwards editor Andy Newbold explaining his journey so far and what the future holds for the discipline. Tell us your background and how you became an ag engineer? Growing up on Exmoor in a small village called Luxborough was a fantastic time. The freedom was amazing and in hindsight it is the life that most people are aiming for now. It was so remote that we did not 12
have any mains services until I was 19 which was only electricity which we installed ourselves after digging a trench nearly a mile long to the nearest transformer pole. Previously, we ran Lister generators of which I was keeper and mechanic. I guess this was the start of my
interest in engineering. I also had owned trials and motocross bikes since I was 9 years old and my father helped me and my brother if we needed to repair them but the onus was on us to do it. I had worked on my best friend’s 800 acre mixed farm since I was small
