2021 Nuffield Farming New Scholars

2021 NEW SCHOLARS

RANALD ANGUS

“Bridging the carbon divide” - Marketing soil sequestered carbon for economic, agronomic & climatic regeneration

MacRobert Trust RICHARD COPAS

The mechanization of cherry production and harvest

Malcom Isaac NSch GEOFF GUY

Deer Farming and Landscape Scale Management of Wild Deer to Combat Habitat Degradation and Produce Sustainable Venison in the UK

John Oldacre Foundation IAN BAGGS

Sustainable forage cropping for dairy cattle in the face of climate change challenges

The Trehane Trust DAN DE BAERDEMAECKER Influences affecting management and productivity of deer as a semidomesticated species in an intensive farming system The Studley College Trust CAMILLA HAYSELDEN-ASHBY Hemp: how can UK farmers take advantage of this profitable, sustainable crop? NFU Mutual Charitable Trust

MATTHEW BLYTH

Evaluating the potential cost benefits of electronic data recording for UK sheep and beef farms

John Oldacre Foundation JOHN GRAY

Fresh produce supply chain excellence - Growing our share of the value chain

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and Worshipful Company of Fruiterers ROBERT HOWE

Exploring & defining the role of Farm Vets within Regenerative Agriculture

AHDB ANNA BOWEN

Can the UK improve the ethics of its dairy calf management while retaining profitability?

Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust (a Clyde Higgs Scholarship) and a Young

Nuffield Award KEITH GUE

Could Dairy be the Pig and Poultry of the future?

East Sussex NFU AISLA JONES

How can retail and supply chains create demand for more sustainable aquaculture feed?

Richard Lawes Foundation

2021 NEW SCHOLARS

JAMES MACCARTNEY UK red meat production: How to win the battle for environmental sustainability in the mind of the consumer Worshipful Company of Butchers NAVARATNAM (THEEB) PARTHEEBAN Encouraging and supporting an ethnically diverse workforce in the agricultural, farming and veterinary sector McDonald’s UK & Ireland

CHRIS MANLEY Taking Agriculture to the Leading Edge: What can we learn from the best leaders inside and outside Agriculture? Worshipful Company of Farmers with Savills GARY THOMPSON Breaking dairy farming’s addiction to inorganic fertilizer: The road to rehabilitation Thomas Henry Foundation

ADRIAN MARSHALL

Can welfare expectations of consumers be met by the UK commercial egg sector in the short and long term?

BEMB Trust EDWARD TOWERS

Atmospheric carbon to organic matter to crypto/ecurrency

John Oldacre Foundation EMILY MCVEIGH

Farm to glass: Assessing how farms can benefit from future trends in the drinks industry

Alan and Anne Beckett

NSchs

CLAIRE WHITTLE Do regenerative agriculture principles improve the health and welfare of livestock? McDonald’s UK & Ireland