SPEAKERS
2022 Speakers
Hear from arable experts and farmers on key issues to discover new ways to help your business thrive in The CropTec Show’s technical seminar programme.
Session Chair – Coping with change: Costs, environmental regulation & cultivating resilience
Joe Stanley is an experienced farmer and conservationist and became head of training and partnerships at the GWCT’s Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire and Rutland border. Joe is also county chair of Leicestershire, Northants, and Rutland NFU and sits on the NFU East Midlands Crops Board. He is also a trustee of the Henry Plumb Foundation.
Session Chair – Coping with change: Costs, environmental regulation & cultivating resilience
Abi took up the post of chief reporter at Farmers Guardian after a stint working for the NFU as part of its government affairs team. Prior to that, she spent five years in parliament as an assistant to a rural MP. Abi covers all aspects of agricultural politics for FG, providing news stories and analysis to ensure farmers know how decisions made in Westminster and further afield will affect their day-to-day lives.
Coping with change: Costs, environmental regulation & cultivating resilience
Edward Reynolds farms 320 hectares in West Cambridgeshire, transitioning from conventional practices to reduced tillage and reduced agricultural practices in 2018. An agronomist and soil consultant between 2011 and 2015, Edward is interested in questioning conventional crop production models by incorporating cover crops and reduced soil disturbance techniques.
Coping with change: Costs, environmental regulation & cultivating resilience
Caroline graduated from Newcastle University with a Degree in Agriculture with Hons in Agronomy. She began her career at AHDB where she worked for nine years, firstly in research communications and then as a Crop Protection Scientist specialising in Integrated Pest Management. Caroline then joined Prime Agriculture, an independent agronomy group, as a Technical Manager before joining Defra. She has been with Defra for over three years, firstly in the Pesticides Team, and now in the Sustainable Farming Incentive team leading on the development of actions for Integrated Pest Management. Caroline also works a day a week at home on the family farm and is BASIS and FACTS qualified.
Coping with change: Costs, environmental regulation & cultivating resilience
Harry Henderson’s career started as a tractor, combine and crop sprayer operator for Rothamsted Research before becoming farm manager at Monsanto in Cambridge. From there he took a role with John Deere as a Crop Systems Specialist involved in technical sales support in combine harvester, crop sprayer and precision technology products. In 2013 Harry joined AHDB as a regional manager for the North of England and is now technical knowledge exchange manager, with a focus on mechanisation, soil management and sustainable arable farming.
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Session Chair – Trusting data: How tech adoption could be key to controlling fertiliser costs
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Trusting data: How tech adoption could be key to controlling fertiliser costs
Following achieving a degree in Agricultural Botany at Reading University in 1989, Mark worked as a commercial agronomist in the agricultural supply industry, advising farmers on both plant protection and crop nutrition for 10 years. Following this he spent two years as an independent agronomist for Aubourn Farming in Norfolk. In 2002 Mark joined Yara UK Ltd as their Company Agronomist, directing the agronomic policies, R & D, and interacting with the marketing function. In 2011 he completed The Frank Arden Nuffield Scholarship titled ‘Life after Manufactured Fertilizer – Nitrogen’. In 2012 he became the Chief Agronomist for Yara BU North and East Europe which has given him experience with other crops, including Soybean, and precision farming developments in agricultural environments from Russia, Ukraine, The Baltics, Finland and the Nordic region. In September 2015 he returned to Yara UK and is currently the Marketing and Agronomy Business Manager.
Trusting data: How tech adoption could be key to controlling fertiliser costs
Harper Adams University graduate in BSc (hons) Agri-food production with marketing and management. I have worked for Dyson Farming for 8 years, previous to that agronomy and farm trader roles at Frontier Agriculture and Agrii. Responsible for the agronomy management, crop inputs, technical advice and direct costs budgeting and purchasing for the 35,000ac of cropping from Lincolnshire down to Gloucestershire. I am part of the senior management team at Dyson Farming and manage a small team concentrated on agronomy, data management, technical information and soil science.