Working with dairy farms on sire selection, collaborating with restaurants chains on adding value and helping to develop a new food assurance label is allowing the Evans brothers to de-risk their commercial dairy beef enterprise. In six years they have developed a scalable system around realistic profit and lifestyle targets.
The Beef Farmer of the Year Award was sponsored by ABP UK.
The Farmers Weekly Awards celebrate the very best of British agriculture by recognising hard-working and innovative farmers across the UK. The ceremony was held on Thursday 7th October at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London
About Farmers Weekly Awards
The Farmers Weekly Awards are the biggest night in the farming calendar. They recognise and reward farmers for innovation, commitment to the industry and hard work. The Awards showcase the best farmers in the country by telling their stories. They aim to spread best practice, inspire others and influence the public about the role that farmers play in today’s society. The awards are in their seventeenth year and are sponsored by some of the biggest names in the industry.
The distinctive, round, yellow wall plaque has become a symbol of the innovation and achievements of more than 500 outstanding farmers since the awards were launched 17 years ago.
About the sponsors
The sponsors of the Farmers Weekly Awards span the whole food and farming chain; from retailers to traditional farming suppliers and farming groups. They are not simply leaders in their own right but a powerful collective force, which wields influence and expertise inside and outside the farming industry.
About Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly is the best-read farming publication and most-used multimedia information service for farmers and agricultural businesses in the UK, operating in print, online and face-to-face. The magazine and its website http://www.fwi.co.uk/ provide news, market prices, technical advice, opinion and a range of vital interactive services for farm businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Farmers Weekly has been providing a service to the UK farming community for more than 80 years and prides itself on delivering authoritative and independent content that farmers can trust. Farmers Weekly is part of the Mark Allen Group portfolio.
Full list of award winners
Lifetime Achievement
Bill Cark
Ag Student of the Year
Jessica Langton, Derbyshire
Arable Adviser of the Year
Kieran Walsh, Gloucestershire
Arable Farmer of the Year
Simon Best, County Armagh
Beef Farmer
Aled & Iwan Evans, Carmarthenshire
Contractor
Mill ‘N’ Mix, Ross-shire
Dairy Farmer
Mark Larwood, Norfolk
Diversification Farmer
Alison and Fergus Younger, Stirling
Farming Champion
Jeremy Clarkson
Farm Manager
Edward Vipond, Suffolk
Grassland Manager
Mark Housby, Northumberland
Livestock Adviser
Ian Ohnstad, Somerset
Mixed Farmer
Paul Temple, East Yorkshire
Pig Farmer
Richard Mellor, Norfolk
Poultry Farmer
Craig Michie, Aberdeenshire
Sheep Farmer
Tim White, Wiltshire
Young Farmer
Harriet Ross, Aberdeenshire
Farm Innovator
Tim White, Wiltshire
Environmental Champion
Jake Freestone, Gloucestershire
Overall Farmer
Edward Vipond, Suffolk
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