New HGCA Monitor Farmer Tom Bradshaw has reached the finals of the Farmers
Weekly Awards in the Arable Farmer of the Year category.
In the tenth year of the awards, three growers have been shortlisted as
Arable Farmer of the Year, including Essex-based Tom Bradshaw. A farmer
passionate about soils, Tom recently joined the HGCA’s UK-wide Monitor Farm scheme.
Tom is a partner in his family farm and grows 1,485ha of combinable
crops – malting barley, milling wheat, peas and beans - to the west of
Colchester in Essex. Apart from a small area of owned land, the majority is
farmed under contracting arrangements and includes a wide range of soil types.
He has been involved in Recommended Lists trials, and appeared on the BBC
Harvest programme in 2013. Tom was recently elected to the NFU combinable
crops board.
The first open meeting at Tom
Bradshaw’s farm is on 26 June, where local growers will have the chance to
find out more about the farm and help set the direction of the three-year Monitor
Farm project there. Interested farmers should email east@hgca.ahdb.org.uk.
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