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From our extensive range of events and initiatives, we have built great relationships supporting local and national organisations doing their bit for the agricultural sector. To highlight these businesses and charities that surround the agricultural industry, we have created an online business directory to celebrate and share businesses located in the East of England and further afield.

Take a moment to explore these businesses and charities found below and if you wanted to feature your business on our website, simply fill in the Google form found here.

AB Agri

AB Agri is a £1.2 billion animal nutrition and agricultural services business, part of Associated British Foods. We operate across the agri-food supply chain from research to retailer, straddling high-performance compound feeds and feed co-products from the food, drink and biofuels industries, feed micro-ingredients, analytical and consultancy services, livestock and poultry marketing.

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Acorus Rural Property Services

Acorus is an independent and reputable firm of Chartered Surveyors and Rural Planning and Design Consultants providing rural property services across the UK from strategically located offices. Our comprehensive services range from Planning Consultancy, Architectural Services, Project Management and Property Sales.

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Acres Insurance Brokers

Acres Insurance Brokers was started with a single, simple aim which is to provide farmers with the customer service and independent insurance advice they deserve. As independent brokers, our core business is geared towards supporting the rural community. Understanding your business and its uniqueness is essential to us. Our strength is in the personal focus of our team to ensure we deliver the right products and gain the right result for our clients. The practical farming knowledge of our team, combined with the insurance expertise our brokers deliver, ensures we can provide the solutions you need. We are working on behalf of the client, not the insurance company.

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ADAS

ADAS is the largest, independent agriculture and environmental consultancy in the UK. With over 75 years in the industry, we can offer a unique combination of insight and practical experience, supported by robust, informed, science-based information, which allows us to deliver real solutions.

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Addington Fund

Addington Fund was set up in 2001 as the Churches’ response to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), when it distributed grants totalling £10.3 million to over 22,000 applicants. With our focus now on rural housing, we provide homes for families needing to leave or retire from the agricultural industry. In times of emergency and where hardship is evident, we continue to support viable farming families experiencing financial hardship through our Trustee’s Discretionary Fund.

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Agreena

We provide knowledge, support and incentives for farmers to implement regenerative farming practices at scale. AgreenaCarbon, our soil carbon certification programme, enables farmers to quantify their emissions benchmark, choose and monitor a regenerative strategy that works for their farm, and collect their carbon certificate to keep or sell.

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Agrespect

We believe that people live their best lives when they live authentically. There are thousands of LGBTQ+ people in the countryside. We want to unite them, celebrate them and encourage inclusiveness in rural communities. We want to promote the countryside as a vibrant, tolerant and welcoming place for everyone irrespective of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

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Agri-TechE

Agri-TechE is supporting the growth of a world-leading cluster of innovative farmers, food producers & processors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs with a shared vision of improving the productivity, profitability and sustainability of agriculture. Agri-TechE brings people together from different spheres of industry and science to turn challenges into business opportunities and facilitate mutually beneficial collaboration.

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Agricology

Agricology is an independent knowledge platform supporting all farmers and growers to transition to more sustainable and resilient farming systems. It is a free platform, open to everyone, and was set up in response to increasing challenges of declining soil fertility, climate change, declining biodiversity and the need to rethink the way we tend the land. We bring together research from the field and farmer experiences on using practices that restore the farm ecosystem. These include reducing tillage to improve soil quality, planting ‘cover crops’, adding pollinator strips or using ‘trap crops’ (which divert pests from crops instead of using chemicals), and using agroforestry systems.

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Agrii

As a leading provider of agronomy services, technology and strategic advice, Agrii combines excellence and innovation with the latest research and development to ensure our customers can meet today’s farming challenges with knowledge and confidence.

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AHDB

“The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a statutory levy board, funded by farmers, growers and the supply chain. Their role is to inspire and provide the tools for farmers, growers and industry to succeed in a rapidly changing world. AHDB works with six sectors including cereals and oilseeds, dairy, beef and lamb, pork, potatoes and horticulture to provide industry-leading, independent information.

AHDB carries out extensive research and development programmes, provides market information and analysis, creates new markets and export opportunities, funds education programmes and delivers knowledge exchange work with levy payers aimed at improving on-farm efficiency, productivity and sustainability.”

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AJS Control & Automation

Formed in 2008 to provide Electrical Contracting Services, the business has grown exponentially into a Control & Automation supplier; from its humble beginnings, AJS now provides Turnkey control services to the Food and Beverage sector.

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Alan Bartlett and Sons

Family-owned business specialising in the large scale supply of Carrots and Parsnips

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Albanwise Farming

We farm a total of 10,600ha split evenly between Norfolk and Yorkshire. Our aim is always to farm in a commercial but sustainable way, pushing crop yields to the economic optimum but having the greatest respect for the environment in which we work, and for the property owners around which we farm. Soil management and the protection of environmental features and internal waterways are at the heart of our management philosophy, making sure our major asset, our soils, are in the best possible condition for successful crop production and environmental sustainability.

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Albert Bartlett

Albert Bartlett is a family business established in 1948. They are the UK’s leading supplier of fresh & prepared potatoes. We would like to also thank Albert Bartlett for their sponsorship of the potatoes in our Kids Country Grow your own potatoes event.

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Arthey Associates

Arthey Associates are specialists in providing farm, property, land, bookkeeping, marketing and business advisory services to rural businesses in the East Midlands and East Anglia.

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Barclays Eagle Labs AgriTech

Barclays have been supporting the agricultural sector since 1744, helping farmers and growers to thrive and grow their businesses.
As well as the livestock and growing sectors, they also support the Landed Estates, energy and agri-tech sectors. They know that sector expertise and local knowledge are crucial, which is why they have over 130 Agricultural Managers across the UK, all supporting businesses within their local communities.

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Barn4

Barn4 is NIAB’s agritech incubator. Located within NIAB’s Park Farm research centre on the outskirts of Cambridge, it provides office, lab and workshop space for its members. In addition, members benefit from close links to NIAB and the opportunity to collaborate with NIAB’s teams and access cutting edge crop science facilities.

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Bedfordshire YFC

Bedfordshire Young Farmers’ can help you expand on the skills you currently have and teach you new ones; it lets you take an interest in rural affairs and lead an active social life while continuing your studies or full-time work. Bedfordshire Young Farmers’ have clubs located in Bedford, Biggleswade, Blunham, Leighton Buzzard, North Beds, Silsoe and Woburn. So if you are aged 10-26 make sure to get involved!

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Ben Burgess

Ben Burgess has branches throughout East Anglia and has been serving the local farming community since 1931.

We have been a John Deere dealer since the brand entered the UK market in 1965 and are also now suppliers of several other leading manufacturers across agricultural, construction and grounds care industries.

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Berrys

Berrys has developed a range of client-focused consultancy services able to offer business management, budgeting and business planning advice to businesses of all types. Ultimately, we can deliver improved business profit and capital retention; our business consultancy team has years of experience in business-specific analysis and planning, assessment and strategic development.

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BHG Welder Training

Based just outside Wisbech with over 30 years experience, BHG Welding Training & Testing Services offer inhouse or on-site training courses for Oxy-acetylene and Electric arc welding. For EoE members, Group Training would come at a reduced price using the code “EOE Welding”.

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Bidwells

Bidwells has been a household name in East Anglia for nearly 200 years, but it is only during the past two decades that it has extended its business throughout the United Kingdom. Born out of land agency and agriculture, Bidwells now provides a full range of professional property services from a network of ten offices across England.

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Birketts

Birketts is a full service, top 100 UK law firm, with a rich heritage spanning over 150 years. Founded in Ipswich in 1863, the firm now has offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, London and Norwich, and has built a reputation for providing high-quality legal advice and client service.

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Bletsoes

Founded in the 1880s, Bletsoes has been serving the agricultural and rural community for many years and has a strong reputation across the East Midlands, East Anglia and the Home Counties for agricultural, property and planning services

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British Sugar

British Sugar is one of the most efficient sugar processors in the world. Partnering with 3,000 growers to produce homegrown sugar, and with around half of the UK’s sugar coming from beet, we are building a beet sugar industry that works for Britain.

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Brown&Co

Brown&Co is a leading provider of agency, professional & consultancy services across the whole range of rural, commercial & residential property, agriculture & the environment.

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Bulley Davey

Bulley Davey is a firm of Accountants covering North Cambridgeshire, South Lincolnshire and the surrounding area. We have offices located in Corby, Holbeach, Huntingdon, Melton Mowbray, Oundle, Peterborough, Spalding and Wisbech offering accounts, taxation and business advisory and support services to a wide range of businesses and individuals.

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Burgess farms

We’ve been farming in the Peterborough Fens since 1898 when Harry and Percy Burgess first started growing vegetables for our London market. Fast forward to today and we are still a growing family business, passionate about our own farming and collaborating with other expert farmers to supply our customers, with the finest quality potatoes, roots & alliums which we pack ourselves. The Society would like to also thank Burgess farms for their continuing support of the Kids Country Grow your own potatoes event.

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Cambridgeshire Young Farmers

A rural youth organisation run by its members (aged 10 to 26) for its members. It provides young people who have a love of the countryside with fantastic opportunities to develop numerous skills, take part in a varied competitions programme, travel abroad, work within the local community, make friends and enjoy a great social life – fun, learning and achievement.

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Carbon Quester

Carbon Quester is an agricultural soils carbon measurement and trading platform with the aim of using agriculture to fight climate change and create a greener, healthier, and more financially sustainable future.

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Central England Co-operative

The Central England Co-operative is part of the wider co-operative movement. Co-operatives are open to everyone; they’re owned and run by members, for members and work by a set of values and principles which guide everything we do. The Central England Co-operative has also been working alongside our Kids Country education initiative, sponsoring events such as our Winter Warmer Soup Challenge.

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Cereals

The Cereals Event is the key occasion in the arable calendar with unmissable networking opportunities. Join farmers, agronomists and other industry professionals on Wed 9th & Thurs 10th June 2021 at Boothy Graffoe, Lincolnshire for the arable industry’s leading technical event.

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Cheffins

Cheffins is a market-leading firm of surveyors, property advisers and auctioneers. Established in 1825, Cheffins operates from six offices across the Mid Anglia region including Cambridge, Saffron Walden, Newmarket, Ely, Haverhill and Sutton; we also have an office in London.

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CLA East

The CLA is the membership organisation for owners of land, property and business in rural England and Wales. CLA East provides services and rural representation for members in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

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Context Bookshop

Context Bookshop is a leading organisation that publishes agricultural knowledge books detailing unique expertise from the authors themselves, along with other publishers titles.

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Cool Occasions

Cool Occasions offer affordable refrigerated trailer hire in the East of England. From our base just west of Peterborough, and south of Stamford, we cover Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland and Leicestershire, but are happy to travel further.

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Countryside Alliance

The Countryside Alliance is the campaigning organisation that promotes the rural way of life in Parliament, in the media and on the ground. Our aim is to promote understanding and acceptance of the rural way of life and activities such as hunting and shooting in a managed landscape and to protect them from bias, misinformation and over-regulation.

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Cranfield University

Cranfield University is a postgraduate university that is a global leader for education and transformational research in technology and management. We are focused on the specialist themes of aerospace, defence and security, energy and power, environment and agrifood, manufacturing, transport systems, and water.

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CropTec Show

The CropTec Show and Arable Farming have come together to bring you a 360 focus on all things arable. All the latest news and information from the industry joined up with the opportunity to see and hear about the latest developments in the arable sector at The CropTec Show on 24-25 November 2021.

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Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre

Police-led not for profit company dedicated to educating SMEs in cyber resilience and provision of affordable cybersecurity across sectors so businesses can protect themselves.

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Eastern Daily Press

The Eastern Daily Press was founded in 1870 and has brought news stories from Norfolk, Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire to millions of readers. We offer all the latest news, sport and what’s on information about the region, campaigning and supporting the people who live in the three counties.

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Easton College

A leading college based just outside Norwich with specialist state-of-the-art facilities for agriculture, sport, construction and animal care. Providing students with the skills and experiences needed for their future careers.

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Farm Retail Association

The Farm Retail Association (FRA) champions the best farm shops and farmers’ markets from across the UK. We are proud to support and inspire the people and businesses who grow and sell Great British food. Whatever area of farm retail you are from, we are here to help you and your business.

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Farmer Luke

Luke is a Cambridgeshire based farmer showing and explaining (mainly at a children’s level) the fascinating world of food and farming! Luke has produced some fantastic content for our Kids Country education initiative which can be found across his social media channels and the Kids Country website.

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G’s Fresh

G’s is one of Europe’s leading fresh produce companies. We are an international marketing led farming business. Established in 1952, G’s is vertically integrated and is driven by market-leading innovation and customer insight. We supply customers across the UK, Europe and the USA.

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George Hay Chartered Accountants

Chartered accountants and business advisers, with specialists in agriculture and rural affairs (ARA), George Hay provide accounting, taxation, audit and business advisory services, from offices in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
We understand the unique challenges that the industry faces and have many years of experience in helping rural businesses to implement effective financial controls and a clear strategy.

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Germains Seed Technology

Founded in 1871, Germains Seed Technology develops innovative industry-leading conventional and organic seed solutions, specializing in Prime, Pellet, Filmcoat and Health.

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Graindex

Graindex is the UK’s largest online grain trading platform focused on making farmers and buyers lives easier and in the process adding value to the supply chain.

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Greenwoods GRM

We are lawyers you’ll enjoy working with. We deliver high-quality, agile and responsive legal services to our clients. Greenwoods GRM is a great solution to your legal issues. Our practice area heads are consistently rated in the legal directories.
We have established bases in London, Cambridge and Peterborough together with international specialisms. Our firm’s quality is reinforced by strong “best friend” referral relationships with a number of City firms. We offer to the lawyers who work with us high-quality, interesting work, along with a real focus on work-life balance. This means we attract and retain exceptional lawyers – and our clients benefit significantly as a result.
Through the GRM history, Greenwoods GRM dates back to 1784 and can claim four past Law Society Presidents and to have drawn up the laws of Rugby Union.

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GWCT

The leading UK conservation charity conducting scientific research and developing sympathetic ways of managing the countryside for the benefit of Britain’s game and wildlife. Our long term research is reliant on membership subscriptions and donations from our supporters.

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Hard Rain

Hard Rain is a Crisis Management Consultancy. We specialise in helping food and Agri groups prepare their business ahead of something going wrong. We work with senior management to identify the risks in the business and indeed more challengingly, what might create a crisis, through no fault of their own. We then help train a senior team on what to do in the event of a crisis and ensure that the business and indeed the brand is protected and resilient.

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Harper Adams University

The UK’s leading specialist university delivering high-quality teaching and applied research for the agri-food and rural sector. Harper Adams University also works with the Marshal Papworth fund to help educate students from developing countries.

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Harvest Barn Farm Shop & Cafe

Stephen & Lynn Briggs opened Harvest Barn Farm Shop at Whitehall Farm in January 2018. They have been farming at Whitehall Farm since 2007 & are first-generation farmers with a passion for quality local food & wildlife. The 250-acre farm grows cereals, vegetables and fruit crops. The farm is a certified organic farm. The oats they grow are certified gluten-free.

They hold a Higher Level Stewardship Scheme (HLS) agreement with Natural England. The farm has over 25 acres of wildflowers, pollen & nectar-rich species, rough grasses and wild bird food, along with ‘scruffy’ ditch & field edges which are a Haven for wildlife.

In 2009 they planted 4500 apple trees as part of the UK’s largest Agroforestry system (growing trees & crops in the same fields). This helps improve our soil & benefits biodiversity, ecology & wildlife. There are always Bees & Earthworms working hard on the farm to help us and our staff with our job as farmers. We have a small, friendly team here at Harvest Barn, who will always be on hand to help with any queries or questions about the shop or farm.

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Hawk Audio Visual

Hawk Audio Visual have been providing technical solutions and support at conferences and events for close to twenty years, ranging from small presentations and employee updates for fifty people, through to large scale awards ceremonies and events for thousands. Based at our headquarters in Peterborough, we have a large stock of stage sets, sound, lighting and vision equipment.

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Hegarty Solicitors

Hegarty Solicitors offers a wide range of legal services, for businesses and individuals, with offices in Peterborough, Stamford and Oakham. Rated 5* for service on Trustpilot, specialists from all areas of the firm provide a comprehensive range of legal advice and services specific to rural and agricultural law with the highest levels of client care.

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Honey Legal

We are Specialist Estate Planners to chat with people in relation to their Estate Planning. It’s one of those subjects we never get around to sorting out and with the government changing the laws quite radically it’s catching people unawares and then they realise, ‘oh we should have done this we could have done that to protect the family’s inheritance and also to make sure that our families are consulted if we fall ill’. We are into prevention rather than cure.

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Hutchinsons

With many farming clients, representing over one million hectares, Hutchinsons are a leading agricultural and horticultural input advice and supply company.

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Inset

We provide web design, web development, SEO and digital marketing services that help your business to flourish.

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JM Horticultural Service

All horticultural and garden equipment servicing maintenance and repairs. Lawnmowers, compact tractors, quad bikes, horseboxes and trailers, wrought ironwork gates and garden items and competitive rates

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Johnsons of Old Hurst

We are a farm-based family business including a butchers, farm shop, production kitchen, tea rooms, steak house and Zoological Gardens. We pride ourselves on our traditional, sustainable farming ethos providing homegrown and locally sourced high-quality produce alongside an educational family day out.

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Lamma

LAMMA show held on 11-12 January 2022 at the NEC, is the UK’s leading agricultural machinery, equipment and technology show attracting over 40,000 visitors. With 11 halls packed with new ideas and cutting-edge equipment – the event will provide a key platform for exhibitors to introduce ground-breaking innovations to the market.

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Land Family Business

Land Family Business are rural tax advisers and accountants. Our unique range of services goes beyond the usual accountancy advice and into strategic tax planning that considers farming family dynamics within modern business structures. We deliver practical solutions in a tax-efficient way to landowners and fellow professionals.

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Landscope Land and Property Ltd

Chartered Surveyors, providing a range of professional services to clients in rural planning, property, agricultural, equestrian, soil and environmental advice.

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LEAF

We work with farmers, the food industry, scientists and consumers to inspire and enable sustainable farming. Over the last six years, we have seen steady improvements in how our producers are managing their soil and water, conserving energy, protecting their crops, enhancing wildlife habitats and reaching out to their local communities. All delivered through our producers’ commitment to Integrated Farm Management (IFM) and their drive and determination to improve their farming practices.

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Lincolnshire Agricultural Society

Home of the historical Lincolnshire Show, our incredibly diverse venue is so much more than just a showground. For more than 125 years our business has been a pinnacle within the community, providing the perfect space and flexibility for a whole host of events. The Lincolnshire Showground is owned by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, a charitable organisation established back in 1869. Its objectives are to educate the county about food, farming and a sustainable environment.

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Lincolnshire YFC

Aged between 10 and 26 years old? Then why not join in? You will have a fantastic social life with a bunch of friendly, like-minded people. You’ll meet lots of new friends in your club, county and nationwide. You can get involved with competitions, socials, sports, travel, visits, talks and learn new skills; the opportunities are endless. The more you put in, the more you’ll get out! Each club meets regularly and has something to offer to everyone. If you would like to find out more then click the link to our website or contact the County Office who will put you in touch with your nearest club.

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Marriages Flour

W & H Marriage & Sons began trading in 1824, milling the wheat on the family farm. Six generations later, we offer a wide range of flour, commercial animal feed and retail smallholder feeds and pet foods. We have always traded on quality and with integrity. A satisfied customer is at the centre of our approach to business.

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Melton Mowbray Market

“Melton Mowbray Market is the largest town centre livestock market in the country and has been in existence for 1,000 years. Melton Mowbray Market is operated by Gillstream Markets Ltd and runs a weekly Tuesday sheep sale and Wednesday cattle sale with pigs the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. As a diverse business Melton Market also runs the region’s largest Fur & Feather Auction, a farmers, antiques and general market as well as a thriving car boot on Sundays / Bank holiday Mondays. The award-winning Market Tavern and Banqueting Suite holds weddings, conferences and other events. The livestock market alone serves over 2,500 farming customers, with 350,000 visitors coming through the site annually.

All customers can expect Melton Mowbray Market to deliver them a fair, transparent and quality service.”

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MHA MacIntyre Hudson

Covering East Midlands and the South East, Peterborough based Chartered Accountants MHA MacIntyre Hudson’s agricultural experience is rooted in a wide-ranging client list from family farms across the arable, livestock, dairy and top fruit sectors, through to large commercial organisations in agri-business.

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Moor Farm

Moor Farm is a friendly family run business. Home to Moor Farm Shop, CR&CA Jacobs and Educational Acess Center for groups and schools (pre-booked only). All our beef and lamb is free-range and home reared with pork and poultry being locally sourced. Moor Farm Shop offers a wide range of high-quality products; meat (cooked and uncooked), vegetables, cheeses, cakes, jams and chutneys.

We are proud to have a five-star Food Hygiene Rating and we are a Little Red Tractor Farm Assured producer for beef and lamb. Our expert butcher and fully qualified team are always available to offer advice and help on choosing the right product for the right occasion and can cater for most eventualities. Special dietary needs can be catered for on request including a range of glutton free products. Orders can be taken by contacting us directly.

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MorePeople

MorePeople is a market leader for professional recruitment across the UK and internationally. We specialise in the Fresh Produce, Food, Horticulture, Agriculture and Garden & Leisure sectors. Our clients range from ‘own label’ suppliers to blue-chip brands.

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Moulton College

Moulton College has an unrivalled reputation for excellence in training for the Land Based, Construction and Recreation industries. Set in the rolling countryside of rural Northamptonshire, it is the ideal place to study. Check out our website by clicking below to browse the vast range of courses that we offer.

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National Trust

We’re a conservation charity that protects over 350 historic houses, 160 gardens, 1,100km of coastline, 254,000 hectares of land of outstanding natural beauty, 6 World Heritage Sites, 28 castles and 60 pubs – let’s not forget the pubs. Then, we open them up to everyone, to enjoy forever.

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Nature Friendly Farming Network

We are a group of farmers who have come together to champion a way of farming which is sustainable and good for nature. We come from a range of backgrounds big and small, organic and conventional and are passionate about ensuring our countryside is productive and bursting with wildlife. The network is open to farmers and the public alike and there is no cost to join. The NFFN will raise awareness of nature friendly farming, share insights and experience and work together for better policies for food and farming.

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Nene Park Trust

Nene Park provides opportunities for recreation, adventure and relaxation amongst 1750 acres of varied landscapes and wildlife habitats, managed by registered charity, Nene Park Trust.

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Nenescape

This National Lottery Heritage funded collaborative project brings together partners from along the River Nene between Northampton and Peterborough to celebrate, protect and conserve the natural and built heritage of the landscape. River Nene Regional Park is leading the project in partnership with a wide range of organisations.

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Newt Conservation Partnership

The Newt Conservation Partnership is working with landowners to create wildlife-friendly habitat for great crested newts. We have full funding to deliver habitat creation and restoration, and to compensate landowners via annual payments for 25 years. The habitat work may include tree or hedge planting, grassland creation or restoration, rewilding and pond creation or restoration.

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NFU East Anglia

The NFU (National Farmers’ Union) of England and Wales is the Voice of British Farming. We provide professional representation for our 55,000 members. NFUonline is our website for Farmer and Grower members. We are a non-political lobbying organisation funded by membership fees. Our head office is based in Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire and we have offices throughout England and Wales and representation in Brussels.

NFU East Anglia covers Essex, Beds, Hunts, Cambs, Herts, Norfolk and Suffolk.

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NFU Mutual

Serving the agricultural community for more than 100 years, NFU Mutual is the UK’s leading rural insurance company. We offer a range of specialist insurance products for farming, commercial and personal sectors, pensions and investments, and risk management services.

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NFYFC

We are one of the largest rural youth organisations in the UK dedicated to young people who have a love for agriculture and rural life. Led by young people, for young people, our Young Farmers’ Clubs provide their 22,000 members aged 10 to 26 with a unique opportunity to develop skills, work with their local communities, travel abroad, take part in a varied competitions programme and enjoy a dynamic social life.

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Northamptonshire YFC

Northamptonshire Young Farmers is a rural youth organisation for young people aged between 10 and 30 with an interest in the countryside and rural matters. We’re affiliated to the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs and have 5 Clubs across the county in Towcester, Grendon, Kelmarsh, Thrapston and Oundle; run by the members for the members.

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Oakbank Game and Conservation Ltd

Oakbank supply products and advice for Countryside Stewardship, Game Covers, Cover + Companion Crops, plus a wide range of other habitats. We also have a Woodland Management division that can provide management plans, felling licences, etc. We are increasingly working with Soil Carbon and Natural Capital projects.

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Open Farm Sunday

LEAF Open Farm Sunday, managed by LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), is one of the farming industry’s biggest success stories. Since the first Open Farm Sunday in 2006, over 1600 farmers across the UK have opened their gates and welcomed over 2.7 million people onto farms for one Sunday each year.

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Opico

OPICO Ltd is the largest independent distributor of agricultural machinery in the UK. The company is the sole UK importer for the following machinery brands: HE-VA, SKY, Strautmann, Maschio Gaspardo and distributes grain dryers, grassland machinery and arable equipment under its own OPICO brand.

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Oxbury Bank Plc

Oxbury is the first UK bank 100% dedicated to the future of British farmers. We provide farmers with the specialised lending they need to run their farms and offer competitive savings accounts for any individual that wants to support British Agriculture. Talk to us today about an alternative to farm finance www.oxbury.com

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Park Farm Thorney

Across three farming businesses, we farm 1600 hectares covering an area across North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We can trace our family heritage of farming and drainage in The Fens for over 300 years. In the 21st century, our aim is to grow quality crops for food manufacturers with mills, cannery and factories within 100 miles of the farm. We like to specialise in milling wheat for bread, soft wheat for biscuits and breakfast cereals, marrowfat peas for canning or mushy, sugar and mustard for Colman’s of Norwich. Park Farm are also regulars in helping out with a number of Kids Country events throughout the year.

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Pearce Hire

“Pearce Hire are one of the UK’s leading specialists in providing lighting, audio, rigging and power distribution services to outdoor, corporate and special events as well as concert and touring. We offer a complete range of solutions to suit your needs.

We are specialists in Lighting Hire, Sound Hire, Event Power, Rigging Hire, Staging Hire & Drapes Hire. We are based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire but we operate nationwide and internationally.”

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Peterborough Telegraph

Local news, sport, leisure, entertainment, information, features and discussion for the people Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK, wherever they are

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Pode Hole Farm

‘Quality with Quantity’. Pode Hole Farm is home to a herd of Beef Shorthorns run alongside an arable operation near Thorney, Peterborough. The farm aims to produce animals with good conformation and fleshing ability in a functional suckler cow.

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RABI

RABI is farming’s oldest and largest charity, offering financial support, practical care and guidance to farming people of all ages, including farmers, farmworkers and dependants.

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Reckless Abandon Media

Founded based on a mutual appreciation for attention to detail in motion pictures and sound, Reckless Abandon Media is a video production company specialising in creating visually stunning and quality content. Our portfolio ranges from corporate, promotional, education and training, fundraiser and event videos.

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Rothamsted Research

Rothamsted is the longest-running agricultural research station in the world, providing cutting-edge science and innovation for nearly 170 years. Its mission is to deliver knowledge and new practices to increase crop productivity and quality and to develop environmentally sustainable solutions for food and energy production.

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Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association

The Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association is a registered charity, founded in 1847 to promote the image, understanding and prosperity of agriculture and the countryside, primarily through the Royal Norfolk Show. The RNAA is situated at the Norfolk Showground, our 150-acre site which plays host to a wide range of events.

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Roythornes Solicitors

Roythornes is one of the top agricultural law practices in the country. We ‘get’ farming and understand the pressures our clients have to contend with.

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Rutland Agricultural Society

The Charity’s objects are to improve agriculture for the public benefit by the demonstration, exhibition and showing of livestock, machinery, crafts, products, methods and processes connected with agriculture and agricultural education. These aims still hold true today. The essence of the Rutland County Show still represents farming and agriculture. You only need to look at our livestock and equine entries last year (Over 1000 entries!) and our agricultural trade stands to see we are proud to represent our County.

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Sacrewell Farm

Explore food, farming and the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside on a visit to Sacrewell Heritage Farm and Country Centre. We’ve got plenty to keep your family entertained, with animals to meet, outdoor spaces to discover, a recently restored 18th-century watermill and a large indoor soft play centre. As part of the William Scott Abbott Trust, we’d like to invite you to take a breath of fresh air in our favourite place.

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Savills

Savills was founded as a land agency practice and rural remains at the very heart of our business. With over 900 rural staff located in 37 offices around the country, including Peterborough, we provide a full range of professional services to clients ranging from private individuals through to large institutions and corporates.

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Shuttleworth College

Set within the stunning location of Old Warden Park, Shuttleworth College (part of Bedford College) offers over 500 acres of beautiful, protected parkland and lakes, a working farm, and dedicated animal and equine facilities – it’s the perfect place to study a full-time or part-time course in land-based education and animal sciences. Whether you’re leaving school, interested in a degree-level course, want to study part-time to improve your job prospects, or would just like to take up a new hobby or interest, Shuttleworth College is a great place to study.

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Soil Fertility Services Ltd

Soil Fertility Services was established in the 1990s and has since been working hand in hand with farmers throughout the UK, constantly striving to find biological farming solutions that are efficient and more effective, in order to build soil fertility and provide crop nutrition.

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Strutt & Parker

Strutt & Parker provide a full breadth of farm management services tailored to suit individual requirements. Our consultants are qualified and experienced professionals who offer independent and research-driven advice. We aim to work with land managers in achieving their goals, forming lasting relationships as the trusted advisor.

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The AF Group

AF is the UK’s largest agricultural buying group with more than 3,500 shareholder members who are collectively farming over a million hectares of land across the UK. Our expert buyers source an extensive portfolio of products and services and offer an unparalleled level of member service and administrative support.

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The Allerton Project

The Allerton Project researches the effects of different farming methods on wildlife and the environment, sharing results of our research through advisory and educational activities. This is undertaken on our 320-hectare demonstration farm based in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. Visitors to the project include businesses, policymakers, non-government organisations, regulators, farmers, advisors, students and schools. We have several initiatives that involve the local community to help improve a shared understanding of agricultural and environmental issues.

The Society has worked with the GWCT Allerton Research Project producing a number of webinars which can be viewed by clicking here.

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The Country Food Trust

FEEDING PEOPLE IN NEED. We have provided over 1 million meals in 2020 to those in food poverty. The Country Food Trust was founded in 2015 and in simple terms, we are a charity food producer making top quality protein-based food that we donate to charities who feed people in need. Along with delivering frozen/chilled meat, we have three products, The Country Casserole, a nutritious and warming pheasant casserole and The Country Curry, a mildly spicy pheasant curry and The Country Bolognese, a delicious venison ragu.

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The Country Trust

We are a small, dynamic national education charity dedicated to bringing alive the working countryside for children least able to access it.

Since 1978 The Country Trust has been making it possible for hundreds of volunteer farmers and landowners to welcome thousands of disadvantaged young children from all backgrounds and faiths onto their farms to share their passion for food, farming and the countryside.

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The Farming Community Network

The Farming Community Network (FCN) is a voluntary organisation and charity that supports farmers and families within the farming community through difficult times. FCN exists to support all those in need in the farming community, with a particular focus on farmers and farming families.

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University of Lincoln

The University of Lincoln offers a wide variety of courses spanning the arts, science, social sciences, and business. They also offer a number of agriculture and land-based courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading’s School of Agriculture, Policy and Development is ranked 9th in the world for Agriculture and Forestry (QS rankings 2020), with specialisms in crop and livestock science, sustainable land management, international development, and applied economics and marking.

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Westland Horticulture

We supply a wide range of gardening, bird and pet care as well as environmental products to the retail market. Innovation and brands are at the heart of everything we do aligned with significant local and international growth. Based at Alconbury Hill, Huntingdon, they also sponsor our Kids Country Grow your own potatoes event.

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Wildlife Trust BCN

The Wildlife Trust is a charity that works for a better future for wildlife across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Northamptonshire. We own and manage over 100 nature reserves across our three counties, covering over 5,500 acres; all with free public access. We also provide advice to landowners and farmers on how they can improve their landholdings for wildlife.

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Woburn Country Foods

At Woburn Country Foods Butchers, we specialise in local meat from our Bedfordshire Farmers’ Producer Group. This not only means that we can supply our customers with top quality products, but can also maintain high standards of animal welfare and traceability. All our products are handmade so we can guarantee that all beef products contain 100% beef, all pork 100% pork, all venison 100% venison and so on, across our range! We have reduced Food Miles, the journey the meat takes from farm to plate, which helps the environment and puts money back into the local community. Our friendly and knowledgeable butchers are happy to help you with what cuts to buy, how to prepare and cook the meat, and what’s in season right now. We are proud to be a family-owned and run business and hope to see you in one of our stores soon or shopping through our online butcher’s shop.

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Writtle University College

Located in Chelmsford, Essex, Writtle University College is a specialist institution offering a wealth of experience in practical hands-on learning across animal, land-based, design and sports courses. Courses at FE, UG and PG level are created with an industry perspective, enabling students to gain career-relevant experience while studying.

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YAGRO

YAGRO aggregates on-farm business data into a simple online tool and gives the farm manager incredible detail and insight on the farm’s current and historical performance. We are looking to improve farm profitability and aid in decision making on the farm.

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YANA

Depression, stress or anxiety can affect any of us. However, talking about your problems and seeking appropriate help can make it easier to cope & improves your quality of life.
If you’re involved with farming or another rural business & are feeling low, or you’re worried about a member of your family, a colleague or a friend, YANA is here to help.