Recipients of the 2013 Nuffield Scholarships have been announced at the Nuffield Annual Conference. NFU President Peter Kendall presented the twenty two Scholars with their Awards and expressed the importance of investing in the leaders and innovators of the future to challenge and empower the agricultural industry.

The study topics were identified as having pinpointed important areas for the wider farming community to focus their attention, with scholars setting out to report on a broad range of titles varying from ‘EID in Cattle’, ‘Reducing Farm Costs to Survive in a Global Market’, to ‘Precision Farming - Can it Help Feed the World’.

The Scholars presented with their Awards were; William Armitage, Niall Armstrong , Claire Bragg, Andrew Brewer, Alison Capper, Davina Fillingham, Jake Freestone, Sara Gibbins, Tamara Hall, Rebecca Hill, Andrew Janaway, Jamie McCoy, Robert Neill, Tanya Robbins, Charles Russell, Thomas Sewell, Michelle Sprent, Liam Stokes, Robert Thornhill, Jason Vickery, Keith Williams , and Andrew Williamson.

Speaking at the Nuffield Conference, Peter Kendall stated, “We need to be challenged if we are to grow successful and exciting businesses of the future. Exciting, innovative and competitive businesses are central to the big global challenges we face today.

“Congratulations to all those who have completed their scholarships and those now going forward,” he said.

The Scholars will embark on the studies next March and will travel for at least eight weeks over an 18 month period, over which time they will undertake their own research and review global practices. They will present their findings during the Nuffield Conference in 2014.