Organisers of last weeks Northern Farming Conference say that the event has become so successful that it has become a firm fixture on the farming calendar – after only two years.

Attracting a high profile line-up of speaker including Agriculture Minister Jim Paice, the Presidents of the CLA and NFU and the Chairman of Natural England as well as farmers and agricultural businesses, the event attracted almost 300 delegates from across the region.

The conference chairman, Harry Chrisp, a farmer and solicitor at Gibson & Co solicitors, was thrilled with the way the conference ran. He said: "As a working farmer I found so much that I could take away from the day and use to improve my own farm business.  The conference was a triumph and I am grateful to those who attended for making the day." 

Robin Earle, of Strutt & Parker's Morpeth office ran much of the organisation of the Conference agreed, saying: "I am delighted that so many people chose to come to the conference and that there was such a buzz about the event. This has made the conference a forum which politicians and those in the industry chose to make their announcements and that is due to the support that the Northern farming community have shown the Conference. I am also very grateful that the other speakers, particularly the inspirational Nelless brothers, were able to interpret what many of the forward thinking ideas meant to those farming in the North." 

Alistair Cochrane, the Chair of North East CLA and also of Strutt & Parker, chaired the morning session of the Conference added "I was delighted to see such a high calibre of speakers at the Conference.  It is so rare to see the Agriculture Minister together with Presidents of the CLA and NFU on the same platform at the same time.  I am delighted that we were able to make such an influential spread of speakers accessible to Northern Farmers and those who support them. I hope that all delegates would agree that it was worth leaving the land for the day to hear what they had to say."