Education

Three promising postgraduate agricultural students from across the UK have been selected to receive a ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to further their education within the sector.

A team of students from Pipers Corner School in High Wycombe have been crowned winners of LEAF Education’s National Competition in Food, Farming and Natural Environment 2022.  This year’s finalists’ weekend, run by LEAF Education, in partnership with Bayer and Coleg Cambria, was held at Coleg Cambria in Llysfasi, North Wales, over the weekend of 21-23 October.

Suffolk’s next generation of farmers have received potentially life-saving advice on staying safe around electricity through visit from UK Power Networks.

Twelve young agricultural engineer apprentices received cash awards at the Midlands Machinery Show in recognition of their talent and dedication. Each received a £500 award, paid in £250 instalments over a two-year period, with most looking to spend the money on tools.

A new course offering sustainability training for farmers and land managers has recently launched in the UK and covers how to integrate biodiversity into farming practices while protecting yield.

More than 130,000 students will experience harvest time first-hand as the NFU education team takes them behind the scenes of the UK’s biggest harvest festival.

Proving that food security and agriculture are of interest to the younger generation, this year’s Baylab Lab Coat Competition saw a sizeable number of entries.

In what promises to be a boost for the rural sector, the centre would host events and workshops for secondary school pupils, school leavers and adult learners, as well as existing rural sector workers.

A new children’s story book developed by The Farming Community Network (FCN) and New Zealand author Pauline McLeod will help children in rural communities develop vital resilience skills and a positive attitude towards change.

A farming student from Devon has been selected as one of the faces for a national engineers campaign to inspire the next generation to tackle climate change.

NOAH’s Animal Medicines Best Practice (AMBP) farmer training can help fulfil the new Red Tractor standards that make the completion of medicines training for their beef, sheep and pig producers a requirement.

What will your farm look like in five, 10 or even 30 years, and what actions can you take now to create that new future?