Chance to join the Nuffield network
Farming is about to face the biggest change for generations. Do you want to be at the front end of those changes?
Since the 1947 Agricultural Act there have been many changes in the way UK farming has had to adapt and over that period several hundred Nuffield Farming Scholars, including many from across the West Midlands, have scoured the world for ideas and innovations which have helped UK famers to become more proficient.
A Nuffield scholarship is an ‘international passport’ for global travel which opens doors not usually open and scholars become members of a vast international net-work. No formal post school educational qualifications are required by applicants.
With the imminent changes to the support mechanisms post Brexit, the new era will entail new thinking to counter the loss of CAP support. It will require new approaches related to productivity, volatility, profitability and sustainability, coupled to the envisaged swing towards a more environmentally oriented support system.
When Lord Nuffield established the Nuffield Farming Scholarships in the immediate post war period of food shortages, he did so to enable farmers and others involved in the food chain to seek out ideas world-wide which would help famers increase food production.
Post Brexit the industry will need a new approach to be able to react in a positive way to new scenarios including how to face volatility and how to react to support systems based on environmental payments.
So history will be repeating itself and there will be a need once again to scour the world for new approaches, innovations and new market opportunities.
If you are between 25 and 45 years old, and would like to go out into the world to gather information and ideas, apply for a Nuffield Farming Scholarship. Applications must be in by late July.
To find more or to register your interest go to www.nuffieldscholar.org
