The 2026 Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) report, UK Agriculture: Grasping the Opportunities, authored by Dr Louise Manning is kindly supported by a generous donation from the Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust. It calls for urgent action to reshape UK farming into a confident, mission-led and opportunity-driven sector.
This podcast accomapanies the report and is produced by the Oxford Farming Conference. The four guests are Dr Louise Manning, the report's author, Ali Capper, a hop and apple farmer from Worcestershire and a director of the Oxford Farming Conference. George Collison, an agri rural consultant, and Nicola Shadbolt, a New Zealand farmer and a professor in farm and agri business management, also in New Zealand.