The annual in-house award, initiated by former NIAB Trustee Bentley Nelstrop, celebrates exceptional contribution to innovation and enterprise by an individual or a team from within NIAB.
Elizabeth Stockdale, who is Head of Farming Systems and Agronomy Research at NIAB, was nominated for her role in establishing a major and important new strand to the support that NIAB can provide to farmers and landowners across the country, with the development and resilience of their farming businesses and systems. This is alongside the more conventional farming systems, soils and agronomy research and knowledge exchange that Elizabeth and her teams already deliver for growers across the arable, potato and forage crop sectors.
The Future Farming Resilience Fund is a project that will provide support for around 1,500 farmers with improving the resilience of their farming businesses and systems in the light of changing farm payments and the need to deliver important environmental outcomes. In addition to this, a further project will deliver farmer and community engagement around Paludiculture or farming on rewetted peat.
