The winners of the 2021 British Farming Awards were announced last week on Thursday, October 21, at an event hosted by TV and radio presenter Vernon Kay.
TV-celebrity Jeremy Clarkson and fellow Clarkson’s Farm star Kaleb Cooper attended the event, and were honoured for Flying the Flag for British Agriculture.
On acceptance, Clarkson thanked his whole team:
“This is about the whole team. It is for everybody who is involved. There is a great crowd of people on that farm.”
Other notable award winners include National Farmers’ Union (NFU) president Minette Batters and Scottish chilli farmer Sheena Horner, who took home a trophy for Farmers Guardian Farming Hero for her work spearheading a running campaign to improve mental health in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic
The run saw 1,200 farmers and industry professionals take part and run just short of 65,000 miles, the equivalent of two and a half times around the world, raising more than £60,000 for five farming charities.
The full list of the 2021 winners is as follows:
- Agricultural Student of the Year: Jessica Langton, University of Nottingham (gold) and William Awan, Harper University (silver);
- Agri-tech Innovator of the Year: Terry Canning, CattleEye, Co. Antrim (gold) and Ian Wheal, Breedr, West Sussex (silver);
- Arable Innovator of the Year: Jake Freestone, Overbury Enterprises, Worcestershire (gold) and Paul Davey, R.M. and E.F. Davey, Lincolnshire (silver);
- Beef Innovator of the Year: Colin Davidson, Skaill Farm, Orkney (gold) and Louise Tudor, Upper House Farm, Shropshire (silver);
- Contractor Innovator of the Year: Neil Fell, N.R. Fell Mobile Sheep Dipping, Durham (gold) and Gordon Samet, Livetec Systems (silver);
- Dairy Innovator of the Year: Tim Sinnott, Ivy House Farm, Leicestershire (gold) and Susie and Mark Mottershead, The Brook, Wrexham (silver);
- Digital Innovator of the Year: Farshad Kazemain, The Ethical Butcher, London (gold) and Will Roobottom, Croley Hill, Staffordshire (silver);
- Diversification Innovator (small-medium) of the Year: Jenny and Stephen McKerr, Forth Mains Farm, South Lanarkshire (gold) and Andrew and Lauren Houston, Glenkilrie Larder, Perthshire (silver);
- Diversification Innovator (large) of the Year: Danny MacMillan, The Macs Farm, Sussex (gold) and Rebecca and Stuart Mayhew, Old Hall Farm, Norfolk;
- Family Farming Business of the Year: The Dalton Family, Daltons Dairy, Derbyshire (gold) and The Marshall Family, Marshall Farms and Farm Shop, Aberdeenshire (silver);
- Farm Worker of the Year: Chloe Shorten, J.C Inne and Son, Aberdeenshire (gold) and Emma Houlton, Farringtons, West Lancashire (silver);
- Farming Guardian Farming Hero: Sheena Horner;
- Flying the Flag for British Agriculture: Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper;
- Machinery Innovator of the Year: Robert Hadley, Chesterton Fields Farm, Warwickshire (gold) and Martin Dillon, Tilting bale spike, Aberdeenshire (silver);
- New Entrant/Against the Odds: Tom Addison, Addison agri, Buckinghamshire (gold) and James Matthews, Elmtree Farm, Gloucestershire (silver);
- Outstanding Contribution to British Agriculture: Minette Batters, NFU;
- Sheep Innovator of the Year: Matt Harding, Bentley Suffolks, Leicestershire (gold) and James Drummond, A. and W.J. Drummond, Northumberland;
- Sustainability Innovator of the Year: James Wright, Tonnagh Farm, Co. Armagh (gold) and Kate and Kevin Hoare, Trenance Farm, Cornwall (silver).
