Harper Adams Hosts First Agricultural Management Event

If you’re a professional farm manager and you fancy an evening networking with some like-minded agriculturalists there’s a new opportunity to improve your agribusiness.

On Tuesday 25 October, starting at 7pm, the first meeting of the Institute of Agricultural Management North Midlands Branch will be held at Harper Adams University College. The speaker is local agribusinessman John Beckett, whose family own and run Belton Cheese, the award winning cheese-makers based in Whitchurch.

John’s career has included the chairmanships of North West Farmers, Cheshire Country Landowners Association and more recently the Genus Group. His life experiences will no doubt provide him with a wealth of expertise to inform his talk on “Leadership and Professionalism in Agricultural Management”.

Harper Adams is working in partnership with the Institute of Agricultural Management to encourage discussion and contact between professional farm managers in the local counties. David Ansell, the Director of the Institute, said: "I am very pleased that a branch of the Institute has been founded to serve the farming industry in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire.”

Mr Ansell goes on to say: “The purpose of the Institute is to promote professional standards of management in agriculture, and this is best achieved by active institutions operating at the local level bringing together those wishing to maintain and enhance their standards of management."

During the winter season the last Tuesday of the month will coincide with a series of informal talks to broaden the outlook and maintain the high standards of local professional farm managers.

For more details, and information about future Institute of Agricultural Management events, contact Caroline Stanford-Billington on 01952 815322. Further information about The Institute of Agricultural Management can be found at www.rdg.ac.uk/iagrm.