20 May 2008

New awards, conference reports, Scholars’ news - and a good deal more - are all contained in the latest issue of Nuffield News. Click on the title to read on.

20 Mar 2008

The carbon footprint of British agriculture is at the centre of this landmark industry conference to be held on 30th April 2008 at Stoneleigh Park .

04 Mar 2008

Bringing together the world’s newly awarded Nuffield Scholars in Melbourne, Australia, the 2008 Contemporary Scholars’ Conference involved nine days of intensive study and hundreds of kilometres of travel to meet up with leading Victorian farmers and agribusinesses.

01 Feb 2008

Issued with their Awards ‘to boldly go’ and seek out the very best in food and farming around the globe, 24 new applicants from across the UK have won a 2008 Nuffield Farming Scholarship.

12 Jan 2008

Six Scholars shared their knowledge and their insights at the 2008 Oxford Farming Conference.

11 Dec 2007

Nuffield war veteran, George Scales, finally receives his French medal, the Croix de Guerre, for his valour on Juno Beach in June 1944.

05 Dec 2007

The 2007 Horticulture Study Group tour took place in late September and was based around Ghent. Tony Gardener reports

29 Nov 2007

Jane was one of the first three Nuffield Scholars. She chose to travel to New Zealand in 1947.

28 Nov 2007

Jane started her farming career early before becoming one of the first Nuffield Scholars in 1947.

12 Nov 2007

See some of the pictorial highlights from the 2007 Nuffield Winter Conference, held at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate on the 9th/10th November.

10 Nov 2007

The 2007 Steven and Gill Bullock Award has been won by Somerset-based Josephine Scamell NSch, who studied the relationship between the mineral and vitamin nutrition of soils, crops and livestock in 1998.

16 Oct 2007

A shortlist of four Scholars has been drawn up for the newly established Bullock Award to recognise those who have used their Scholarship to significantly change their farms and businesses. Read on...