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Adam Driver — Driver Farms, Suffolk — Family-run 1,200ha contract farming business on Hanslope series clay, practising regenerative agriculture with zero and min-till, 12m CTF system, a…
Alex Shutes — Farm manager on a 200ha all-arable farm in Essex. Harper Adams graduate (2012), aged 28 at time of writing (2018). Transitioned from conventional p…
Andrew Jackson — Pink Pig Farm, Lincolnshire — Regular farmer focus contributor appearing in 7 issues. Wrote the report on the UK No-Till Conference (Issue 9). Based at Pink Pig Farm in Lincolns…
Andrew Mahon — Bromborough Estate, Northamptonshire — Estate manager who completed a stepwise transition from plough/min-till to full no-till on heavy Hanslope series clay, documenting the process as a…
Andy Cato — Wildfarmed — Founder of Wildfarmed — a regenerative grain brand connecting regen farmers directly with premium flour and bread markets. Featured farmer in Issue…
Andy Howard — Low-Input Transition Farmer, Kent — Author of the influential Nuffield report on companion intercropping. Farming in transition: no tillage, 40% less nitrogen, 50%+ less fungicide, al…
Angus Gowthorpe — York — Second-place winner of Soil Farmer of the Year 2018. Farms 400 acres in York with arable crops and pedigree cattle on grassland. No-till for 5+ yea…
Anna Jackson — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor in Issue 27 (April 2024).
Ben Martin — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 20 (January 2023) onwards.
Ben Taylor-Davies — Farmer Focus Writer — Featured farmer in Issue 27 (April 2024).
Bill Buessing — Kansas no-tiller and “cover crops addict.” Operates a 440-acre farm in Axtell, Marshall County, Kansas, integrating diverse cover crop blends, no-t…
Billy Lewis — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 20 (January 2023) onwards.
Cameron Ferguson — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 32 (May 2025).
Chris Fellows — Editor, Direct Driller Magazine — Content Manager of Direct Driller magazine from Issue 1 (March 2018) and now Editor from Issue 31 (February 2025). Also manages content for AgriWeb…
Chris Martin — Agronomist in Focus — Agronomist contributor appearing in 3 issues. Known for the “Era is Coming to an End” article (Issue 22) challenging the conventional agronomy model.
Clive Bailye — Founder and publisher of Direct Driller magazine and AgriWebMedia Ltd. Zero-till farmer in Staffordshire, active contributor to The Farming Forum (…
Daniel Davies — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 24 (December 2023) onwards.
David Aglen — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 20 (January 2023) onwards.
David Miller — Wheatsheaf Farming Company, Hampshire — Farm manager with 44+ years’ experience who transitioned from conventional to conservation agriculture, documenting the journey from high-input whe…
David White — Hawk Mill Farms, Cambridgeshire — Featured farmer operating a 160 ha chalk farm on the Cambridgeshire/Newmarket border, three years into direct drilling at the time of Issue 3.
Dick Neale — Hutchinsons, Technical Manager — Long-standing agronomist and Technical Manager at Hutchinsons Crop Protection. Frequent contributor to Direct Driller (5+ issues) and speaker at Cl…
Ed Reynolds — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues. Featured farmer in Issue 15 (October 2021).
Edwin Taylor — South Northumberland — Fifth-generation mixed farmer and founding BASE-UK member who transitioned from conventional to conservation agriculture over 20+ years, documentin…
Elle Seville — Farmer Focus Writer — New farmer focus contributor in Issue 28 (July 2024).
Frederik Larsen — Featured Farmer — Featured farmer in Issue 33 (July 2025).
Gabe Brown — US regenerative agriculture pioneer. Farms Browns Ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota, with son Paul. Internationally recognised for integrating no-t…
George Sly — Sly Agri, Lincolnshire — Farmer, shareholder in Sly Agri equipment manufacturer, and strip-till pioneer. 280ha clay/silt at Gedney Hill near Spalding. Pushes boundaries of …
Hannah Foxall — Agronomist in Focus — Agronomist featured in Issue 30 (October 2024). Focused on the significant challenges presented by the 2023/24 season weather.
Harry Moulton — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 32 (May 2025).
Heather Oldfield — Farmer Focus Writer — New farmer focus contributor in Issue 35 (January 2026).
Jack Hind — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 35 (January 2026).
James Alexander — Litchfield Farm, Oxfordshire — Contract farmer managing 1,500 acres across four farms (800 organic + 700 conventional), also manufacturing and selling no-till drilling equipment….
James Pick — Farmer Focus Writer — New farmer focus contributor in Issue 35 (January 2026).
Joel Salatin — American farmer, author, and regenerative agriculture icon. Farms Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Known for dramatically rebuilding …
John Cherry — Groundswell Founder, Lannock Manor Farm — Co-founder of the groundswell show, farming 2,500 acres in Hertfordshire with his brother Paul. 100% no-till since 2010. Featured farmer in Direct …
John Farrington — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues. Featured farmer in Issue 19 (October 2022).
John Pawsey — Shimpling Park Farm, Suffolk — Fourth-generation Suffolk farmer who converted to organic in 1999 and developed a CTF system, demonstrating that organic arable farming can be fina…
Julian Gold — Farmer Focus Writer — Regular farmer focus contributor appearing in 4 issues from Issue 14 (July 2021) onwards.
Lisa Hambly — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 28 (July 2024).
Louise Penn — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 33 (July 2025).
Lower Pertwood Farm — Organic on Wiltshire Chalk — 2,600-acre organic farm on chalk geology in Wiltshire, demonstrating measurable biodiversity and soil biology advantages of organic management over…
Mark Lea — Green Acres Farm, Shropshire — Organic mixed farmer profiled through Agricology, centring diversity in every aspect of the farming system — crops, business, and people. Host of N…
Martin Lines — Nature Friendly Farming Network — Chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) and mixed farmer in Cambridgeshire, combining direct drilling with extensive nature-friendly pr…
Neil White — Greenknowe Farm, Berwickshire — One of Direct Driller’s most regular farmer focus contributors (10+ issues). Farmers Weekly Arable Farmer of the Year 2023. Hosted the first Coveri…
Nick Badger — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 29 (November 2024).
Overbury Estate — Jake Freestone, Worcestershire — Estate managed by Jake Freestone, a prominent UK no-till advocate. No-till since 2003, with cover cropping and companion planting added subsequentl…
Peter Roberts — Fisher German, Agent in Focus — Associate Partner in the Agribusiness team at property consultancy Fisher German. Featured in Issue 30 (October 2024) as “Agent in Focus” — discuss…
Phil Rowbottom — Farmer Focus Writer — Regular farmer focus contributor appearing in 4 issues from Issue 18 (July 2022) onwards.
Philip Bradshaw — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 17 (April 2022) onwards.
Rob Nightingale — Agronomist / Sustainability Specialist — Agronomist featured in Issue 30 (October 2024). Career spanning farm management, agronomy, and technical sustainability. Noted for the phrase “Yiel…
Rob Raven — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 2 issues.
Ron Granger — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 28 (July 2024).
Simon Beddows — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 3 issues from Issue 24 (December 2023) onwards.
Simon Cowell — Essex No-Till Pioneer — Soil Farmer of the Year 2018 winner. Farms 400 acres of heavy clay in Essex, much below sea level. No-till for 15+ years; no P or K applied for 20+…
Simon Francis — Agronomist in Focus — New agronomist featured in Issue 29 (November 2024).
Steve Lear — Featured farmer documenting conversion from conventional tillage to direct drilling on a mixed arable/beef farm in Buckinghamshire.
Thomas Gent — Farmer Focus Writer — Farmer focus contributor appearing in 4 issues from Issue 22 (July 2023) onwards.
Tim Parton — Farmer Focus Writer — Regular farmer focus contributor appearing in 6 issues from Issue 7 (October 2019) through to Issue 27 (April 2024). Known for writing about the fu…
Todd Jex — Agronomist in Focus — Regular agronomist contributor appearing in 4 issues from Issue 24 (December 2023) onwards. Zonda/Zodiac ramularia trials in barley: +0.15 to +0.4 …
Tom Martin — Farmer Focus Writer — New farmer focus contributor in Issue 32 (May 2025).
Tom Sewell — Kent No-Till Farmer — One of Direct Driller’s most prolific farmer focus writers, appearing in 11 issues. Nuffield Scholar who travelled the world studying no-till techn…
Tony Reynolds — One of the UK’s foremost zero-till pioneers. Farms Thurlby Grange Farm near Bourne, Lincolnshire. Converted to zero-till in 2003 after two years of…
West Woodhay Estate — Traditional Hampshire/Berkshire estate that converted entirely to zero-till in 2009 and won the European Landowners’ Organisation Land and Soil Man…
Zoe Fletcher — Farmer Focus Writer — New farmer focus contributor in Issue 32 (May 2025).