The winner and runners-up of the 2025 Carbon Farmer of the Year competition were announced at the Farm Carbon Toolkit’s Annual Field Day in Lincolnshire.
Now in its third year, the annual Carbon Farmer of the Year competition is organised by the Farm Carbon Toolkit and generously sponsored by HSBC Agriculture UK.
The competition aims to find farmers and growers who are engaged with, and passionate about, reducing their business’s climate impact through changing management practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions.
2025 Carbon Farmer of the Year Overall winner:
Stuart & Helen Rogers, Longmoor Farm, North Dorset (Dairy farmer supplying Waitrose)
2025 Carbon Farmer of the Year Runners-up:
Malcolm & Catherine Barrett, Tregooden Farm, Cornwall (Beef and arable farm)
Richard & Lyn Anthony, R&L Anthony, South Wales (Arable and forage, plus
contracting)
Competition judges, Steve Dunkley (HSBC UK), Liz Bowles (CEO Farm Carbon Toolkit) and Joanne Sharpe (Farm Carbon Toolkit Non-exec director) were very impressed with the commitment and innovation shown by all the finalists in identifying sources of GHG emissions on their farms and developing strategies to both reduce emissions and increase the rate of carbon removal into soils and non-crop biomass.
Rob Purdew, Senior Farm Advisor at Farm Carbon Toolkit, says: “Yet again, we have been blown away by the standard of entries to this year’s Carbon Farmer of the Year competition. Picking a winner has been extremely challenging, and all the finalists are a huge credit to the agricultural sector in the UK. Each of them has risen to the challenge of producing top-quality food at a time of ever-increasing scrutiny into the environmental cost of producing that food, adopting a wide range of innovative practices to minimise the carbon impact of their operations. There will be an opportunity to see all these farms up close and personal at free farm walks in the near future.”
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