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South of England Farming Conference

 

Event Date: 01/11/2023 5:30 pm - 01/11/2023 9:30 pm

‘Charlotte Smith (Chair)
Charlotte Smith is one of two main presenters of BBC Radio 4‘s Farming Today. She grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, where she volunteered on BBC Radio Leicester. Charlotte was then put on the BBC’s Local Radio Reporters Scheme before touring the local radio stations of Sussex, Cumbria and Devon. She then returned to Radio Leicester as a news reporter working alongside Julian Worricker. She also worked on BBC national radio, The World Tonight. More locally to Leicestershire, she became a reporter and sports presenter on East Midlands Today. Returning to national radio on BBC 5 Live, she was a producer, reporter and presenter. Prior to Farming Today Charlotte worked as a reporter for You and Yours, the lunch-time consumer programme on Radio 4. She has also since been a television reporter on BBC1’s Countryfile, until 2009, and returned as an occasional relief reporter from 2014. Charlotte is also a mother of two children.

Sue Pritchard
Sue Pritchard is Chief Executive of the independent charity, the Food, Farming, and Countryside Commission (FFCC). Before FFCC, Sue worked in leadership, strategy, culture, and change, with a portfolio career as a consultant and coach, a researcher, and writer, and non-executive, including non-executive director and then chair of a Local Health Board in Wales. Sue has held Visiting and Honorary Fellowships at Salford University, Leeds University, Ashridge Business School, and University College, London, typically working with consortia of public and private sector organisations on large scale systems change, and leading and delivering major and complex projects. Sue is an Independent Governor at the Royal Agricultural University, a Trustee of CoFarm Foundation and sits on several academic advisory boards. She farms a Soil Association accredited organic livestock farm in Monmouthshire, with a focus on farming for conservation.

Phil Jarvis
Phil Jarvis is Chair of Albanwise Farming and Environment. Albanwise Farming manages land and estates in Norfolk and Yorkshire. Sugar beet, cereals and oil seed rape, maize and potatoes form a major part of the arable rotation. Albanwise Environment manages wetland, woodland, hedgerows, peatland and agri-environment habitats. Phil also Chairs the Voluntary Initiative championing best plant protection product use delivered through Integrated Pest Management. Phil previously worked at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Allerton Project, in Leicestershire. Phil started as the farm manager and progressed to Head of Farming, Training and Partnerships. Phil is member and former Chair of the National Farmers Union, Environmental Forum and Vice-Chair of the NFU National Combinable Crops Board. Phil completed a MSc in Sustainable Agricultural Management at Harper Adams University in 2011 and between 2016 -2019 was a member of the BBSRC Agriculture and Food Security, Strategy Advisory Panel. Phil is a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Management.’

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