Sharing knowledge, resources and research builds a better business for all. Our three speakers have first-hand experience of the benefits that come from collaborating closely with other farming businesses and across the sector.

Roger Dalrymple, Director at Waitatapia Farming, New Zealand, describes how a landscape scale collaboration and knowledge exchange is benefitting the businesses of many NZ farmers.

Will Gemmill, Executive Partner at Ceres Rural, has set up a wide range of joint ventures and agreements, including pooling labour and machinery with neighbours at his home farm on the Essex / Hertfordshire border. He explains how it works and the considerable benefits it brings to everyone.

Alison Rickett from Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENS) outlines the organisation’s trade in nature-based solutions, where farmers are already securing deals with Nestle Purina, Cereal Partners UK, West Northants Council and Anglian Water.