Oxford Farming Conference - the social media roundup

9 January 2023

The year kicked off with another successful Oxford Farming Conference - and as you would expect, Harper Adams was strongly represented.

The School of Sustainable Food and Farming announced its Net Zero competition winners, our Senior Engagement Fellow Kit Franklin spoke in a keystone debate - and our students, scholars, staff and alumni all enjoyed the first in-person conference for two years.

Here's our round up of some of the social media highlights.

Great to be here at the Conference
Busy day ahead with talks from some great speakers ??????‍????
— Joe Bramall ?? (@JoeBramall)

Faith is one of two Breaking Barriers Scholars from Harper Adams attending this year’s conference.
— 91Pro (@HarperAdamsUni)

So proud and happy to see our Oxford Farming Conference Breaking Barrier Scholars from 2021, 2022 and 2023. Onwards and upwards for diversity and inclusion in our agricultural sector. Big thank you to and for their support.
— Navaratnam Partheeban ?? (@navaratnampart1)

Brilliant to be involved with such an important initiative with School of Sustainable Food & Farming who want to resource the farming community with focus on; #1 new talent, #2 up skilling, #3 research & #4 influence with policy
— Trinity AgTech (@TrinityAgTech)

First winner of the competition is who is focused on intercropping & proving its value at scale. “I really liked Ben’s idea - it’s got a higher harvest index, improves soil health, benefits of crop synergies and avoids monoculture.”
— Trinity AgTech (@TrinityAgTech)

Next winner of the competition is Megan Wetherall & her project on plant based fertilisers
“I want to be able to recommend it with science & data behind it to prove it works - we’re using Sandy to see a life cycle assessment of the crop.”
— Trinity AgTech (@TrinityAgTech)

Next winner of the competition is Matt Dickinson from & his project on scaling biochar use on-farm. says, “We really liked that this project looked at how biochar can be used by farmers on their own farms, at scale.”
— Trinity AgTech (@TrinityAgTech)

Final winner of the competition is Mandy Stoker and her project on ‘hot stuff’ and establishing a renewable way of heating water on her dairy farm.
“There is a massive potential to reduce carbon usage on dairy farms if we can share the knowledge.”
— Trinity AgTech (@TrinityAgTech)

‘Testing and sharing risk’ Congrats to well deserved winners Megan Wetherell Mandy Stoker And thanks to sponsors
— Noel Peatfield (@noelpeatfield)

Ready for this year’s Debate ????‍??
“This house believes humans will not be needed on farms in a generation” ??
Safe to say we have a good view, couldn’t get anyone to smile for the photo ????
— Joe Bramall ?? (@JoeBramall)

Time for the second proposer to take to the floor who suggests arable farmers could use automation and spend their summer surfing and sailing, if robots replaced humans. Lots of laughter and good human here at the Debate.
— Oxford Farming Conference (@oxfordfarming)

Glad you enjoyed it was a very great honour to be asked by to go head to head at the Oxford Union dispatch box!
Great fun although I think we had an uphill battle with the motion!
— Kit Franklin (@AgEngResearch)

It's great to see two of our Masters scholars at the Conference this week.

Today, Faith & Patrick attended as the conference started with a discussion on the future of trade where & led the session.
— Marshal Papworth (@MarshalPapworth)