Andrew Brown is a Rutland farmer born and bred.  He is a past High Sheriff of Rutland. He also sits on the Cambridgeshire bench as a presiding magistrate in the adult courts. The farm is 60% arable and 40% permanent pasture. The farm is in a major conservation scheme which has planted pollen and nectar strips and wild birdseed plots as well as a 3Ha community woodland. The farm has won several local, regional and national awards for his conservation work whilst maintaining a viable and productive commercial farm. He hosts school trips and goes into schools to promote British food and farming.

He is a former National Farmers Union East Midlands Regional Chairman. He has been on the Board of the Home Grown Cereals Authority, The Oxford farming Conference, The Commercial Farmers Group and the Farmers Club in Whitehall. He is a Fellow Practitioner of the Society of Agriculture, a member the Worshipful Company of Farmers and has achieved the status of Chartered Environmentalist. He has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies. He is a Freeman of the City of London, a former Trustee of the Rutland Agricultural Society and of the Leicester Comedy Festival. In 2017 he won the Leicester Comedy Festival ‘Stand-up Challenge’ and has done comedy gigs in various locations around the country and even as far afield as Tasmania and Vermont. As well as having an engineering degree in 2019 he gained a post graduate law degree with merit from De Montfort University and in 2024 a Masters in Environmental Law with distinction.