Online CPD Session: Lead. Connect. Grow: A Review of the National Farm Management Conference
Key insights and reflections from the National Farm Management Conference, highlighting current challenges, opportunities and trends shaping farm business management.
Guest Speakers:

is the Farms Director for Velcourt across the Midlands, with over 30 years’ experience of Farm Estate business management. Overseeing a large farms team and a diverse range of farming businesses specialising in combinable crop production, energy crops, root crops, livestock and countryside stewardship. Raised in East Yorkshire, family farming led to Newcastle University and a desire to manage complex rural businesses. Leading and managing business change has been a large part the day job in recent years as landed rural estates adapt to the changing economic environment and family requirements.

is an independent natural capital consultant. She is an Agricultural Valuer, a Chartered Surveyor and a Chartered Environmentalist with 30 years’ experience of rural land management in practice, policy and academia.
Kate founded Tellus Natural Capital Ltd in 2021 to advise and support farmers and landowners across the UK to prepare for and take advantage of emerging new markets in ecosystem services. She advises clients in the private, public and voluntary sectors on biodiversity net gain, nutrient neutrality, carbon and natural flood management and has worked on a number of grant-funded Landscape Recovery and NEIRF projects. She speaks widely to groups of farmers, businesses and students on the subject of natural capital.
Being chaired by Tanya Arnold, BBC Presenter
