The Oxford Farming Conference

To book your ticket for OFC2023, click here.

In-person tickets, to join us in Oxford, will close on 16 December 2022.

Digital tickets, to watch online, will close on 2 January 2023.

This session is only open to OFC Scholars and will take place at the Examination Schools. If you are a Scholar, you will receive an email ahead of the conference with more information.

Supply Chain Synergies: What is the appropriate role of supply chains in achieving responsible production at farm level?

Speaker: Lesley Mitchell, Forum for the Future

The launch will take place at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and is included with your OFC conference ticket. Space is on a first-come basis so we recommend arriving early to get a seat.

This session will run from 16:30 to 17:30

As part of a series of fringe events at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference and Oxford Real Farming Conference, Innovative Farmers will host a ‘Great Beer Debate’ on Wednesday 4 January 2023. The Innovative Farmers' Great Beer Debate is an opportunity to discuss some of the challenges we all face, while celebrating great produce grown by British farmers. This event requires booking, it is not included in your ticket. Click "more" to find the link.

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Led by OFC Director Will Evans, this special (and short!) run is hosted in memory of Mike Potter, a friend and keen supporter of the Oxford Farming Conference.

Join Oxford Farming Conference sponsor, GrowUp Farms, at this year's event for a breakfast session focused on collaboration across the British farming ecosystem...however you grow.  As GrowUp opens their newest farm in Kent, they're more focused than ever on the diversity and innovation needed to create a truly resilient food system for the UK.

GrowUp's founder, Kate Hofman, will facilitate an interactive workshop exploring opportunities for collaboration and integration between conventional and vertical growers. She'll be joined by GrowUp's Impact Director (and Sheep Farmer) Gillon Dobie, and Head of Projects (and Arable Farmer) Ben Logan for what we hope will be an engaging discussion over pastries and coffee. 

This breakfast session is open to any delegate who has purchased a ticket to attend OFC and will take place at the Oxford Examination Schools.To join and help manage catering, book your complimentary place, using the GrowUp Farm Eventbrite link found in your member area. Click here to login.

OFC Chair, Emily Norton opens the first session of #OFC23, hosted at the Examination Schools. This session will run from 09:30 to 12:00

Jojo Mehta, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Stop Ecocide International, and Kyle Lischak, Head of UK, ClientEarth

Jane Davidson, Author of #Futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country

OFC Honorary President, HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne

Chair: Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive, Food, Farming and Countryside Commission. To help navigate decisions about how land is used in England, government has committed to introducing a Land Use Framework. But what is this, and what does it mean in practice for farm businesses? The Food, Farming & Countryside Commission (FFCC) will host a conversation between farmers and policymakers exploring how a Land Use Framework needs to work in order for farm businesses to flourish and for government to achieve its targets for climate and nature, food security, productivity and rural regeneration.

This lunchtime panel session is open to any delegate who has purchased a ticket to attend OFC and will take place at the Oxford Examination Schools.To join and help manage catering, book your complimentary place, using the FFCC Eventbrite link found in your member area. Click here to login.

James Alexander, Finance Earth, Beccy Speight, Chief Executive for RSPB and Jamie Butler from Meon Springs.

Mairi Gougeon,Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands, Scottish Government / George Burgess, Interim Director of Agriculture and Rural Economy, Scottish Government / Jannine McMahon, Moss Lane Farm.

Join Trinity Natural Capital Group at Oxford Farming Conference 2023 for an interactive and unique session looking at decision-making and implementation. To farm a new future, we cannot do what we have always done.During this networking event, you will be guided by expert speakers to explore your own mindset. Discover how our individual mindsets impact our decision making and affect the implementation of new management practices. Explore how we can change our own mindsets and discover tools to change the mindsets of others. This session will help us find out more about ourselves, the people around us, and how we can forge better connections to work collaboratively to farm a new future. Drinks and canapés provided.

This lunchtime panel session is open to any delegate who has purchased a ticket to attend OFC and will take place at the Oxford Examination Schools.To join and help manage catering, book your complimentary place, using the Trinity Natural Capital Group registration link found in your member area. Click here to login.

Motion: This house believes that humans will not be needed on farms in a generation. Propose: Simon Pearson and Kit Franklin. Oppose: David Rose and Ben Taylor Davies. The debate will run from 18:45 – 19:30, please note space is limited at the Oxford Union debate chamber. Space is allocated on a first-come basis, with priority offered to those who pre-registered when purchasing their ticket.

This event is not included in your conference ticket but booking is available via the OFC Booking system. Tickets cost £90 plus VAT and on a first-come basis.

Feeding an ever-growing population, conserving nature, economic uncertainty and responding to a changing climate. There has never been a more challenging time for farming, farmers, and the industry. That’s why BASF believe farming is the biggest job on earth. In this breakfast session at the Oxford Farming Conference, you’ll hear from farmers from both at home and abroad who are continuously battling these challenges whilst balancing the need to produce high-quality food and care for the natural environment for future generations. Farming, the Biggest Job on Earth provides a platform for those within the industry to share their stories and advocate for UK agriculture at a time when we need it the most. To show your support, join this session and receive a free Biggest Job on Earth T-Shirt.

Breakfast will be included.

This breakfast session is open to any delegate who has purchased a ticket to attend OFC and will take place at the Oxford Examination Schools.To join and help manage catering, book your complimentary place, using the BASF Eventbrite link found in your member area. Click here to login.

This session will run from 09:30 to 12:00. Lunch will be available after the event.

Mary Quicke from Quicke's Traditional Ltd, Chris Jones from Woodland Valley Farm and Salih Hodzhov from WB Chambers Farms Ltd

Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank

The School of Sustainable Food and Farming at Harper Adams University will be hosting a session looking at both the challenges and the solutions of farming for a more sustainable future. The School; supported by its steering partners Morrisons, McDonalds UK & Ireland and National Farmers Union aims to Educate, Inspire and Empower current and future farmers to achieve net zero within a sustainable farming and food system. The School has recently run a ‘Journey to NetZero’ challenge competition supported and sponsored by Bradford Estates, Harper Adams University, McDonalds UK & Ireland, Morrisons, National Farmers Union, Trinity AgTech and Trinity Global Pioneers. The competition has encouraged UK farmers to apply for a share of a prize pot which can be used to support the development or implementation of a system, process or processes which will have a positive and measurable impact on how winners can farm in a sustainable way.

As part of the session ‘Farming for a Sustainable Future’ we will announce the winners of the competition and share details of the journeys they will be going on to implement those sustainable processes and practices into their farming systems. As well as announcing our competition winners we will also have a number of topical talks and case studies all focused around the journey to net zero and supporting the sector to farm in a more sustainable way working towards a better, more secure future for farming.

This lunchtime panel session is open to any delegate who has purchased a ticket to attend OFC and will take place at the Oxford Examination Schools.To join and help manage catering, book your complimentary place, using The School of Sustainable Food and Farming  Eventbrite link found in your member area. Click here to login.