Alex Brewster, Perthshire regenerative beef, sheep, and Organic free-range egg producer, farming over 1000ha of upland grazing. Soil Farmer of the year 2020, Nuffield Scholar, and Director of Powered Pasture Ltd. Enthusiastic about all things soil, microbiology, and mob grazing.

Rhys Williams lives on a 60-hectare family farm on the Llyn Peninsula, managing 1000 dry hoggets and 150 contract-reared dairy heifers using a low-input, rotational grazing system. He spent 15 years as a lecturer and manager at Glynllifon land-based College near Caernarfon and now works as a farm business consultant for Precision Grazing Ltd, advising on grazing management. In 2016, Rhys co-founded Coed Coch Farms Ltd, a joint venture with landowner Harry Fetherstonhaugh and farmer Emyr Jones, running 2200 New Zealand Romney ewes. He is passionate about financially and environmentally sustainable farming.

Mae Rhys Williams yn byw ar fferm deuluol 60 hecter ar Benrhyn Llŷn, yn cadw 1000 o wyn benyw sych ac yn magu 150 o heffrod llaeth ar system pori cylchdro, mewnbwn isel. Bu’n ddarlithydd a rheolwr yng Ngholeg Glynllifon ger Caernarfon am 15 mlynedd ac mae’n ymgynghorydd busnes fferm i Precision Grazing Ltd. Yn 2016, cyd-sefydlodd Coed Coch Farms Ltd gyda Harry Fetherstonhaugh ac Emyr Jones, gan redeg 2200 o fogau Romney Seland Newydd. Mae’n frwdfrydig am ffermio cynaliadwy yn ariannol ac amgylcheddol.

Alasdair MacLeod is Executive Chairman of the Macdoch Group (https://www.macdoch.com), a private investment company with offices in London and Sydney.

In Australia, his Macdoch Ag Group comprises a group of innovative businesses striving to show how a resilient agricultural sector builds natural capital and contributes to global climate solutions. These operations include beef cattle, wool growing and cropping, with experienced successful practitioners working to scale up its approach by working hand in hand with farmers and farm communities across thousands of hectares. The Group employs agri-tech, applied R&D, and empirical data to demonstrate how livestock are an indispensable part of resilient farming systems.

Alasdair is Chair is of the Macdoch Foundation, a philanthropic body whose work includes a ground-breaking farming analysis and community engagement project called Farming for the Future  (https://farmingforthefuture.org.au/). He also chairs Soils for Life, a not-for-profit entity focussed on encouraging greater uptake of regenerative farming ideas (https://soilsforlife.org.au).

Patrick Holden - The Sustainable Food Trust Patrick Holden, CBE, farms 200 hectares in west Wales producing cheese from the milk of 80 Ayrshire cows. It is now the longest established organic dairy farm in Wales. He has been advising the Prince of Wales on sustainability issues since 1982, the year when he launched British Organic Farmers. He is the founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, whose mission is to work internationally to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food system.

Plant & Soil Health Consultant

Joel Williams is an independent educator and consultant specialising in soil health, plant nutrition, and sustainable farming. With a degree in Agricultural Science from Australia, he focuses on microbial ecology and crop-soil nutrition to boost plant immunity, soil function, and carbon capture. Joel has worked across Europe with both conventional and organic systems, using integrated soil and plant assessments to guide crop management. Passionate about teaching, he shares scientific and practical insights into agroecological practices. He is currently in Canada on sabbatical, completing an MSc in Food Policy and writing a book on soil-plant-microbiome relationships.

Bill is an ecologist and soil scientist, and a founding principal of The Fifth Estate Consultancy. He provides strategic and technical advice in Australia, the UK and the USA to forestry, agribusiness, and circular manufacturing companies. His recent assignments have focussed on timber plantation resources, soil carbon measurement and monetisation, regenerative farming and agroforestry, natural capital and nature repair, and renewable energy for regional industries. Bill holds a PhD in biogeochemistry in natural ecosystems and is an Academic Visitor at Linacre College, Oxford University, where he has taught in masters’ and undergraduate programs.

Allen Williams is a 6th generation family farmer and founding partner of Understanding Ag, LLC, the Soil Health Academy, and Regenified, LLC. He has consulted with thousands of farmers and ranchers in the U.S. and 45+ other countries, on operations ranging from a few acres to over 2 million acres.

Allen pioneered many of the early regenerative grazing protocols and forage finishing techniques and now teaches those practices and principles to farmers globally. He is a “recovering academic”, having served 15 years on the faculty at Louisiana Tech University and Mississippi State University. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Animal Science from Clemson University and a Ph.D. in Genetics & Physiology from LSU. He has authored more than 400 scientific and popular press articles, and is an invited speaker at regional, national, and international conferences and symposia.

A former Land Agent, Michael found tweed just too itchy and moved to SAC as an Agricultural Consultant where he learned more from his clients than his clients learned from him. One day he told his wife he was going to buy 10 sheep to start a flock, he came back with 50; all purchased on a credit card.  Michael is surprisingly still married and the Credit Card company phones every day.

He is a Nuffield Scholar, hosts a podcast called The Pasture Pod and still does some consultancy.  His main job is mincing about with his 750 sheep and 80 cows on his tenanted farm in Perthshire.

In early 2023 The Pasture Pod released a six part series called “It’s About Time” that put forward the hypothesis that time and how we use it is the third dimension to farming. A dimension we know is there but simply don’t see it properly and definitely don’t address in meaningful ways.

Dafydd Wynne Finch Has been farming in North Wales for 22 years in which time he has transitioned his operations from beef and sheep farming to milk production from grazed grass with each farm being operated by share milkers. He is of the view that they are economically and socially sustainable but questions if they are environmentally so.