John Cresswell
2025
After studying at Wye College, John worked at a farm manager in Suffolk and Lochaber. He subsequently returned to farm in a family partnership in Northumberland. Activities are mainly organic, and currently include combinable crops, sheep, suckler cattle and pigs with considerable Stewardship activity. He has worked as a consultant on large cropping agroholdings in Ukraine. He is a director of College Valley Estates and a Northumberland Wildlife Trust trustee.
My Sessions
Can protected sites be improved through regenerative farming?
Judicaelle Hammond
John Cresswell
Annette McDonald
Ben McCarthy
Farming on protected sites such as SSSIs can be subject to many restrictions. Yet only 38% of SSSIs are in favourable condition. Our panel will share their experience of using regenerative farming to sustain farming incomes, enhance the environment and help meet the UK’s 30by30 commitment, on in-hand farms and working with farming tenants. We […]