Tom McVeigh
2025
Tom McVeigh is a 13th generation farmer in Suffolk. Upon returning to his family farm four years ago, he became involved in the SFI pilot scheme and began altering the farms practices in line with the move away from BPS payments. He was awarded funding through the Nuffield farming trust to write a paper investigating walnuts and hazelnuts as a crop alternative, the details of which he now hopes to share with other farmers.
My Sessions
The viability of walnuts and hazelnuts as commodity crops
This session is born from a question: What can I grow which is high value, has low labour requirement and can yield reliably in a changing climate. In the 20th century the UK had a domestic industry for walnuts and hazelnuts which was grubbed out in favour of the more highly mechanised cereal cropping system. […]