Andrew Howard

Andrew Howard runs Bockhanger Farm in Kent, a 300-hectare arable farm known for its practical, innovative approach to regenerative agriculture. His system integrates solar energy, diverse rotations, intercropping, and long-term conservation tillage to improve soil health and strengthen biodiversity. The farm grows a wide mix of crops — from winter wheat and beans to lentils, camelina, linseed, herbage seed, and oilseed rape — across a variety of soil types.

Andrew has been practising strip tillage since 2007 and no-till since 2011. In 2015 he earned a Nuffield Scholarship on intercropping, a journey that has since taken him to more than 120 speaking engagements with farmers, advisors, and industry leaders. He has also worked as a consultant with Abacus Agri, supporting producers transitioning to more resilient systems.

His commitment to trialling new ideas has been widely recognised, including winning the BBC Food & Farming Award 2024 (“Farming for the Future”) and being named a finalist for Farmer’s Weekly Arable Farmer of the Year in 2016.

Andrew continues to lead on-farm research, collaborating with PGRO, Innovative Farmers, Hodmedod’s, and Innovate UK projects on AI and robotics with Manchester Metropolitan University, Royal Holloway University, and Autodiscovery Ltd. Bockhanger Farms Ltd is also a Pilot Demo Farm in the Climate Farm Demo project — a pan-European network showcasing climate-smart, practical solutions for resilient farming.