Joe Stanley ARAgS

Head of Sustainable Farming at the GWCT’s Allerton Project

Joe Stanley, ARAgS, is an experienced farmer and conservationist and since 2021 Head of Sustainable Farming at the GWCT’s Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire/Rutland border which has been investigating sustainable farming and landscape management since 1992.

Joe is also active in the wider agricultural industry, acting as county chair of Leicestershire, Northants and Rutland National Farmers Union (NFU) and sitting on the NFU national Environment Forum. He is a regular columnist for Farmers Weekly and Countryside among other publications, and author of ‘Farm to Fork: The Challenge of Sustainable Faming in 21st Century Britain’ released in 2021.

In 2020 he received the NFU’s national ‘Meurig Raymond Award’ for his industry advocacy, followed by Associateship of the Royal Agricultural Societies in 2022.