Nuffield Farming Scholarships has a new scholar
Announcement: I have been awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship for 2024. As a result, I will be travelling the world to study insect production models.
11 of the 23 Nuffield scholars for 2024, including Fly2Feed’s David Tavernor
I'm thrilled beyond belief to be accepted onto such a prestigious scholarship within the agriculture world. The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust.
It is extra special that my topic of black soldier fly production is something I am passionate about and will add a lot of value to UK agriculture, as well as to my own aspirations of providing sustainable and affordable protein and fertiliser to farmers.
Black soldier fly larvae can be produced on any farming and non-farming set up and produces high quality plant and animal feed from it. Additionally, there is no waste output, in fact the feed input is human supply chain waste, so you could call the larvae net negative waste contributors.
What is the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust?
The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust is a charity organisation whose aim is to bring positive change to agriculture through the development of its future leaders, sending them overseas to learn from others and helping them share their brilliant ideas when they return home.
Since 1947, we have awarded Scholarships to over 1,000 members of the food, farming, horticulture and rural industries to study a topic they are passionate about
It all started in 1877
Lord William Nuffield
The Nuffield name and emblem, a bull riding a bicycle, both derive from the late Lord Nuffield. Born in 1877, near Worcester, William Richard Morris was a grandson of a farmer.
His journey began when he lived and worked in Oxford. He started by repairing Oxford graduates’ bicycles, then he progressed to making his own newer models. Inspired by the success of this business and embracing the developments being made in motoring technology, he then set up a motor car business.
Morris realised at an early stage in his business development that he should seek best practice in this new industry. He travelled to the emerging motor capital of Detroit to understand how the Americans were able to produce reliable cars that could undercut the price of those produced in Britain.
He successfully took on Henry Ford with a new car, the Morris Cowley, mass produced on American principles. Morris continued to travel, seeking new ideas and markets. Recognising the value of travel and study, he also sent his key employees out into the world to develop themselves and introduce new concepts to his business.
Financial success brought William Morris social recognition; he was a chronic hypochondriac and conscious of his lack of education, eager to support the research of eminent physicians and gave generously to Oxford University, whose graduates had first brought him cycles and cars to mend. As a leading industrialist and philanthropist, he was ennobled as Lord Nuffield. It is estimated that during his lifetime he was able to give away more than £30,000,000.
