Winners of the 2019 Devon Farm Business Awards announced

17 May

Once again, the Devon Farm Business Awards didn’t fail to entertain. With just over 200 people enjoying the evening filled with fantastic food, wine and well-deserved category winner celebrations. Those who attended dug deep with generous bids on our fantastic prizes and the awards ceremony raised £3,400 through the raffle and auction lots alone.

The 2019 winners of the Devon Farm Business Awards

We cannot thank those enough who donated prizes, entered our categories, nominated their family, friends and colleagues and supported our awards evening until the very end. With continuous support throughout the awards from our category sponsors and the general public, we can now help more farmers in need throughout the county of Devon.

Many thanks to our main sponsors, Stephens Scown for their continuous support throughout the making of the awards and for doing such a great job in presenting the category winners on the night. A huge thank you to our category sponsors for their support and for investing so much time into judging and picking the lucky winners. We’d also like to thank you for believing in the importance of the Farm Business Awards and taking part in something so crucial: supporting our charity and supporting our British farmers.

This year, Mark Neason reminded us of how unique and sentimental to the people of Devon The CAAV John Neason Diversification Award is. He presented the audience with a lovely speech which highlighted his late father’s contribution to Devon agriculture. With that in mind, a huge congratulations to Luke and Emily Knight, Knights Farm for winning The CAAV John Neason Diversification Award 2019.

The CAAV John Neason Diversification Award

Sponsored by CAAV

Luke and Emily Knight, Knights Farm

Following Mark was Susie Murray, Stephens Scown LLP, who is a real natural on stage, announcing our well-deserved winners up to collect their trophies. Well done to all of those who made it to the finals and a huge congratulations to our winners of 2019.

Best Commercial Farmer

Sponsored by PKF Francis Clark

Rob and Matt Cotton, R & P Farming

Rob and Matt Cotton with Andy Squires from PKF Francis Clark

Best Woman in Agriculture

Sponsored by NatWest

Jo Jones, Dairyfield

Jo Jones with Richard Townsend from NatWest

Best Farm Processor

Sponsored by Cornish Mutual

James and Ben Harvey, Langage Farm

James Harvey with Paul Mahon from Cornish Mutual

Best Dairy Farmer

Sponsored by Crediton Dairy

The Knapman family at Shilstone Farm

Richard and Laura Knapman with Phil Cork from Crediton Dairy

Best Young Farmer

Sponsored by Savills

Becky Dennis

Farming Champion

Sponsored by the NFU

David Horton

Devon’s Farmer of the Year

Sponsored by Mole Valley

Rob and Matt Cotton, R & P Farming

Rob and Matt Cotton with Graeme Cock of Mole Valley

This year we would like to give a special ‘Thank You’ to our main sponsors Stephens Scown, all of our category sponsors, the DCAA and the Showground, Gray’s Country Gifts, Manteux Clothing, Langham Wines, Exeter Golf Club, Deer Park Country House, Barclays Bank, Kivells, Bartletts Farm Shop, Royal Cornwall Show, Exeter Chiefs, Darts Farm Shop and Saunton Sands Hotels.

Thank you to the outstanding James Morrish from Kivells for doing a wonderfully charming job of compering the evening and thank you to the NFU President, Minette Batters, for an inspirational and extremely motivational resume of British agriculture.

The awards may have been and gone for this year, but we are still very busy here at the Addington Fund. Click here for more information about which shows we are attending and what we have coming up next.

devon farm awards

Lynne Dickens

Spot On Creative is a Northants-based creative team who have the hard-earned skills, expertise and industry knowledge that only come from having worked for years in advertising. It’s all managed by Lynne Dickens who has over 20 years’ experience in marketing communications, and ten years in website design and build, and creative team project management.

Lynne is also a qualified art historian and has some expertise in curating fine art exhibitions and producing all of the catalogues, posters and supporting material to create a successful event.

All the guys in our team have worked for one-man bands, SMEs and large blue-chip multinationals in just about every sector, field and industry. We can come up with great ideas, superb design and copy, and exceptional photography for anything from websites to email campaigns, branding to brochures – and everything in between.

And the beauty of Spot On Creative is that we’re big in creativity, experience and knowledge, but small in overheads and invoices. So we’re a much more sensible and affordable option for you than a larger advertising agency or marketing company.