BOFIN founder, Oxfordshire arable farmer and award-winning journalist with 23 years’ experience in communications to an arable farming audience. Tom has key strengths in conveying technical innovations, engendering trust from a farming audience and knowing how a farmer thinks.

The British On-Farm Innovation Network (BOFIN) was founded in September 2020. They currently have over 700 members, 60% of whom are farmers who carry out their own on-farm trials and share their results, seeking scientifically robust ways to progress their farm practice. The rest of the membership are scientists who carry out this work, innovators, knowledge exchange managers.