Arable farmer of the year

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Ben Atkinson, Lincolnshire

• Ben, in partnership with father John, oversees 2451ha (6000 acres) owned, tenanted and contract farmed growing winter wheat and oilseed rape, beans and sugar beet on mainly fen soils. He is a former Farmers Weekly Barometer farmer

Andrew Gloag, North Yorkshire

• Andrew's family contract farming business has more than doubled in five years to cover 1792ha (4400 acres) of combinable crops on mainly heavy clay land. He is a former Farmers Weekly Barometer farmer

Nick Rowsell, Hampshire

• Nick grows winter wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape, spring barley and poppies as owner, tenant and contract farmer on a total of 1700ha (4200 acres)