Whitegrove Competition

Geoff Hallam of Brownhills Farm is the winner of the 2025 Whitegrove Farm Conservation Trophy which is kindly sponsored by Staffordshire & Birmingham Agricultural Society. The competition assesses how environmental management is successfully integrated into commercial farming. The family run farm extends to 81ha of mainly permanent grassland and is located in the Peak District […]

John Billington is the winner of the 2024 Whitegrove Farm Conservation Trophy which is kindly sponsored by Staffordshire & Birmingham Agricultural Society. The competition assesses how environmental management is successfully integrated into commercial farming.   This family farm extends to 260ha of arable land north of Newport, in west Staffordshire.  Arable cropping includes winter wheat,

Forge Farm is part of a 600 acre estate within the Sandwell Valley comprising woodland, pools, wet and species-rich grassland grazed by cattle and sheep together with a small area of arable cropping.   Alexandra Dunn, the Farm Manager has been very successful in maintaining and enhancing the environmental features of the holding. These include

Lower Drayton Farm located near Penkridge, has been awarded the county farm conservation competition for 2022.  Managed by the Bower family, this mixed farm extends to approximately 200ha and cultivates a diversity of combinable crops.  The business also grows pumpkins, carrots and potatoes to complement the general public amenity activities on the farm.   During

North Staffordshire farming business, C.J.C Stone of Onecote Grange, Onecote, were the winners of the 2019 Whitegrove Trophy Staffordshire Farm Conservation Competition.  This annual competition is open to farmers/landowners and land managers throughout Staffordshire who encourage conservation alongside successful commercial agriculture.   Onecote Grange is a 300 acre, family-run, upland, 150-head dairy enterprise that has

The 2018 Staffordshire Farm Conservation Competition, the Whitegrove Trophy, has been awarded to J S Billington, Adbaston Hall.  This is annually awarded to the farmer in Staffordshire who has demonstrated the best conservation practice alongside successful commercial agriculture.   Adbaston Hall is a family run farm committed to environmental improvements alongside environmental responsible farming.  Their

P G Galbraith of Shebdon Farm, Shebdon, Stafford, was the winner of the 2017 Whitegrove Trophy competition, which is sponsored by the Staffordshire & Birmingham Agricultural Society. The family-run farm extends 164ha of arable and grassland north of Newport, in West Staffordshire.  Arable cropping includes winter wheat and barley, along with spring oats.  The grassland