Olly Harrison

Former NFU Combinable Crops Board member, North West

Olly farms 950 acres on the urban fringe near to Liverpool. He farms a mixture of owned, tenanted and share farmed ground along with some contracting.

Cropping includes wheat feed, malting barley, oilseed rape and beans, all of which is direct drilled.

Olly also rents out office accommodation in converted barns that used to house cattle. Alongside the arable enterprise, he recycles tree waste into biomass and some composting.

Olly also represents the NFU Combinable Crops Board on the Red Tractor Crops & Sugar Beet Board.