Looking for a speaker for your 2025 events?

Potential Speaker for Agricultural Forums and Rural Events

I would like to introduce regenerative farming consultant William Houstoun as a potential speaker at any farming discussion groups or rural events you might be planning over the next few months.

An Angus farmer passionate about driving progressive change in agriculture and the business and political environment in which it operates from Scotland to South Africa, William has worked with farm businesses around the world and spoken at global regenerative farming forums.

William is a founding farmer of the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (www.eara.farm), a lobbying organisation promoting the redesign of agricultural policy through building resilient ecosystems across Europe. EARA is now looking to recruit more regenerative farmers as members to build the network and increase their influence.

William was a principal contributor to EARA’s White Paper, Towards a farmer-centric CAP rooted in agroecosystem health (published in April). A proposal for reshaping the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, by extension, agricultural policies outside the EU including the UK, the paper argues for a switch to hectare-based direct payments coupled to agroecological performance, farmer-empowering policy and fostering long-term simplification and planning security in the agricultural sector.

He is searching for farmers to join EARA’s fully funded pilot study which will investigate whether soil health can be assessed through satellite data of photosynthetic activity and bare ground and whether this can be used as a basis for farm funding. He is appealing for UK farmers who are regenerating their land to take part in this study in order to generate a comprehensive European picture which will hopefully make a difference to farming in the future.

It is hoped EARA’s work will play an important role in influencing the next round of CAP policy from 2027 and that the corresponding ripple effect will help direct future agricultural policy in Scotland and the UK.

William is Scotland’s first Savory Institute-accredited professional. The global non-profit organization promotes holistic management and delivers a framework for decision making and grazing planning that is regenerating land and livelihoods around the world and puts environmental, social and financial objectives on an equal footing.

As a consultant helping rural businesses examine all aspects of their enterprises, he uses Savory techniques and decades of experience to guide their transformation into holistically managed, regenerative and profitable organisations that work in harmony with nature.

He is keen for opportunities to discuss and debate regenerative – or the more active regenerating as he prefers to call it – agriculture.

For further information visit www.land.scot or tune into his interview with the OnFarm podcast https://pod.fo/e/14d47c.

I hope this may be of interest. Please let me know if you would like any further information or if you would like us to put you in touch with William.