The TAG Board of Directors
The Arable Group is run by farmers, for farmers.
Chairman
Geoff Elliott
Geoff farms as a tenant and contract farmer in Hampshire,
growing combinable crops.
   
Robert Harle
Robert farms in two family partnerships in Durham and Northumberland, which grow combinable crops as well as running beef and sheep enterprises.
Julian Hasler
Julian farms 200 hectares of mostly arable in the Cotswolds. Julian is involved in various research aspects of agriculture including the HGCA Board and R & D Committee, Rothamstead Association, NFU Combinable Board, and is the NFU spokesman on pesticide issues.
   
Poul Hoveson
Poul is the Farm & Estate Manager for a north Norfolk estate comprising 2100ha of arable land including some contract farming. Crops include wheat, barley, oilseed rape, beans, vining peas, sugar beet and christmas trees. The Estate also has an involvement in a farming operation in Poland.
Martin Jenkins
Martin farms for himself and contract farms for others to the west of Cambridge. Martin also has a farming involvement in Hungary and Serbia.
   
Alastair Leake
Alistair is head of the Game Conservancy Trust’s Allerton Project, an 800 acre mixed experimental farm in east Leicestershire, with a commercial joint farming venture with a neighbour covering a total of 2500 acres.
Robert Salmon
Robert is a director in a family farm of 515ha in mid Norfolk. In addition they contract farm 570ha for three farms in the area. Crops includes wheat, malting barley, rape, beans, oats, grass seed, sugar beet and blackcurrants. Robert’s main area of interest is improving soil structure by using rotations and other appropriate techniques.
   
   
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