The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) is now accepting nominations for the 2025 RASE Awards, celebrating excellence, innovation, and leadership in British agriculture.
These prestigious awards honour individuals and organisations making an outstanding impact on farming, land management, and Agri-tech.
The 2025 awards feature six categories:
- National Agricultural Award – Recognising individuals or organisations shaping the future of British agriculture through innovation, leadership, and advocacy.
- Excellence in Practical Farming Award – Celebrating farmers applying cutting-edge science and management to create resilient, productive, and sustainable farms.
- Natural Capital Award – Showcasing those integrating environmental stewardship into their farm businesses, proving that sustainability and profitability go hand in hand.
- Farm of the Future Award – Recognising pioneers developing transformative, circular farming systems.
- Science & Technology Award – Honouring those at the forefront of research and innovation in agricultural science and technology.
- Bledisloe Gold Medal for Landowners – Recognising outstanding estate management and land stewardship.
Mark Tufnell, chair of RASE, explains that the RASE Awards acknowledge and celebrate the people whose contributions are fueling ongoing progression in the agricultural industry.
“The winners of the RASE Awards will be people who are consistently innovating, demonstrating excellence and responding to the challenges impacting our industry with tenaciousness and determination,” he says.
The 2025 RASE Awards Day will take place at the Ragley Estate in Warwickshire, which received the Bledisloe Gold Medal for Landowners in 2024. Following the awards ceremony and lunch, the winners, sponsors and invited guests will be given a tour of the estate.
Paul Sedgwick, from The Crown Estate and judge of the 2025 RASE Farm of the Future Award, says “Previous winners in this category have shown real innovation in how we maintain our domestic food supply while ensuring farms continue to be at the forefront of our fight against climate change.
“At a time where the vital role our farmers play is in the spotlight like never before, there really couldn’t be a better year to celebrate the pioneers of our industry.”
All the awards welcome both self-nominations and recommendations. Among the categories, there are opportunities for farmers, researchers, industry professionals and landowners to be nominated for the awards.
The applications for all six of the RASE Awards will be open until 28th April, 2025. Full entry criteria and nomination forms are available on the RASE website at https://www.rase.org.uk/about-us/awards/.
