How Simon Best has taken learnings from sport and applied them to farming

Right drills and going with the grain saw the former Ireland captain scoop Best UK arable farmer of 2021
How Simon Best has taken learnings from sport and applied them to farming

Simon and Rory Best on their family farm in Poyntzpass, Co Armagh

From a player’s first game of rugby, it is “drilled into” them that they must leave the jersey in a better condition than they found it - and the same applies to farming, Irish rugby legend Simon Best told delegates at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.

“We did not inherit this land from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” Mr Best said.

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