Email: laure.figeureu@gmail.com

Laure Figeureu-Bidaud, French, 40 years old, farmer, mother of 2 kids (8 and 10), '16 Nuffield Scholar, Nuffield FR board director in charge of Nuffield International. After having worked for 5yrs in the seed breeding business, I settled on the family farm in 2015, beside my father, before being joined by my husband in 2019. Our farm is about 600ha in Normandy (FR), we grow field crops over 550ha (cereals, rapeseed, fiber flax, sugar beets and maize). The rest being grass, which we cultivate for our dairy cows (800kL with 1 milking robot). I have run an organic raspberry business for local markets for 10yrs. We are now almost done with our succession process which allows us to undertake new projects: buying of a new field robot (AgXeed), building a biogas unit, running a guesthouse for groups (25p). Our vision is to diversify our businesses to look for more sustainability. I am also involved in the dehydration industry, as the chairwoman of our cooperative, which harvests 2600ha of alfalfa and dehydrate 50 kT of sugarbeets'pulp pellets, for a total turnover of about 20M, including an annual budget closed to 500k of European carbon credits (ECTS).

Phone: +33686923497 

Email: marie.moineau27@gmail.com

2024 Nuffield France scholar

Email: b-defressanges@laposte.net

Baptiste de Fressanges, from Coulondon in France, received a 2015 Nuffield Scholarship supported by France Gnetique levage. He studied methods to reduce the costs in intensive systems for suckler cows. Baptiste is responsible for the breeding in family's farm. He manages feeding, reproduction and genetic for 120 suckler cows. He works with his brother who manages the crops including wheat, sunflower, canola and barley on 250 hectares. Breeding cows is expensive in France and Baptiste wanted to research and determine if there are solutions for reduce the costs. He also researched the market of the beef to understand and adapt his production system.

Email: max.moinard@gmail.com

After several years working in Ivory Coast, Africa (Palm oil, corn seed) and French Polynesia (Dairy, Composting), Maxime came back in 2018 on the family farm, which is mixed operation producing grains and livestock with 150 Limousine cows, and 400 ha in the Marais Poitevin in Vende, in the west of France. The farm is constitued of three sites, representative of the local landscapes : dry swamps, plains and woodland meadows. After having built 4000 m of photovoltaic panels in 2011, Maxime has the ambition to build an anaerobic digestor running with local manure and waste for local green energy. However Maxime and his family are always searching news opportunities to develop their profit. They are constantly at the listening of the consumers, searching quality products and environmental preservation. That's why an organic conversion in the early years is not excluded. The subject of his 2016 Nuffield study was : How to create value from livestock effluents in general, and in particular integration of a methanisation unit on the farm. For his study he visited Scotland, Wales, England, Nederlands, Germany, Canada and USA to research biogaz technology, insect farming and algae conversion. Maxime is married to Alicia and they are proud parents of a 9 months old little girl. They enjoy trekking, travelling, oenology, movies and naturalism.