I was asked to take some photographs for an exhibition on the theme of diversity for the January 2024 Oxford Farming Conference – ‘diversity’ meaning both social diversity, and diversity of farming enterprise. It was a treat of a job, an excuse to wander the length of Britain talking to and photographing extraordinary people. What began as a continuation of the images I’d already taken while researching Field Work billowed out into something closer to a record of farming now. Here’s a few.