Abigail joined Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust in 2021 as our Farming and Conservation Officer. With a BSc in Biology from the University of Durham and a BASIS Foundation in Agronomy from Harper Adams, Abigail has a keen interest in farming and the environment. Her career started in plant pathology, looking at diseases including the agriculturally significant fusarium and septoria. When the opportunity arose to get out and visit growers across the country as a pesticide usage surveyor Abigail took it, spending more than five years engaging with and learning from farms across the varied sectors to gather annual pesticide usage data and surrounding agronomic information, to inform a set of widely used national estimates.
In her spare time Abigail enjoys walking and trail running, camping and swimming and looking after her allotment.
