THREE young farmers have been hand picked to attend an international colloquium in Germany by Oxford Farming Conference.

Organisers of the annual agricultural assembly will pay for the students to join the the Young Farmers’ Conference in Hanover in November.

They will also attend Agritechnica, described as the ‘world’s leading machinery trade fair.

Robert Proud, Alice Clews and Jordan Clark, who all attended the Oxford Farming Conference in January as part of its scholarship programme, will be fully funded by tractor manufacturer Massey Ferguson.

It is part of a collaboration in its fourth year between the two leading agricultural institutions, the OFC and Germany’s Young DLG, the youth network of the German Agricultural Society.

The visit to Agritechnica, held in Hanover November 12-18, aims to give young people involved in British and German agriculture a ‘networking and learning opportunity’, through the youth conference, farm visits and at the exhibition itself which attracts more than 2,900 exhibitors.

Oxford Farming Conference chairwoman Caroline Millar said: “At the core of the Oxford Farming Conference is networking and learning from others, and this is a wonderful opportunity for the next generation of agriculturalists to do exactly this, meeting people they may not otherwise meet, seeing a different perspective and taking home new ideas that they can share and integrate in to their own businesses and networks.