Newton Farms is a progressive mixed farm based in the village of Newton in South Cambridgeshire. The farm has been run by Henry Hurrell since 1972 and George his eldest son was incorporated into the business in 2015 following a stint working within the Agri-Business team for a leading land agency in Norfolk. In 2018, Jack Hurrell joined the business to create a family farming partnership.
Newton Farms operates across six sites in Cambridgeshire. The first being in Newton where 1000 ha of land is farmed. This is a combination of land owned, rented and farmed under contract farming agreements. The second farm is situated in the village of Swaffham Prior where 800 ha of land is farmed. Half the farm at Swaffham Prior is irrigated from our reservoir with the majority of the remainder benefiting from a neighbours bore hole. A further 90 ha of land is farmed in the village of Stretham near Ely, and this farm has an abstraction licence to remove water from the River Ouse.
In 2015, Newton Farms entered into a contract farming agreement across 200 ha of land at Mill and Dells Farm, Great Chesterford. This farm is on relatively heavy clay and is undulating.
In 2022 Newton Farms took on the farming of Vicarage Farm, Swaffham Prior and Rectory Farm, Little Shelford.