Season's greetings: You can keep learning with TIAH over Christmas, but please note all enquiries will be picked up on January 5.

Introducing TIAH

If you own, or work in an agriculture or horticulture business, we provide tailored advice and practical tools that are needed to help develop skills and lifelong learning.

If you'd like to work in farming or growing, we are the gateway to advice, support, and training you'll need to pursue a rewarding career.

How to get started

Grower reviewing her CPD needs with seedlings in background. Picture: Shutterstock.com/SeventyFour

Manage your development

We're here to support you in finding the right courses and tools for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), so you can develop and add to your current knowledge and skills.

From free online learning resources to formal courses with training providers, we're bringing everything you need to manage your CPD in one place and make it easier for you to find the resources you want.

Grower reviewing her CPD needs with seedlings in background. Picture: Shutterstock.com/SeventyFour
Farmers tackling a training course at Vicky Anderson Training, Northallerton. Graeme Gill (right) and Bede Wilkinson. Picture: John Eveson.

Essential Skills

We're providing online learning opportunities to existing and new farmers and growers, to continually improve skills and knowledge.

Our Essential Skills courses allow everyone in farming and growing to get a solid foundation of core knowledge.

And our innovative Learning Hub will monitor and save your progress, so you can learn at your own pace.

Join TIAH

Evidence your professionalism, enhance your skills and help shape the future of farming and growing.

Earn the recognition your professional farming and growing skills deserve by becoming a member of TIAH.

If you’re interested in membership for four or more people, please register your details.

Get career support, demonstrate your commitment and be part of a community of like-minded people.

Careers information

Find information on the many jobs available in farming and growing. We can help you understand the skills you’ll need, and the opportunities to progress in your career.

We're also working with careers advisers to highlight the range of exciting careers farming and growing offers, through our Industry Careers Action Plan.

We're working with researchers and policy experts to upskill the workforce.

Policy and research

We aim to lead and co-ordinate action in key areas to support a thriving agriculture and horticulture industry.

We're supporting farmers, growers and new entrants by improving careers development and increasing the capacity and capability of the sector's workforce. We're creating new learning tools, signposting to training organisations, informing policy and helping develop programmes focused on the industry's future needs

What our farmers say

Latest news

Farming Matters, created in association with the Agricultural Universities Council UK.
Our new course, made with the AUC, offers clear context on how vital our industry is to the country.
Matt Naylor and Stephen Jacob.
Matt's industry leadership and professionalism set to strengthen TIAH's Board.
Download our whitepaper to get an insight into the skills farming and growing needs in the coming 15 years.
Whitepaper details the skills which will be crucial to industry success for the next 15 years.

From the blog

Bronagh Brennan was inspired by her trip to the Oxford Farming Conference, 2026.
Despite the naysayers, OFC showed how skills and confidence can still drive success, says Bronagh Brennan.
There were plenty of reasons for industry optimism at this year's Oxford Farming Conference, says Stephen Jacob.
Stephen Jacob reflects on OFC and how we can all help build a confident, profitable and sustainable industry.
David, Jane and Anne Homer, looking into their farm's succession plan. Picture: TIAH.
We can all benefit from planning the development of our business and our own skills this festive season.