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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

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.

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.

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.

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

Research from the University of Warwick shows that farmers and growers will need to develop their skills and learn new ones to be profitable.
University of Warwick report champions training and skills to enable farming and growing to thrive.
Try our online course on making the most of technology, developed in partnership with the UK Agri-Tech Centre.
We've worked with the UK Agri-Tech Centre to develop a course on boosting profitability with agri-tech.
Left to right, Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner, Professor Ken Sloan, Dr. Peter Quinn and Stephen Jacob discussed the future or farming and growing, and how technology and skills would help deliver that.
Project between TIAH, Harper Adams and UK Agri-Tech Centre showcases tech and skills of the future.

From the blog

Technology is set to continue to be a major factor in the profitability of farms in England.
Embracing technology can be a vital step in improving working practices and driving profits, researchers say.
Christine Thompson discusses the quick tests you can use to assess the financial health of your farm business.
Christine Thompson discusses the quick tests you can use to assess the financial health of your farm business.
Gary Markham
Gary Markham gives an introduction to several business models and explains why you might change yours.