Richard Barnes

After completing a degree in Agriculture and Land Management at the Royal Agricultural University, Kings sales manager, Richard Barnes, spent a valuable 2 years working on farms and estates across the UK before spending 6 years as a gamekeeper in Kent and the Cotswolds. Here, Richard oversaw the management of a partridge and pheasant shoot, whereby a core element of his role was to develop the habitat on farm. This included incorporating a range of game cover crops totalling 50 acres, which Richard established and managed himself.

In 2004, Richard joined Kings Crops where he quickly moved to the position of sales manager. He has since gone on to oversee significant growth within the business, now managing a team of 11 advisory staff who supply seed and advice to a range of landowners, farmers, conservation bodies and wider industry stakeholders across the UK. The Kings advisory team maintains strong emphasis on delivering innovation and, where possible, supports and encourages the integration of sporting interests within agri-environment schemes/Ecological Focus Area requirements. Kings is a key partner to the Allerton Project, Loddington, and works closely with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Balgonie grey partridge and Auchnerran demonstration farm projects in Scotland.