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  • About Us
  • Services
  • GRIP Course
  • Amy In Action
  • Blog
  • podcast
  • NBA genetics
  • Agri-Adviser Training

People-first change for farming businesses

Workshops, facilitation, and knowledge exchange that help farmers communicate better, make decisions together, and actually enjoy the work again.



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SOund familiar?

The conversations aren't happening.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

Important things go unsaid. Decisions get made by default. Resentment builds quietly.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

You're working harder than ever, but the business feels stuck - and so do you.

The people stuff is the hard stuff.

Everyone's busy. Nobody's moving forward.

The people stuff is the hard stuff.

You can fix a fence. You can manage a herd. But managing relationships on the farm? Nobody teaches you that.

We work on the bit nobody else touches

EmpowerAg helps farmers and agricultural professionals focus on the human side of their business - communication, conflict, decision-making, resilience.

We use behavioural science and positive psychology, delivered in plain English, face to face, with people who understand farming because we come from it.

GRIP workshop

A one-day programme that gives farmers the tools to start difficult conversations, handle conflict, and plan with clarity.

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facilitation & consulting

Bespoke sessions for farm businesses, networks, and agri-organisations navigating change.

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speaking and podcasts

Amy speaks at events across the UK and hosts two podcasts — Think Outside The Fence (inspiring positive change in agriculture worldwide) and Out Of The Rut (challenging how we think about farming from the inside out). She also hosts and produces podcasts for other organisations.

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Whether you farm it or support it - this is for you.

For farmers & farming families

You're proud of what you do. But the stress, the silence, and the weight of it all is taking its toll. GRIP gives you space to think, tools to communicate, and a room full of people who get it.

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For agribusinesses & rural professionals

Your clients are struggling with people problems, not just production problems. Give your team or network something genuinely useful.

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meet Amy hughes

Amy grew up on a beef and sheep farm in North Yorkshire. She's a qualified mental health first aider, a mum of two, and spent years working in engagement at AHDB before launching EmpowerAg.

She built GRIP because she's been there - the stress, the silence, the weight of keeping everything going. It comes from years of industry experience and her own lived experience of what farming really asks of people. She kept seeing the same thing: talented, hardworking people burning out, not because of the farming, but because of the conversations that weren't happening.

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Honest thinking on farming, people, and change. No spam. No fluff.

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Let's have a conversation

Whether you're a farmer wondering if GRIP is right for you, or an organisation looking for something different - drop Amy a message. No pressure, no hard sell.

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EmpowerAg

Threshfield, North Yorkshire

+447500029477 amy@empowerag.co.uk

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