Winner : Andrew Rennie of Gask Farm, Turriff

Andrew farms in partnership with his parents John and Monica.

The main aim is to be more sustainable, reduce impact on the environment, become less reliant on the world's resources and utilise what is already there.

Drinkstone farm by Hawick

Scientists should be researching better grass to help the environment. So says the 2010 Future Farmer Award winner Arnold Park of the famed Drinkstone flocks of Texel and Suffolks.

Amanda Cayley and Chris & Denise Walton of Peelham Farm

Peelham is a 680 acre farm in Berwickshire run by the business partnership of Amanda Cayley,Chris & Denise Walton. They formed a farming partnership in order to take on the farm in 1993 after having previously been neighbours running smallholdings adjacent to the land that came up for sale. The land ranges in height from 300 to 700 ft is grade 2 and 3.

Pete Ritchie and Heather Anderson of Whitmuir Farm.

Whitmuir is a 54 hectare upland farm in Peeblesshire and until recently it was, like many other farms in the Scottish Borders, a single-enterprise sheep farm. In 2000 Pete and Heather took over Whitmuir and they have already completely transformed it: they keep pigs, cattle, sheep and poultry,