Time is running out to get involved in this year’s Farm Inventions Competition, with entries set to close on Friday 27 January 2023.

The process is simple – just email brief details about your creation and how it works, along with a couple of good-quality pictures, to oliver.mark@markallengroup.com.

The total prize pot for this year is £2,550 – the winners will bag £500, runners-up get £250 and third-place finishers take home £100, with the results decided by a panel of journalists and farmers.

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Entries are split into three categories: simple, intermediate and complex.

Simple Items that took a day or so to knock together and are fairly basic in the way they work, but still save time or money.

Intermediate Anything more complicated, perhaps with a simple form of hydraulic or electrical system.

Complex Inventions that have taken significant time to design and build. They usually involve an engine or fairly complicated combination of electrics and hydraulics.

The competition is open to farmers, contractors, farm managers and workers.