If you have built something in the farm workshop that has saved you time, money or hassle, it is time to enter Farmers Weekly’s Farm Inventions Competition.

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 made up 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 weeks, months or even years to design and build. They usually involve an engine or fairly complicated combination of electrics and hydraulics.

Who is eligible to enter?

Farmers, contractors, farm managers and workers are welcome.

What if I have entered my design in other local inventions competitions in the past?

You are still welcome to enter.

Will you feature the winners?

All nine prize-winning inventions will be featured, along with the best of the rest, in Farmers Weekly magazine and online. Many of the machines that you see on the stands at shows such as Lamma start life in the farm workshop, so it’s a great opportunity to get your ideas in the shop window.

How do I enter?

Just email brief details of what the machine is and how it works to oliver.mark@markallengroup.com.

You will also need to attach a couple of decent-quality pictures and a contact phone number so we can get in touch.

The closing date is 29 January 2021.