Returning for their eleventh year: Lincoln Rural Training brings its expertise to the Midlands Machinery Show

Returning for their eleventh year: Lincoln Rural Training brings its expertise to the Midlands Machinery Show

Bringing its training expertise to the Midlands Machinery Show for the eleventh year, Lincoln Rural Training will be returning to the Lady Eastwood Hall once again this year.

Working with businesses across central Lincolnshire, Lincoln Rural Training specialises in training across the farming, landscaping and other arboriculture-type industries. A one-stop training service covering everything from first aid to training in aerial chainsaw handling – an area which is only covered by Lincoln Rural Training in the entire county.

“We’re a one stop shop for agricultural businesses and farms to complete whatever levels of training that they require,” says Kim Hooton, Executive Training Organiser. “We cover the essential training such as first aid, manual handling, working at height, and fire training – all which have to be refreshed every three years – plus more specific training for work with pesticides, forklifts, chainsaws, and tractors, for example.”

The team at Lincoln Rural Training are looking forward to returning to the Midlands Machinery Show and speaking to farmers about what they can offer them.

“We’ve had such a lovely relationship with the show since we first started exhibiting,” says Kim. “The fact that after so long we keep coming back speaks for itself.”

Kim expects the primary topics of conversation at this year’s Midlands Machinery Show to be around the Autumn and Winter 25/26 Training Programme and keeping up with new legislations, especially the new legislation around rodent control, both above ground and below ground.

“People will also be asking how much a forklift course is!” says Kim. “Forklifts are the biggest accident inducer in farming, really, and so that forklift training has to be done and has to be kept up to keep people safe and keep compliant when HSE do an impromptu inspection.”

It’s interacting with farmers that makes the Midlands Machinery Show so great for Kim on the Lincoln Rural Training stand.

“We’ve always stayed in the same position in the Lady Eastwood Hall, so people know where we are,” says Kim. “It’s nice that our customers come to see us.

“Farmers and employees will come and see me saying that they need a chainsaw refresher or a tractor driving refresher for example, that’s usually how it works. But it’s also so nice that we can just nip into the café and talk to our customers over a coffee too.”

Midlands Machinery Show 2025 is taking place on Wednesday 19th November at Newark Showground. Book visitor tickets here: https://midlandsmachineryshow.ticketsrv.co.uk/tickets/visitor