Fairman Knights & Sons is hitting the headlines

Starting 2026 as we mean to go on, and Fairman Knight & Sons is in the headlines for all the right reasons.

This month, we've appeared in national financial press and regional agricultural media, from This Is Money and the Daily Mail to The Farming Show on Lincs Sound. For those watching from outside, this might look like standard business-as-usual coverage. For us, it represents something more fundamental: mainstream adoption of a concept that, until recently, lived firmly in the “interesting but unconvinced” category.

What the coverage confirms

The This Is Money, and Daily Mail piece – headlined “Ex-City financier builds UK’s largest insect farm” – did important work. It confirmed our scale, our commercial reality, and our national relevance. It detailed the 120,000sqft facility we’ve created here in Holbeach, our £1.5 million-plus investment, and the roughly 40,000 tonnes of locally sourced food waste that we process annually - saving it from landfill.

Steve Orchard's Farming Show on Lincs Sound took a different angle, visiting the facility to explore how we’re turning food waste into fertiliser and feed. Regional agricultural audiences matter to us – these are the farmers, producers, and supply chain partners we work alongside daily.

Making waves across the industry

For investors, regulators, and commercial counterparties, this coverage provides independent validation way beyond what we, as Directors, have already been reporting. For them, as well as us as a team, coverage like this gives further weight to the reality and potential of what we are doing here at Fairman Knight & Sons. Getting the word out about how we are approaching farming in an altogether different way is essential as market demand continues to rise; strategic clarity in a sector where over-claiming scale and under-delivering outcomes has damaged credibility for years.

De-risking insect protein

Coverage such as this, where the bioconversion process is explained in accessible terms, normalising insect protein as a commercial feed ingredient, and linking our work to measurable waste reduction and climate outcomes, is invaluable to the industry and operations. Our processes are anchored in regulatory change; therefore, having as much information accessible to the public in a digestible format is essential.

Reducing that perceived ‘ick factor’ and challenging fears around regulatory uncertainty. Our aim is always to be transparent; our door is always open to this new way of working, especially if it counters scepticism from conservative agricultural partners who’ve watched too many “revolutionary” food tech ventures fail to deliver.

Separating Fairman Knight & Sons from the hype, these interviews and visits are integral to the work we are doing. Why? Because they graduate insect farming as a business, taking it from “interesting idea” to “national infrastructure asset in the making”. That's a responsibility we take seriously.

We're bringing more production rooms online in the coming weeks, ahead of schedule, and will continue to work with APHA, local authorities, and commercial partners, to prove that circular food systems can deliver reliability and value at scale - as well as to engineer new permits as we look to extend operations to encompass new products.

We're building a business designed for the long term – not the headline.