About the IAgrE

Membership of the Institution provides a status that has won recognition throughout the world as an important career qualification. Members are classified into grades from Associate (including students) up to Fellow. Their activities cover a broad technical and administrative spectrum in engineering research and testing; design, development and manufacture; marketing and sales; teaching; training; consultancy and farming. As a nominated body of the Engineering Council UK, IAgrE is able to offer Professional registration with the Engineering Council as Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, Engineering Technician to suitably qualified members.

IAgrE is a founder constituent body of the Society for the Environment (SocEnv), a new umbrella body for those professionals active in the field of sustainable development. Since 2004, through its constituent bodies, SocEnv has offered the professional qualification of Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). Those working in the land based sector are welcome to contact IAgrE for further details of SocEnv and the proposed CEnv. qualification. Click for further information on SocEnv.

Activities include branch meetings, conferences and events, and technical groups meetings. These involve members with particular technical interests, including food engineering and technology, precision farming, forestry engineering, livestock engineering, machinery management, soil and water management, amenity and ecological engineering, renewable energy, vehicles, overseas development, agro-industrial products and pioneering technology. A Young Engineers' section is aimed at students and those embarking on a career in agricultural engineering. These activities provide a forum for technical updating and for meeting friends and colleagues within the industry.

Reports of the proceedings at national and branch meetings and other matters of technical and current interest are published six times a year in the Institution's Journal Landwards. The Library of Cranfield University - Silsoe (adjacent to the Institution offices) is the official library of the Institution. Members are eligible for low-cost subscriptions to Biosystems Engineering (formerly JAER) through membership of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers.

The Institution is staffed by a Secretariat based at Silsoe (click for Location Map), and is governed by an elected Council. It is a Company Limited by Guarantee. It is the UK member of EurAgEng, the European Society of Agricultural Engineers.