The company became a Livery Company in 1952, with the support of HM KingGeorge VI, and was granted aroyal charter three years later byHM Queen Elizabeth II in 1955. The Farmers' Company supports farming students and promotes education inagriculture.
HRH PrincessAnne, Princess Royal was master of the company for 2001–02. HM KingCharles III was conferred as Honorary Liveryman of the Company in 1980.
The Farmers' Company ranks eightieth in theorder of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto isGive Us Our Daily Bread.
TheCollege of Arms has granted the Livery Company's coat of arms as per the following blazoning[1]:
Coat of arms of Worshipful Company of Farmers
Granted
6 May 1948
Crest
On a wreath of the colours, A bull passant gules semee of mullets Or, armed and unguled gold.
Escutcheon
Azure, three ears of wheat in fesse slipped and leaved Or; a chief of the last.
Supporters
On either side a farm labourer proper holding in the exterior hand a sickle also proper [the whole upon a compartment of ploughed land, the furrows receding from the foreground, proper].
