Meet the Grounded Team
Kieran Walsh
Co-Founder & Director
Email: kieran@groundedagvice.co.uk
Tel: 07811 912759
Born and raised in the Gloucestershire countryside, Kieran Walsh began his career as a sprayer operator before moving into farm management, developing a practical, hands-on understanding of how farming systems operate in reality. This real-world experience sparked a lasting interest in agronomy and a commitment to maximising the potential of every hectare.
Kieran is not a typical agronomist. His expertise extends well beyond crop inputs, taking a whole-systems approach that prioritises soil health, balanced farming practices and sustainable cost management. He is known for a calm, no-nonsense style, combining technical rigour with flexibility and pragmatism.
Trust and transparency sits at the centre of everything Kieran does. No corner of a field is too small to matter, and advice is always shaped around what is right for the farm system in front of him. He combines practical agronomy with agri-tech, data analysis and field monitoring, helping clients reduce reliance on agrochemicals while maintaining performance and resilience.
Through collaboration and creative problem-solving, Kieran supports farming businesses in strengthening cultural controls, refining systems and exploring alternative income streams. His progressive, hands-on approach helps clients succeed not only in crop production, but in building resilient, future-ready farming systems.
Kieran works with farms and estates across Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, & Dorset.
Ryan Hudson
Co-Founder & Director
Email: ryan@groundedagvice.co.uk
Tel: 07870 154852
From a farming family in Somerset, Co-Founder and Director of Grounded Agvice and an experienced independent agronomist with a deep grounding in practical farming and crop management. After graduating from Harper Adams University in 2005, Ryan’s career has spanned agronomy, farm management and agricultural advisory, beginning in roles that combined technical agronomy with commercial and operational insight.
Prior to establishing Grounded Agvice, Ryan worked as a Regional Agronomist with a large farming business, where he provided independent crop management advice to a diverse range of clients and supported a growing team of agronomists across the eastern & Dorset regions.
Ryan brings a systems-level perspective to agronomy, combining extensive field experience with a commitment to balanced farming practices, soil health and resilient decision-making. He values independence above all: advice grounded in evidence, not product bias, and solutions tailored to the unique realities of each farm system.
A lifelong advocate for pragmatic, forward-thinking agronomy, Ryan remains actively engaged with farming communities and professional networks across the UK, often found out in the field, data in hand, exploring how modern technology and traditional practice can be aligned to strengthen farming performance.
He works with farms and estates across the Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorset & Wiltshire.
Hugo Dwerryhouse
Agronomist
Email: hugo@groundedagvice.co.uk
Tel:
Since graduating from Harper Adams University, Hugo has built his career in large-scale farm management, leading the day-to-day running of a 3,500-acre contract farming business. During this time, the business won Arable Farm of the Year at the British Farming Awards in 2022, followed by Environmental Champion of the Year at the Farmers Weekly Awards in 2023, reflecting a consistent focus on delivering environmental progress alongside strong commercial performance.
This experience underpins Hugo’s whole-farm approach to agronomy, ensuring decisions are made not only at field level, but within the context of wider business objectives, operational realities and long-term system resilience.
His approach is practical with a strong emphasis on soil health, cost-effective crop production and building resilient farming systems. Hugo has extensive experience integrating livestock into arable rotations, improving nitrogen use efficiency, and delivering on-farm trials that support informed, future-focused decision-making.
Grounded Agvice, works closely with partners such as AgAnalyst, connecting practical agronomy with farm data and financial performance. Hugo supports growers across the UK, linking field-level insight with data to guide clearer, more informed decisions. His work focuses on improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), using on-farm trials and real-world observation to refine fertiliser strategies and ensure they deliver in practice.
Hugo works across Hampshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire & Gloucestershire,