Joe Nickerson[1] (April 1914 Thoresway, Lincolnshire – 1990 Palm Beach, Florida[2]) was a highly successful farmer, entrepreneur and countryman.
Founder of Nickerson Seed Company[3] in 1940 and based in Rothwell, Lincolnshire he introduced 80 cereal varieties and winter barley to the UK.
In 1960 he founded Cherry Valley Farms Ltd,[4] leading supplier of duck breeding stock and exporting globally.
He had two daughters; Louise and the journalist Rosie Whitaker née Nickerson.
[5] Nickerson was author of a A Shooting Man's Creed,[6] a field memoir with a foreword by the Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster published in 1989 by Quiller Publishing.