Andy Cato, best known as half of the electronic music duo Groove Armada, was made an Honorary Fellow of Cirencester's Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in its 180th year. He accepted the Honorary Fellowship of the RAU at the university’s annual graduation ceremony on Thursday, September 18. "I could never have imagined that a financially questionable decision 15 years ago - selling my musician’s pension to become a farmer - would culminate in joining the incredible alumni of the oldest agricultural university in the English-speaking world." He added: “I read that the RAU was founded when farmers were struggling with low agricultural prices and a lack of government support. "Yet we have enough evidence to know we have a choice - an abundant future of healthy soils growing quality food despite violent changes in rainfall patterns and of food production being the source of nature recovery."