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ADAS is asking sheep farmers to complete a five-minute survey to identify if there are barriers preventing them from adopting red clover mixed leys. Click here to take the red clover survey Responses submitted by 31 July 2023 will be entered into a prize draw to win a hamper worth £100. Why...

If you are interested in joining a Yield Enhancement Network in 2023, register before the end of April to qualify for free soil analysis! Free soil analysis is included as a benefit of YEN membership. However, the deadline to send soil samples to the lab for analysis is 30 April. Growers who...

At the YEN Awards last week, it was announced that Tim Lamyman’s farm at Worlaby Lincolnshire produced 18.0 t/ha of wheat and 16.2 t/ha of barley, both new world records. This is fantastic, and laudable in all respects, but it’s no accident. Tim Lamyman has grown high yielding crops for many...

Sorry for the delay, I checked with Roger Sylvester-Bradley, (our head of crop performance) about relevant research. The answer for ammonium nitrate is “within one day”, as shown in the attached paper (see Fig 3 & 4). He strongly suspects that ammonium sulphate & CAN would be just as fast. Urea...

Who achieved the top cereal and oilseed crop yields of 2022? 🌾🌾🌾 Find out by joining us 24th of January for the Yield Enhancement Network Conference and Awards at the EoE Arena in Peterborough! 🏆 We'll be looking back at what we've learned over the last 10 years researching top crop yields and...

We can't pay but you could get a lot of learning for free by teaming up with a sponsor - a carbon footprint report for your farm, a benchmarking report on how well you're doing against other farmers, free workshops on how to cut emissions. Sorry for the late reply! Send us an email...

Are you a combinable or forage crop grower looking to better understand and reduce your carbon footprint? Sponsored entries are available now for the crop carbon benchmarking network YEN Zero. YEN Zero helps growers to: calculate their crop carbon footprints and and benchmark their results...

To assist growers at the start of their carbon reduction journey, crop carbon benchmarking network YEN Zero is back and open to all for 2022/2023. With an initial focus on combinable and forage crops, the network helps growers to calculate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with their...

Just to confirm what's involved for this project - Participants will be asked to complete an online Integrated Pest Management Decision Making Tool, designed by ADAS, for their cropping types and give feedback. They may get asked to take part in a follow on interview. Participants will receive...

Hi everyone, ADAS are working with the NFU and SRUC to guide the development of a new Sustainable Farming Incentive Standard for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This Defra-funded project will help farmers, growers and advisers to combine cultural, biological, physical and chemical tools to...

True! The sponsored places are to cover this year. You will be able to join Oilseed YEN next year but not sure about the sponsored place availability yet.

Hope it's ok to post. For the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) this year, we have several sponsors interested in covering the cost of entry for oilseed, combinable pea, and bean growers. This means you may be able to become a YEN member for free this year. There are multiple benefits to being a...

ADAS is delighted to welcome the Forestry Commission to discuss the economic, social and environmental benefits of woodland creation for farmers. The webinar will be a 30 min presentation with 30 mins for questions. We will cover: Benefits of woodland creation for farmers and communities...

We would love to do as an app (we've had this request a few times) but it all comes down to funding unfortunately. We put a proposal to Defra in 2019 to update PLANET & MANNER to web-based but it stalled. Still hopeful one day we get the funding to make it happen!

ADAS have recently started working on a Defra/UKRI Farming Innovations Pathway research project in collaboration with Sheffield University and Mutus Tech Ltd. The aim of this project is to develop a “smart app” to help farmers with the identification and treatment of invertebrate pests in wheat...