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    Q&A recap from YEN awards event - worms

    Q: What is the quickest way to increase your worms numbers, especially the deep burrowing ones? A: Minimum or no till has been proven to favour development of Lumbricus terrestris earthworms whose burrows generally extend from the soil surface to the deepest root (1 to 2 m depth)...
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    Why Join YEN?

    The Yield Enhancement Network – or YEN – connects agricultural organisations and farmers who are striving to improve crop yields. It is open to any interested individual or organisation - commercial, academic or other. The YEN exists to help any member from the UK, Europe or beyond to close...
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    YEN Awards 2017 - UK farmers are both lucky and smart!

    YEN Awards 2017 UK farmers are both lucky and smart! Results revealed at the annual results meeting of the Yield Enhancement Network on Thursday 16th November showed that the competition had attracted more entrants than ever. Top yields were around 15 t/ha for cereals and over 6 t/ha for...
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    Closing the yield gap with big data

    Closing the yield gap with big data Agrimetrics will work with YEN to build a valuable dataset, improve data collection and calculate potential yield automatically. As the harvest comes to a conclusion, Daniel Kindred of ADAS awaits the outcomes for the farmers competing in the Yield...
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    A helping hand with yields

    A helping hand with yields Twenty Twelve will be remembered for the successful London Olympics but there were few record-breaking performances for UK cereal growers during that year’s harvest. After a year that produced smaller yields than for 20 years, an industry review was undertaken...
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    Dereham Monitor Farm reveals the full range of farming ideas, from buried underpants to bio-stimula

    Dereham Monitor Farm reveals the full range of farming ideas, from buried underpants to bio-stimulants AHDB Dereham Monitor Farm open day. Picture: Ian Burt From digging up buried underpants to the application of bio-stimulants and micro-nutrients, the broadest range of new farming ideas...
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    Listen to Roger Sylvester-Bradley talk about YEN on Syngentas monthly podcast

    Listen to Roger Sylvester-Bradley talk about YEN on Syngenta's monthly podcast https://soundcloud.com/user-757235564/episode-9-incontact-june
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    Plant tissue tests lead to bumper wheat yields in Scotland

    Plant tissue tests lead to bumper wheat yields in Scotland Tissue testing wheat plants helps one Scottish Borders grower accurately feed his crops to match their nutritional needs leading to awarding-winning high yields. Winning formula in 2016 for the YEN competition Soil: Heavy clay Variety...
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    YEN Ideas lab - great minds discuss ideas

    YEN Ideas lab - great minds discuss ideas Earlier this year the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) held an Ideas Lab at Stoneleigh, created to brainstorm how to push production beyond the yield plateau. CPM reports. OSR has a yield potential of 11-13t/ha. By Lucy de la Pasture The concept of...
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    Crop Yields beyond 2012

    Crop Yields beyond 2012 Author: Roger Sylvester-Bradley In 2012 ADAS, with other industry organisations, jointly initiated a Yield Enhancement Network or ‘YEN’ to try to kick-start an upward trend in UK grain yields. 2012 was a bad year for UK cereal producers with smaller yields than for...
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    ADAS Crop development report for AHB Cereals and Oilseeds

    ADAS Crop development report for AHB Cereals and Oilseeds The vaste majority of cereal and oilseed rape crops were in good condition at the end of February with few weed, pest and disease problems reported. Mild, dry weather through out the autumn and winter meant that over winter crop...
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    Canola contest leader's recipe for success

    Canola contest leader's recipe for success The Western Producer, 2017 Mike Nelson, leader of the Canola 100 challenge, credits extra nitrogen and sulfur to push yields to 81 bu. per acre. | Mike Nelson photo The leader of Agri-Trend’s Canola 100 challenge says extra nutrients and fungicide...
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    Northern wheat growers come out top in cereal yield competition

    Northern wheat growers come out top in cereal yield competition Wheat growers from northern England, Scotland and Denmark scooped the top awards in an Adas yield competition due to better June sunshine levels than further south. Northumberland grower Shaun Watson saw the highest yield with...
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    Yield Enhancement Network - Out of the box thinking

    Yield Enhancement Network - Out of the box thinking PUBLISHED 14/10/16 - CPM Magazine Each year since its launch in 2012, the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) has got bigger. CPM asks two northerly growers what it brings to the table. By Lucy de la Pasture While yield is by no means...
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    Oilseed rape competition added to the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) for 2017

    Oilseed rape competition added to the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) for 2017 Published on 05 October 2016 Author: Leslie Berger The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) is being expanded for the 2017 season and will now include an oilseed rape competition. The YEN aims to foster and energise a...
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