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Hi everyone! We're running a survey at ADAS on behalf of the Prince's Countryside Fund. We want to reach out to farm business owners who have never taken part in their free Farm Resilience programme. The aim of the survey is to find ways to improve the programme to better serve the needs of...

The agriculture industry has committed to reaching Net-Zero carbon emissions by 2040. This will require substantial reductions in the greenhouse gas intensities of crop products, as well as increased storage of carbon in the farm system. Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) entries since 2013 have...

ADAS are looking for farmers and land managers to participate in a research project on Permanent Grasslands in UK farming systems. This is part of the Horizon 2020 Super-G project. We will be conducting telephone interviews with UK farmers and land managers throughout January and February 2021...

A quick video about the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) - open to any growers or agronomists for 2021! Website: www.yen.adas.co.uk

As UK farming faces its biggest shake-up in decades, ADAS business consultants Gillian Preece and James Dunn share their tips on how to prepare yourself and your farm business for change, including what questions you should be asking and what tools are available to help

All our networks - Cereal, Oilseed, Bean, Pea, Grass, and Potato, are open to new entries for the 2021 harvest season. The networks are open to anyone who would like to better understand their crops and find ways to improve their yields To learn more or register, please visit...

Since 2012, The Yield Enhancement Network – or YEN – has connected agricultural organisations and farmers who are striving to improve crop yields. The aim is to drive understanding of yield determination and inspire initiatives for yield improvement across the industry. This year we are going...

Since 2012, The Yield Enhancement Network – or YEN – has connected agricultural organisations and farmers who are striving to improve crop yields. The aim is to drive understanding of yield determination and inspire initiatives for yield improvement across the industry. This year we are going...

Whilst many growers over recent years have struggled with OSR establishment, all growers can benefit from joining Oilseed YEN this season. Oilseed YEN has responded to the ever increasing challenge posed by cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) by expanding information collected about the...

ADAS is looking for farmers based in Staffordshire, Shropshire or Derbyshire who would like free one-to-one business advice to prepare their business for the upcoming changes to agricultural policy and BPS. As this is part of Defra's Future Farm Resilience Fund, there is no cost at all for...

Cover crops are grown primarily to ‘protect or improve’ soils in arable crop rotations. They can be effective at improving soil functions by increasing soil nutrient and water retention; improving soil structure and quality; reducing the risk of soil erosion and surface run-off by providing soil...

The SUPER-G project is a European wide project aiming to work with farmers and policymakers to develop sustainable & effective permanent grassland systems. Aims of this project include optimising productivity, supporting biodiversity and delivering a number of other ecosystems services. This...

Since 2017, ADAS Crop Physiologist Sarah Kendall, Manterra Ltd., and Southwell & Knapton Farm in Yorkshire have been working on an EIP-AGRI funded project called 'Drill for Yield'. We are trying to understand if drone data can be used to predict shoot number and ultimately used as the basis for...

As part of a BYDV management project with AHDB, we are hoping to find winter cereal sites willing to host insect survey suction traps to catch aphids known to spread cereal viruses like BYDV. Our entomologists will use these to monitor their numbers. We're looking for sites around YO41 1LN and...

Hi! ADAS is running a survey to identify the barriers and opportunities of scaling up insect production as a sustainable alternative to imported soya for livestock feed. We're looking to get the views of pig and poultry farmers in particular, as well as feed suppliers and mixers. Can you help? A...

Want to learn more about Yield Enhancement Network or discover the true potential of your yield with grain analysis? In the absence of the Royal Norfolk Show this year, we're exhibiting online at AgriTechE Innovation Hub tomorrow. Live chat with Prof. Roger Sylvester-Bradley to ask any...

Last day today (15/06/2020) to enter your crops into the Yield Enhancement Network for this year, whether it's for Cereal, Oilseed, Pea or Bean. Register at www.yen.adas.co.uk or contact us at [email protected]

Prof. Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Head of Crop Performance at ADAS, explains a new grain analysis and nutrient benchmarking service YEN Nutrition

In time for harvest 2020, ADAS has launched a new YEN initiative called YEN Nutrition – to support those seeking to improve the nutrition of arable crops. YEN Nutrition provides comprehensive grain analysis on all 12 essential crop nutrients and allows participants to benchmark their crops’...