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Livestock farmers are leading new research into diverse winter grazing crops to cut feed and input costs while boosting soil health and biodiversity in a new Innovative Farmers field lab. The farmers will compare their usual winter forage of a single species brassica mono-culture with a...

Farmers, advisors, and researchers are invited to discover findings from farmer-led research in a series of events being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Innovative Farmers network. The benefits of predatory insects, trees, herbal leys and much more are set to be discussed during...

Hi all, I thought you'd be interested in the results of the red clover and sheep fertility field lab which were released yesterday. https://www.innovativefarmers.org/news/2022/march/31/farmer-led-research-disproves-red-clover-fears-on-sheep-fertility/ Please keep us looped in (ideally on...

You make some worth while points. I get the impression from talking to him that David is positive about lucerne but also realistic. He is also testing GS4 mix and other drought resilient herbal leys this year to compare with lucerne - results should be out soon. I know there's a train of thought...

You might be interested that we have a field lab looking at the red clover and oestrogen issue - https://www.innovativefarmers.org/news/2021/october/13/trial-could-see-more-breeding-sheep-benefit-from-grazing-red-clover/

Hi folks, We've produced this film to share knowledge from farmer led research looking at various drought resilient pastures in the east of the UK. You can watch it here: It would be interesting to hear who else has had a positive result from lucerne? What learnings you have made? And if...

Hi folks, We've produced this film to share knowledge from farmer led research looking at various drought resilient pastures in the east of the UK. You can watch it here: It would be interesting to hear who else has had a positive result from lucerne? What learnings you have made? And if...

Hi folks, thought you might like to see this film showing some outcomes and thoughts from the first full year of the living mulch field lab. Any feedback or insights that you have after watching are appreciated...

Glad you liked it. We will be publishing the data in this years field lab journal - but I think the numbers are still being crunched. I will post on here when they're out.

Hi folks, thought you might like to see this film showing some outcomes and thoughts from the first full year of the living mulch field lab. Any feedback or insights that you have after watching are appreciated...

For those interested we've just published some guides for three tree planting designs which fit into different livestock systems. These designs are all being trialled by 7 farmers in a field lab supported by researchers over the next 12 years. So we'll get a lot more data on the benefits to...

Correction - field lab starting soon will be on silvopasture not silvoarable!

Been meaning to join for ages and finally got round to it yesterday! Really impressed by the up front and lively atmosphere so hoping to post more. Innovative Farmers often get results from various agroecological practices being researched by farmers in field labs that it would be worth putting...

Some really interesting perspectives on this. Thanks all for posting. Keep them coming.

Some really interesting perspectives on this. Thanks all for posting. Keep them coming.

Soil Association recently released this film on the benefits of agroforestry and the stories of farmers who practice it: But it'd be good to hear from farmers who've tried, or want to try, but are having trouble making it work for their business. Also be good to hear some success stories too!

Soil Association recently released this film on the benefits of agroforestry and the stories of farmers who practice it: But it'd be good to hear from farmers who've tried, or want to try, but are having trouble making it work for their business. Also be good to hear some success stories too!