Hindsight
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I am not a levy payer so have no comment to make on the vote. And you quite rightly may well say no right to comment in this thread. But I do dip into and read the research reports provided by levy funded trial work in my daily work.
I struggle with many of the posts in this thread when it comes to applied research. Do posters consider that this research is either not required or could and will be funded / provided by other means - possibly with a commercial interest(?!) So, as an aside to the value to growers of research funded by the levy maybe you might care to take a brief look at the two attached reports.
Recently I have been reading around the subject of nitrogen for potatoes. I wanted to check up on some research data that I knew was available and looked back for Nitrogen trial work conducted under the auspices of AHDB and the fore runner Potato Council. I did this as most of the advice / sales of fertiliser for use on potatoes is for what maybe quite high rates of Nitrogen. And having spoken to a couple of growers they were unaware (or seemed to be) of the research undertaken over the years by organisations supported by the levy. These tended to be younger farm managers / farmers - but older ones seemed unware too.
The gist of these trial series I consider can be condensed into growers may be using more Nitrogen than is appropriate.
I attach a couple of the reports for anyone to take a look at and consider the rigour of said trials format. And the cost of conducting this quality of research.
Regards all. Interesting thread to follow.
I struggle with many of the posts in this thread when it comes to applied research. Do posters consider that this research is either not required or could and will be funded / provided by other means - possibly with a commercial interest(?!) So, as an aside to the value to growers of research funded by the levy maybe you might care to take a brief look at the two attached reports.
Recently I have been reading around the subject of nitrogen for potatoes. I wanted to check up on some research data that I knew was available and looked back for Nitrogen trial work conducted under the auspices of AHDB and the fore runner Potato Council. I did this as most of the advice / sales of fertiliser for use on potatoes is for what maybe quite high rates of Nitrogen. And having spoken to a couple of growers they were unaware (or seemed to be) of the research undertaken over the years by organisations supported by the levy. These tended to be younger farm managers / farmers - but older ones seemed unware too.
The gist of these trial series I consider can be condensed into growers may be using more Nitrogen than is appropriate.
I attach a couple of the reports for anyone to take a look at and consider the rigour of said trials format. And the cost of conducting this quality of research.
Regards all. Interesting thread to follow.