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For the past three years, Suffolk grower Brian Barker hasn’t just been gleaning Real Results from his farmer-led field trials, but gathering data on how growers can be rewarded for the public goods they provide. CPM visits to find out. What we want to achieve is a framework other farmers can follow and provide a wealth of data to back up a compelling case. By Tom Allen-Stevens Visit Suffolk grower Brian Barker between the months of October and April and you may well find him in a ditch at the edge of one of his fields, rather than monitoring the crop within it. That’s because Brian believes it’s just as important to assess carefully what comes off the land as it is to put considered thought into what goes onto it, and he’s keen more science is applied to both. Brian Barker has been taking regular samples throughout the winter from his field drains to measure the nitrate run-off from different crop covers. “The aim is to demonstrate the public good of how we can manage the land. Doing so in one field on one farm won’t make a difference, but what we want to achieve is a framework…
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