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Improving productivity is all about using inputs more efficiently. At AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm in Suffolk Brian Barker is looking at just how low he can go by tailoring his inputs to crop, disease levels and the weather. CPM finds out more. Lowering inputs is just a part of the equation. By Lucy de la Pasture Looking across at his office wall, Brian Barker scans the pieces of paper pinned there to give him inspiration. He settles on the one carrying the quote, “That’s the way we’ve always done it, should we be doing it?” As a result of the trials being carried out on his farm, the pioneer in the AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm network, the answer is, more often than not, a ‘No’. AHDB’s Teresa Meadows explains that the purpose of the Strategic Farms is to put research into practice and help growers find the line between inputs and outputs so net margin can be maximised within an IPM approach. “They provide a platform for discussions and take farmers on a journey which encourages them to start to question things and look at how inputs can be matched to variety, disease and the season rather than simply…
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