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Plant health on trial at Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland
Baselining and plant health are the focus for the first year of AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland programme. A series of assessments are being carried out to provide baseline crop health, soil, pests and beneficials data at the outset of the programme. The first year’s trial is looking at whether amending crop nutrition in response to live crop monitoring will have an economic benefit on crop health, yield and grain quality.AHDB Strategic Farm Week: 1-5 June
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is holding a virtual Strategic Farm Week next month to showcase its Farm Excellence programme.
The event, which runs from 1-5 June, is aimed at arable farmers and will highlight the latest findings on the research, results and on-farm trials taking place on AHDB’s Strategic Cereal Farms across the UK.
David Aglen, Farms Manager at AHDB’s new Strategic Cereals Farm in Scotland, Balbirnie Home Farms, in central Fife, will join other strategic farm hosts, researchers and key experts from across the agricultural industry for the week-long programme.
Strategic Farm Week will offer practical discussions, share technical information and resources and be delivered via video updates, webinars and podcasts.
AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm
AHDB announces its first strategic cereal farm for Scotland
Scottish Arable Farm of the Year finalist, Balbirnie Home Farms at Freuchie in Fife, has been selected to be the first AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm for arable growers in Scotland