Loppington Monitor Farm meeting: Growing more from less!

Farmers are under mounting pressure to produce high-quality food that consumers demand due to a series of chemical bans that have limited their toolkit to combat diseases and pests at a time of increasingly challenging weather patterns. 

The Loppington Monitor Farm meeting theme will be minimum not minimal: looking at how we can reduce inputs whilst maintaining yield, profitability and crop quality. 

Andy Howard will be talking us through his on-farm research on maximising the available nutrients from soil and cropping, through intercropping, using a mixture of varieties, using molasses, testing sugars and more. Learn from his experiences and forward-looking approach. Roma Gwynn or BioRationale will then help us explore the potential of biopesticides, such as insect-killing bacteria, in tacking pests and diseases on UK arable farms.  

BASIS and NRoSO points will be available.  

For more information about this event please contact Richard Meredith on 07717493015 or Richard.meredith@ahdb.org.uk