Monitor Farm walk: Downpatrick

Past Event - booking closed

18 June 2019

10:30 AM - 4:20 PM

Meadow Farm, Marshallstown Road, Downpatrick, County Down

BT30 8AH


Join the Downpatrick Monitor Farm, hosted by Richard Orr, for a farm walk and review of the year.

Programme

Registration with refreshments

Welcome and review of the winter meetings

Michelle Nuttall, AHDB

Farm update

Richard Orr, Downpatrick monitor farmer

Farm walk

-        Cropping around the farm: wheat, hybrid rye and potatoes

-        Current rotation

-        YEN entry including crop management, seed rates, plant counts, tiller counts and ear counts discussion

-        Establishment/cultivation try out plots (including soil test results, cost of production and display of kit)

-        Effect of cultivation on compaction including infiltration tests

Lunch

Cover crops group discussion

Richard Orr, Downpatrick monitor farmer and Michelle Nuttall, AHDB

Winter meeting programme and close

Michelle Nuttall, AHDB

Read previous Monitor Farm meeting reports

For more information: email michelle.nuttall@ahdb.org.uk or call 07778143404

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact us using the details below.

E michelle.nuttall@ahdb.org.uk

T 07778143404


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