Vale of Belvoir meeting: How to get the most from your fertilizer, reducing inputs and regenerative agriculture

Past Event - booking closed

Thursday, 24 February 2022

9:15am - 12:20pm

Long Clawson Village Hall, Back Lane, Long Clawson, Leicestershire

LE14 4NA


Join us to discuss practical solutions to getting the most from your fertilizer, improving soil health and entry into regenerative agriculture.

This meeting is aimed at anyone interested in regenerative agriculture but who is only either just starting or in the early stages.

Sarah Kendall will give practical advice on how to respond to increasing fertilizer costs, how to optimise N use and maximise efficiency, and tools for monitoring crop nutrition strategies.

Adam Driver will discuss how his family business farms with a long term view based around resilience, sustainability and caring for the environment on both their own land and land they manage for others.

Start: *9.15 am registration and refreshments for 9.30 a.m. start,* finishing with lunch

Please note earlier start time than originally advertised.

Programme*

9.15 am

Registration/refreshments

9.30

Welcome and introduction

Judith Stafford, AHDB

9.35

Vale of Belvoir Monitor Farm – update

James & Michael Parker, AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Monitor Farmers

  • Progress update
  • How the crops are looking
  • Setting the scene – improving soil management, reducing inputs and regen ag.

9.50

How to get the most from your fertilizer 

Sarah Kendall, ADAS

  • Practical advice on how to respond to increasing fertilizer costs
  • How to optimise N use and maximise efficiency
  • Tools for monitoring crop nutrition strategies

11.00

Arable farming for resilience, sustainability and caring for the environment

Adam Driver, Arable farmer, Suffolk

How a Suffolk family business farms with a long term view based around resilience, sustainability and caring for the environment on both their own land and land they manage for others

12.00

General discussion

Including questions and where next

12:20

Meeting close and lunch

Sectors:


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

E judith.stafford@ahdb.org.uk


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