Monitor Farms

11 January 2022

Find out how a simple extension cable improved efficiency and staff performance on an outdoor breeding unit.

19 August 2024

Find out how a simple change to the way pigs are moved and loaded saved over 40 hours over the course of a year.

19 July 2021

Diss Monitor Farmer, Richard Ling, hopes his on-farm companion crop trial will help control CSFB.

20 April 2021

As memories of harvest 2020 slip away and we focus on the harvest ahead, Teresa Meadows, AHDB Knowledge Exchange Manager, summarises the key conclusions from benchmarking discussions that have taken place across the country over the winter months.

20 April 2021

The importance of effective time management, work-life balance and personal development are, perhaps surprisingly, the key lessons learnt by David Hurst in his time as joint host of Duxford Monitor Farm for the last three years.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® demonstrated there are many solutions to improving overall gilt and sow retention but only when embedded across processes to produce marginal gains. What is needed is a how-to guide for getting from variation to standardisation.

26 January 2021

Gilt Watch® mentors have shown that controlling some of the processes around gilt selection, farrowing groups and nutrition by parity, substantial reductions in variation and performance can be achieved.

26 January 2021

6 June 2022

Discover our Gilt Watch® programme, designed to help pig producers make informed and efficient business decisions on gilt management.

19 November 2020

David Aglen, host of AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland, is the Farms Manager at Balbirnie Home Farms in East Fife.

5 February 2021

ADAS and AHDB Wheat Fungicide Margin Competition 2020

5 November 2020

Six host farmers have agreed to take part in the Scottish Monitor Farm Legacy initiative which runs until July 2021.