Monitor Farms

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.

22 December 2021

Waste is any step in a process that does not add value to the customer. There are three types of waste in Lean management, Muda, Mura and Muri, and we explore them below.

22 October 2020

Six AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Monitor Farm hosts in Wales and the West of England are testing out whether growing a blend of wheat varieties could have benefits for the bottom line of their farm businesses.

2 September 2025

When the 5 Lean principles are combined into a company's processes and culture, they create Lean production, manufacturing, and operating systems. On this page, we dive into each of these in a bit more detail.

12 November 2024

A guide to all the webinars in our Monitor Farm Mondays series.