Strategic Farms

27 November 2020

Join strategic dairy farmer Adrian Bland and vet James Breen as they share their work on focusing on reducing cases of mastitis during the dry period

3 February 2025

Reducing intervals between silage cuts has helped strategic dairy farmers Tony and Michael Ball improve their milk from forage and reduce feed costs.

19 November 2020

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

23 November 2020

AHDB is looking for an arable farm or enterprise to host the next AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm.

27 November 2020

James and Wallace Hendrie share their ambitions as they become Scotland's second Strategic Dairy Farm

18 September 2024

Dan Burdett reduced his autumn calving block from 12 weeks to six weeks

11 November 2020

Sophie Brewster has joined our Scottish Dairy team as Knowledge Exchange Manager.

3 June 2021

Harvest 2021 trials at AHDB Strategic Cereal Farms will focus on the prevention, detection and control of pests, weeds and diseases – key components of IPM (integrated pest management).

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.

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.

15 October 2025

​​Benefits of the strategic farm programme

5 February 2026

Find out more about our Strategic Dairy Farms, which open their businesses to share research and development in practice.

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