Content related to the topic: strategic-farms

2 September 2025

The 5 Principles of Lean management

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

Strategic Dairy Farms: Ten reasons to get involved

Benefits of the strategic farm programme

13 August 2026

Farm Excellence: Dairy

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

15 January 2025

Penllech Bach launch

Matt Jackson talks us through how he became a shared farmer at Penllech Bach

10 January 2025

Millands strategic farm launch

James and Wallace Hendrie share their story and ambitions for the future as they launch as our second strategic dairy farm in Scotland

18 December 2020

Selecting bulls for a better block

David Cotton and breeding expert Keith Gue outline their recent focus on improving fertility through closely managing herd genetics and bull selection

9 April 2021

Future proofing farm infrastructure

Richard Tucker considers the options for replacing his loose housing with cubicles and a new slurry system.

25 January 2021

Introducing Honeypot Farm

The launch of our latest autumn block calving strategic farm run by the Wade family

15 September 2025

Beef & Lamb Farm Excellence

Everything you need to know about our Farm Excellence programme and how to get involved.

24 October 2023

P2007349: AHDB Knowledge Exchange Call - Assessment and analysis at AHDB Strategic Cereal Farms

Deadline: 17 August 2020

29 May 2020

Dry weather case study - Ian Norbury

The weather is certainly throwing some challenges our way this year and the biggest impact is the reduced grass growth.

30 March 2021

The Farm - strategic farm launch

The Farm in Shropshire launches via webinar to become AHDB's first organic strategic dairy farm