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Sugar beet growers are under pressure to meet ever increasing sustainability challenges whilst facing more turbulent weather conditions and decreasing margins. Improving nutrient use efficiency is key because it can meet both the sustainability demands, and improve margins, either through reduced fertiliser use or improved yields. Unlocking PoteNtial: pre...

_Low Emission Nutrition_ aims to evaluate low-carbon nutrition approaches under real-world UK arable conditions, focusing on wheat and potato crops. The goal is to generate independent, farmer-led evidence comparing these alternatives to conventional nitrogen fertilisers in terms of productivity, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact. UK agricultur...

BioStim Review is a farmer-led research project delivering the UK's first comprehensive, independent evaluation of biostimulant products for wheat and potato crops. With dozens of products on the market, each claiming to improve resilience, nutrient uptake, and yield, growers face uncertainty in selecting inputs that deliver real value. This project will ...

Fibe Ltd has shown that potato stems are a source of high quality textile fibre, attracting the fashion industry seeking sustainable sources of fibre. Supplying to Fibe our potato stems, which are a nuisance to harvest operations, is attractive to us ( Sentry and Dyson), as it saves costs and improves the sustainability profile of the farm by valorising c...

Over the next 25 years, agricultural productivity in the UK must increase by almost as much as it has over the previous 50 if it is to keep pace with the world's increasing demand for food. But it has plateaued. Meanwhile climate change demands reductions in agricultural GHG emissions, threatens food security, its nutritional quality and the distribution ...

Irrigated agriculture and horticulture produce a significant proportion of the nation's fresh fruit and vegetable crops, potatoes and sugar beet, underpinning a food processing industry that is the UK's largest manufacturing sector. Despite its economic importance, the sector faces profound environmental, water, energy and climate-related risks which coll...

The consortium Crop Intellect , Barworth Research , University of Lincoln, CHAP, Dyson Farming and The Allerton Project (all UK based organisations) are focused on designing and testing a prototype combination of R-Leaf and nitrogen fixing bacteria (endophytes) to reduce synthetic nitrogen usage in crop production. Crop Intellect is the lead organisation,...

R-Leaf is a cutting-edge technology that helps farmers grow crops with reduced synthetic nitrogen and increase farm resilience and sustainability. It uses a special process called photocatalysis to utilise daylight and convert nitrous oxides air pollution into plant feed. Key points: * R-Leaf was created by Crop Intellect Ltd. It's designed to help crops ...

Project Pythagoras is a 24-month feasibility study which answers, 'is it possible to develop a protein product or ingredient, profitably and sustainably that is derived from a commercially grown UK crop?' Countries such as Canada, Australia and France are all investing in their pea supply chains to exploit the potential of the developing plant-based marke...

By using plants as sensors this project will provide farmers with a Framework for improving Nitrogen efficiency (FINE) a management tool to support better nitrogen utilisation, management input decisions and Nitrogen use efficiency reporting. Nitrogen uptake data measurements will taken form plants through the season, through remote sensing, sensors, and ...

Potato growing uses intensive soil cultivation and very large inputs of inorganic nutrients, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Large amounts of energy are also used in cooled store to prevent post-production sprouting prior to consumer use. This result in continuous degradation of farm soil organic matter, and large emissions of CO2 and N2O, two ma...

Cereal grains are the basis of staple food, yet post-harvest losses during long-term storage are exceptionally high, above 20% in the UK and worldwide. Pests are to blame, with grain moisture content and temperature being the most significant factors. Cereal storage sites such as farms, grain merchants, millers and breweries, experience these challenges, ...