THE STORY BEHIND THE COVER… Each year we aim to provide a cover picture that embraces some new or modern aspect of British Agriculture linked with a current Nuffield Farming Scholar. Over recent years we have shown: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Dairymaster UK rotating milking parlour, Lye Cross Farm - Alvis Family NSchs Modular planting of lettuce pioneered by John Green NSch RSPCS Freedom Food indoor reared broiler chicken – Claire Bragg NSch Boreal Drone sensor to map soil moisture content by AeroVision B.V. Harper Adams University ‘Hands Free Hectare project – Jonathan Gill NSch Osram GmbH GE tuneable Horticulture LED Research Lights –Sarah Hughes NSch Thetford G’s one spray irrigation application per crop - Tom Ormesher NSch
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2020 ANNUAL REPORT COVER PHOTOGRAPH
The latest cover illustrates a trial run by John Yeomans 2006 NSch which stems from a trip to Finland looking at their grass utilisation in 2018 with fellow Nuffield Scholar and his good friend, the late Richard Tudor 2017 NSch. European Innovation Programme funding was obtained for the journey and subsequent trial. Richard was engaged in his Nuffield Farming Scholarship at the time. The enclosed block shown is at 1420 feet at its highest point from which the view encompasses six counties and you can see the native pasture on neighbouring hills. Rotational grazing here is stocked at around 58 sheep per hectare and the flock is predominantly Beuah, which has been closed and performance recorded since the mid 1980s. The trial is exploring varying proportions of timothy within the grass ley and monitored yields so far this year are over ten times the ‘no inputs’ control section! Two different surface treatments have been used, scratching and slot seeding, to minimise carbon loss over 8 different plots. Four different seeds mixtures based on ryegrass, clover and plantain range from, 0% Finnish Timothy rising to 10%, 25% and 40%. Growth, quality and species mix is monitored on the plots and there are plans to monitor carbon as well. John is in the process of installing a solar powered water system to assist the rotational grazing.
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