🥁 𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 📢 Organic Research Centre is now part of ADAS 🎉 🌱

➡️ Read the announcement in full adas.co.uk/news/organic...

🐝 A buzz of activity while we were doing #biodiversity assessments for Fielden Whisky this month 🥃
We're working with their growers to measure invertebrate biodiversity & to see how much pollinators prefer fields with a permanent clover understory to fields without one 🍀

Duncan Coston @adasgroup.bsky.social talks us through trials of Barley yellow dwarf virus #BYDV in winter wheat, looking at novel approaches to manage this important pest on the AHDB Strategic Farm East 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXa...
#IPM

Today was Boxworth Olympics Day and BBQ day! 🏅🍔

#Harvest may be about to kick off, but we still found time to get everyone together for an afternoon of games and a fantastic bbq, thanks to games organiser Tom and site chef Will 🍔

Demonstrating surface water runoff and infiltration at #Groundswell2025 - a fitting day for it! 🌧
If you're around, come by our stand in the Demo Field - next to the soil pit 📍At 2pm, we'll be joined by Kate Bigwood of Ardenrun Farm and Lucy Noad of Woodhouse Farm to chat regenerative farming.

☔ The rainout shelters (aka polytunnels) are up in the @Root2Res @adasgroup.bsky.social #fababean trial. Imposing a late #drought to see how well the different varieties #root and take up #water

🌱 Thank you to everyone who braved the rain showers ☔ to join our weed scientists at Boxworth yesterday for a British Crop Production Council (BCPC) networking event, which included a tour around our field research trials 🌾🌾 #WeedScience

🌾 Join us for our Summer Open Day at Garnstone Farms, Weobley, #Hereford HR4 8PZ 📍
📅 17 June, 12pm-3pm
Tour our field plot demonstrations, & speak with ADAS & AHDB crop specialists about pests, weeds & disease issues 🔍
Free to join with lunch 🍔 😋 & BASIS/NRoSO points ⬇️
adas.co.uk/events/adas-...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This week we paid a visit to our research partner Bangor Uni's trial site in Henfaes to set up our wind tunnels for measuring #ammonia losses following manure or slurry applications.
Dave and Prysor from Bangor doing the dirty work! 💩
Thanks to Prysor for the 📸

🎉 Congratulations to Jack, James, Toby, & Tom (not 📸) who passed their BASIS Certificate in GHGs, #Carbon and Climate Change Mitigation exam this month! 🎓👏
adas.co.uk/services/bas...

🌿 One month to go! 🌿
Join us on May 21 in Brussels for the first Green Nudges in Agriculture and Forestry Conference!
🌱Explore how behavioral insights can drive sustainability in the agriculture and forestry sectors.🌳
🔗 Don’t miss out—learn more and secure your spot: greennudge.eu/green-nudges...

☀️ Crop pathologist Ella Bradfield making the most of the sunshine doing pest assessments for the Defra Pest & Disease Survey 💛
Over 50 years of data on #cropdisease & pest severity in England & Wales 🌱🪳 available online @ pestanddiseasesurvey.co.uk
Check it out & share your feedback 🌱

Thanks to all who joined our NUTRICHECK NET
webinar 'Optimising #CropNutrition through in season checks and adjustments' with Kate Storer & Sarah Kendall 🌱
A special thanks to Andrew Williamson & David Aglen for sharing their 2025 nutrition strategies.
Watch in full ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpyu...

🌱 We were pleased to welcome #Defra Minister of State Daniel Zeichner to our Boxworth site this week 🤝

While showing some of our applied research projects, we discussed the importance of industry-wide collaborations & building on existing knowledge to accelerate innovation in #BritishFarming

📢 Tues, 1 April - Join our crop physiologists Sarah Kendall & Kate Storer, with farmers Andrew Williamson & David Aglen for a webinar on optimising crop nutrient applications through in-season checks & adjustments🌾🔍
✅ BASIS points available
Register ⬇️
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3e69e3...

Are you a farmer, or working with farmers, in the UK or Ireland?
Take part in this survey on parasitic weeds in Europe! Natural Resources institute (NRI), @adasgroup.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social agricology.co.uk/parasitic-we...

Are you an aspiring #soil scientist hoping to take your skills to the next level? 🧗‍♂️
We're sponsoring the British Society of Soil Science’s Soil Judging Competition 8-10 July 2025.
Learn from experts how to describe/classify soil profiles 🔍
No experience needed ⬇️
soils.org.uk/blog/bsss-se...

As part of a soil carbon baselining project for Fielden #Whisky, the ADAS Boxworth field team visited a farm in High Wycombe this week to take #soil samples 🌱
We are investigating #carbon sequestration from minimum input and #tillage systems over multiple years.
🥃 + #RegenerativeAgriculture ✅

📢 The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) is open to cereal, #oilseeds, and #pulse growers for 2025! 🌾🫛
✔️Compare your crop with others on +60 factors incl. seed rate, #fertiliser timings.
✔️Identify growth limitations.
✔️Share ideas & experiences with others on what works
Find out more - yen.adas.co.uk

☘️Take part in this quick survey to help @adasgroup.bsky.social understand how (or if) farmers and agronomists currently account for nutrient availability from #covercrops to the following crop.
🧰Results will be used to develop a decision support tool.
agricology.co.uk/adas-covercr...