CROPS ARCHIVE

2012

18 April 2012

Adjust main season nitrogen use this spring?

ADAS scientists have brought together new and topical information to help farmers make correct nitrogen decisions this spring/summer. The full...

05 April 2012

Minimising pollution risk in strawberry production

ADAS is working in partnership with the EA to identify best practice in minimising pollution risk from table top strawberry...

29 March 2012

Agriculture: the heart of the solution

James Clarke talks about sustainable agriculture and how it is core to ADAS.

20 March 2012

BASF Weed ID App

BASF in conjunction with ADAS have developed a new innovative mobile phone app to help with weed identification.

14 March 2012

How much fertiliser will crops need this spring?

ADAS scientists have brought together new and topical information to help farmers make correct nitrogen decisions this spring/summer. A document...

02 March 2012

New canopy assesment e-tool

Sarah Clarke describes how ADAS and BASF have developed an e-tool in order to manage large cereal crops.

17 February 2012

SCEPTRE identifies prospects for improved crop protection in horticulture

The first annual report for SCEPTRE, a major Horticulture LINK project sponsored by Defra, went live on the HDC website...

13 January 2012

New chlorpyrifos requirements announced

New requirements for all 2012 applications of chlorpyrifos insecticides have been announced by a consortium of the three major approval...

11 January 2012

ADAS exhibiting at the LAMMA Event in January

ADAS will be attending the LAMMA exhibition on 18th and 19th January 2012 and will be accompanied by solar PV...

2011

16 December 2011

Does consuming seasonal foods benefit the environment?

Mark Holmes & Jeremy Wiltshire from the ADAS Sustainable Leadership team, along with collaborators from the University of Plymouth and...

12 December 2011

Improving evidence for buffer strip effectiveness for P across the DTC's

ADAS is involved in a collaborative project investigating the effectiveness of buffer strips at removing sediment and Phosphorus (P) across...

29 September 2011

Combinable crop harvest is now drawing to a close

UK combinable crop harvest is now drawing to a close. Harvest progress has stayed ahead of average for most...

19 September 2011

Global ReseArCH4 inveN2Ory Workshop

An opportunity for academics and industry to demonstrate techniques and technologies used to measure agricultural GHG emissions.

07 September 2011

Dormancy in black-grass this autumn is high

Results from BASF-funded research have shown that dormancy in black-grass seed samples this autumn is high.

22 August 2011

Water and food security

James Clarke, Science and Business Development Manager for Soils, Crops and Water, outlines the importance of water availability when assessing...

22 August 2011

Water resources

Simon Groves, Principal Consultant, reviews why landowners need to prepare for unpredictable water supplies and ensure farms are prepared for...

22 August 2011

Water quality

Adrian Collins, Head of Water Quality Science explains, using nitrate as an example, how modelling can help target management in...

22 August 2011

Water scarcity and footprinting

Chris Fawcett, Head of Sustainability, looks at the issue of water scarcity and how water footprinting can improve supply chain...

03 August 2011

Evaluation of the EU Community Plants Variety Rights regime

The final report of a GHK/ADAS study for EU DG Sanco, an evaluation of Europe’s plant variety rights system has...

15 July 2011

Pesticides in the UK – The 2010 report on the impacts and sustainable use of pesticides

The Pesticides Forum has published its latest annual report ‘Pesticides in the UK – the 2010 report on the impacts...

15 June 2011

ADAS leads high profile farmer-focused digestate and compost research project

ADAS is working with several other leading agricultural research and advisory organisations to deliver a series of scientific field experiments...

19 May 2011

Crop protection priorities: potential impacts of loss of pesticides in UK

ADAS has completed a series of projects assessing the impacts of changing availability of pesticides. These reports cover all key...

18 May 2011

ADAS Open Days 2011: Meeting the growing demand for crops

We look forward to welcoming you to one of three farm open days delivered by ADAS Soils, Crops and Water...

05 May 2011

Securing the future of applied research

ADAS is very pleased to be the recipient of two horticulture fellowship awards.

20 April 2011

Agri-industry to reduce greenhouse gases by 2020

Organisations representing the agricultural industry in England have launched a joint Greenhouse Gas Action Plan (GHGAP) setting out how the...

19 April 2011

Recognising Energy Saving Opportunities in Broiler Production

Jag Singh, Energy & Resource Efficiency Consultant explains how ADAS Farm Resource Efficiency Delivered services helped H.D. & R.D. Powell...

14 April 2011

Adjustments to main season nitrogen use in spring 2011

ADAS scientists have brought together new and topical information to help farmers make correct nitrogen decisions this spring/summer. A document...

05 April 2011

Adapting wheat to global warming

Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Principal Research Scientist, looks at how UK wheat is adapting to current global warming trends.

05 April 2011

Farm level GHG mitigation

Susan Twining, Farming Systems Principal Consultant, investigates the most practical measures for farm level greenhouse gas mitigation.

18 March 2011

Scheduling crop nutrition to optimise wheat bioethanol productivity in the north-east

ADAS research, sponsored by NEPIC (the North East of England Process Industry Cluster), has shown that wheat growers should apply...

11 March 2011

*ADAS COMPETITION* What does FRED stand for?

The first 20 entries with the correct answer will win a 20% discount off any of the services described below!...

2010

08 September 2010

What are the land use implications of biofuels?

ADAS authors have published a paper in the journal Global Change Biology Bioenergy. The referred paper investigates the implications of...

11 August 2010

ADAS Investigates Nitrification Inhibitors’ role in reducing agricultural GHG emissions

ADAS and North Wyke Research are leading a four-year research project to assess the role Nitrification Inhibitors (NIs) could play...

05 July 2010

Renewable feedstocks

Solar, wind, bio-mass, hydropower and anaerobic digestion are all contributing increasing fractions of energy to the country’s needs. Whether...

29 June 2010

Agronomist Pesticide Workshops planned for July 2010.

ADAS and VI-CIC are holding a series of agronomist meetings on pesticides and water quality in July 2010.

18 April 2010

Links in the chain Sunday Times article

Decades of peace and plenty mean we take the food supply for granted. But for bread, meat and vegetables to...

08 March 2010

ADAS helps secure industry skills for the future

ADAS has teamed up with the University of Warwick to offer a postgraduate course in sustainable crop production – designed...

24 February 2010

Safeguarding food security and meeting societal demands

Ensuring our future food security is arguably the most pressing challenge facing mankind today. It is also one of the...

24 February 2010

Finding the global solution to food security: sustainable productivity

Food security and the pressure it places on land use and management is fast becoming one of the defining issues...

24 February 2010

Food Security Case study • The Gallagher Review

Tension over land use is brought into sharp focus by the conflicting demands of food and energy security.To inform policy,...

24 February 2010

Producing food and protecting the environment

Food production has a complex and inextricable relationship with the natural environment. Some inputs are extracted from natural sources and...

23 February 2010

The Government vision for a sustainable & secure food system for 2030

Food 2030, the Government’s new food strategy, is the first of its kind in over 50 years. It sets...

2009

13 October 2009

Report highlights farmers' role in significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions

With greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from agriculture representing a significant percentage of UK emissions, a new report produced by leading...

17 August 2009

Protecting water from herbicides

A range of information has just been published to help farmers and agronomists manage oilseed rape to minimise the risks...

06 August 2009

Research on tramline wheelings within fields could reduce diffuse pollution

ADAS Environmental Consultants are exploring the most cost-effective methods of managing tramline wheelings in autumn-sown cereal crops to reduce the...

26 June 2009

Advance spray notification

How can spray operators take account of the concerns of residents living adjacent to farmland? ADAS Consultants provide some...

10 June 2009

Launch of Online Encyclopaedia of Arable Weeds

ADAS consultants have completed an on-line and printed version of The Encyclopaedia of Arable Weeds. Jointly funded by HGCA and...

21 May 2009

How UK crop productivity could contribute to global food security

ADAS crop scientists have been involved in a major report which hopes to improve understanding of the importance of productive...