CROPS ARCHIVE
2012
18 April 2012
ADAS scientists have brought together new and topical information to help farmers make correct nitrogen decisions this spring/summer. The full...
05 April 2012
ADAS is working in partnership with the EA to identify best practice in minimising pollution risk from table top strawberry...
29 March 2012
James Clarke talks about sustainable agriculture and how it is core to ADAS.
20 March 2012
BASF in conjunction with ADAS have developed a new innovative mobile phone app to help with weed identification.
14 March 2012
ADAS scientists have brought together new and topical information to help farmers make correct nitrogen decisions this spring/summer. A document...
02 March 2012
Sarah Clarke describes how ADAS and BASF have developed an e-tool in order to manage large cereal crops.
17 February 2012
The first annual report for SCEPTRE, a major Horticulture LINK project sponsored by Defra, went live on the HDC website...
13 January 2012
New requirements for all 2012 applications of chlorpyrifos insecticides have been announced by a consortium of the three major approval...
11 January 2012
ADAS will be attending the LAMMA exhibition on 18th and 19th January 2012 and will be accompanied by solar PV...
2011
16 December 2011
Mark Holmes & Jeremy Wiltshire from the ADAS Sustainable Leadership team, along with collaborators from the University of Plymouth and...
12 December 2011
ADAS is involved in a collaborative project investigating the effectiveness of buffer strips at removing sediment and Phosphorus (P) across...
29 September 2011
UK combinable crop harvest is now drawing to a close. Harvest progress has stayed ahead of average for most...
19 September 2011
An opportunity for academics and industry to demonstrate techniques and technologies used to measure agricultural GHG emissions.
07 September 2011
Results from BASF-funded research have shown that dormancy in black-grass seed samples this autumn is high.
22 August 2011
James Clarke, Science and Business Development Manager for Soils, Crops and Water, outlines the importance of water availability when assessing...
22 August 2011
Simon Groves, Principal Consultant, reviews why landowners need to prepare for unpredictable water supplies and ensure farms are prepared for...
22 August 2011
Adrian Collins, Head of Water Quality Science explains, using nitrate as an example, how modelling can help target management in...
22 August 2011
Chris Fawcett, Head of Sustainability, looks at the issue of water scarcity and how water footprinting can improve supply chain...
03 August 2011
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
The Pesticides Forum has published its latest annual report ‘Pesticides in the UK – the 2010 report on the impacts...
15 June 2011
ADAS is working with several other leading agricultural research and advisory organisations to deliver a series of scientific field experiments...
19 May 2011
ADAS has completed a series of projects assessing the impacts of changing availability of pesticides. These reports cover all key...
18 May 2011
We look forward to welcoming you to one of three farm open days delivered by ADAS Soils, Crops and Water...
05 May 2011
ADAS is very pleased to be the recipient of two horticulture fellowship awards.
20 April 2011
Organisations representing the agricultural industry in England have launched a joint Greenhouse Gas Action Plan (GHGAP) setting out how the...
19 April 2011
Jag Singh, Energy & Resource Efficiency Consultant explains how ADAS Farm Resource Efficiency Delivered services helped H.D. & R.D. Powell...
14 April 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
Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Principal Research Scientist, looks at how UK wheat is adapting to current global warming trends.
05 April 2011
Susan Twining, Farming Systems Principal Consultant, investigates the most practical measures for farm level greenhouse gas mitigation.
18 March 2011
ADAS research, sponsored by NEPIC (the North East of England Process Industry Cluster), has shown that wheat growers should apply...
11 March 2011
The first 20 entries with the correct answer will win a 20% discount off any of the services described below!...
2010
08 September 2010
ADAS authors have published a paper in the journal Global Change Biology Bioenergy. The referred paper investigates the implications of...
11 August 2010
ADAS and North Wyke Research are leading a four-year research project to assess the role Nitrification Inhibitors (NIs) could play...
05 July 2010
Solar, wind, bio-mass, hydropower and anaerobic digestion are all contributing increasing fractions of energy to the country’s needs. Whether...
29 June 2010
ADAS and VI-CIC are holding a series of agronomist meetings on pesticides and water quality in July 2010.
18 April 2010
Decades of peace and plenty mean we take the food supply for granted. But for bread, meat and vegetables to...
08 March 2010
ADAS has teamed up with the University of Warwick to offer a postgraduate course in sustainable crop production – designed...
24 February 2010
Ensuring our future food security is arguably the most pressing challenge facing mankind today. It is also one of the...
24 February 2010
Food security and the pressure it places on land use and management is fast becoming one of the defining issues...
24 February 2010
Tension over land use is brought into sharp focus by the conflicting demands of food and energy security.To inform policy,...
24 February 2010
Food production has a complex and inextricable relationship with the natural environment. Some inputs are extracted from natural sources and...
23 February 2010
Food 2030, the Government’s new food strategy, is the first of its kind in over 50 years. It sets...
2009
13 October 2009
With greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from agriculture representing a significant percentage of UK emissions, a new report produced by leading...
17 August 2009
A range of information has just been published to help farmers and agronomists manage oilseed rape to minimise the risks...
06 August 2009
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
How can spray operators take account of the concerns of residents living adjacent to farmland? ADAS Consultants provide some...
10 June 2009
ADAS consultants have completed an on-line and printed version of The Encyclopaedia of Arable Weeds. Jointly funded by HGCA and...
21 May 2009
ADAS crop scientists have been involved in a major report which hopes to improve understanding of the importance of productive...