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Agronomy Week 2020 - Tuesday
Programme
If you have already registered for Agronomy Week 2020, you can access all of the webinars online.
If you have any problems accessing the platform, please email events@ahdb.org.uk.
Tuesday 1 December (cereals and oilseeds)
9am – 10:30am: Live stream – How to use the Recommended Lists (Agronomists’ Induction)
- Chair: Fiona Geary, Knowledge Transfer Manager (Cereals & Oilseeds), AHDB
- Speakers:
- Catherine Harries, Crop Health & Protection Scientist (Diseases)
- Paul Gosling, Crop Production Systems Senior Scientist (Cereals & Oilseeds - Recommended Lists), AHDB
This session is an interactive tutorial on how to use the Recommended Lists (RL) and supporting tools. Delegates are encouraged to download the Recommended Lists app to work through scenarios as part of the webinar. The Variety Selection Tool will be showcased in conjunction with the RL. The webinar will also provide background on disease ratings in the RL and how to score diseased crops.
Programme:
- 9:00: Welcome and introductions – Fiona Geary
- 9:10: How to use the Recommended Lists – Paul Gosling
- 9: 35: Questions
- 9:40: Recommended Lists from a disease perspective – Catherine Harries
- 10:00: Questions
- 10:10: Summary
- 10: 20: Close
11am – 12:30pm: Live Stream - Risks are potentialities; how can we use the Recommended Lists 2021/22 and variety selection on-farm to minimise these?
- Chair: Rose Riby, Knowledge Exchange Manager (Cereals & Oilseeds - North East), AHDB
- Speakers:
- Ellie Marshall, Field Trials Lead Analyst (Cereals & Oilseeds - Recommended Lists), Crop Production Systems
- Patrick Stephenson, Agronomist
- Ambrogio Costanzo, Organic Research Centre
- Catherine Harries, Crop Health & Protection Scientist (Diseases)
A huge number of risks and uncertainties affect agriculture businesses. Each business is different and will have its own risks, with some risks being more likely or more serious than others. Farmers and agronomists are increasingly looking to new strategies to reduce risk, including variety selection and crop protection. The AHDB Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL) publications provide information on yield and quality performance, agronomic features and market options. Ellie Marshall will discuss the latest changes to the list to assist with variety selection, crop protection and risk management.
Varietal choice is critical for growers. RL plot-scale experiments determine the genetic potential of cereal varieties. On-farm participatory “collective experiments” using field-scale variety trials generate results that could complement the RL. In collaboration with AHDB, Ambrogio from the Organic Research Centre (ORC) will share his work with a network of farms to generate datasets that describe field performance of winter wheat varieties in low fertility rotations. The results will valuable for growers and agronomists in conventional, low-input and organic farming systems.
The loss of active ingredients and the slowing of new developments highlights the need to use the Recommended Lists as vital tools in risk management and optimising profitability. Patrick will lead a discussion on how to bring the science together with practical advice on farm.
Programme:
- 11:00: Welcome, housekeeping & introductions - Rose Riby
- 11:10: Highlights of the new varieties recommended to the RL - Ellie Marshall
- 11:30: Farm-based organic wheat variety trials network; LiveWheat - Ambrogio Costanzo
- 11:50: Can we abandon regimes on farm and replace it with a low-input rotation and manage risk with varieties? - Patrick Stephenson
- 12:10: Panel discussion and questions - All
- 12:20: Close
2pm – 3:30pm: Live Stream - Fungicide performance and programmes
- Chair: Richard Meredith, Head of Arable Knowledge Exchange, AHDB
- Speakers:
- Stuart Knight, NIAB
- Jonathan Blake, ADAS
- Lise Nistrup Jørgensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Knowledge of the potential power of an active ingredient (or product) is essential in disease management. First and foremost, it will help you gauge the potential return on your spray investments. Critically, it can be used to develop effective fungicide programmes that balance the need to control disease with the need to protect chemistry from fungicide resistance.
This year, it is the turn of Stuart Knight (NIAB) to outline the trends in the performance of fungicides at the AHDB Agronomy Week.
Following this Jonathan Blake (ADAS) and Lise Jørgensen (Aarhus University) will demonstrate the developments in the management of fungicide programmes by reflecting upon their work further afield. In particular the Eurowheat and Eurobarley projects, which use common trial protocols across Europe with a focus on septoria and ramularia control.
The session will conclude with an open panel session.
Programme:
- 14:00: Welcome, housekeeping & introductions - Richard Meredith
- 14:05: Fungicide performance in Cereals & Oilseeds - Stuart McKnight
- 14:40: Eurowheat & Eurobarley - Lise Nistrup Jørgensen
- 14:55: Effective agronomy: drilling dates and their impact on disease control - Jonathan Blake
- 15:10: Panel discussion - All
- 15:30: Close
4pm – 4:30pm: Pre-recorded video PhD showcase: Fostering populations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) through cover crop choices and soil management
- George Crane, University of Cambridge
5pm – 6:30pm: Live Stream - Cover crops, rotations and niche cropping: strategies that plant a profit
- Chair: Paul Hill, Knowledge Exchange Manager (Cereals & Oilseeds - South East), AHDB
- Speakers:
- Stephen Briggs, Farmer and Principal Farm Consultant at Abacus Agriculture Ltd
- Jake Freestone, Farm Manager, Overbury Farms
Consistently growing healthy and viable crops is a challenge as the risks involved are high. It is therefore important we identify the risks we have control of, and then, implement the appropriate crop husbandry practices to mitigate these. However, increasing environmental legislation means we need to re-evaluate our crop husbandry methodologies and viably incorporate Integrated Pest / Farm Management practices.
During this session, we will discuss how we can utilise and integrate various cropping regimes to promote the economics of our main cash crops, as well as ensuring we meet current and pending legislation.
Programme:
- 17:00: Welcome and introductions – Paul Hill
- 17:05: Agroforestry and silvoarable: improving the sustainability of your arable business – Stephen Briggs
- 17:35: Developing robust rotations – cover, companion and nice crops – Jake Freestone
- 18:05: Q&A – All
- 18:20: AHDB update
- 18:30: Close – Paul Hill