Cereals & Oilseeds winter events

This autumn and winter, we are hosting Monitor Farm events across the UK and Strategic Cereal Farm webinars online. Our Agronomy Conference also takes place in December online.

These events will be led by your regional knowledge exchange (KE) manager and will cover a wide range of topics, facilitate farmer-to-farmer learning and connect you with the best information and expertise.

More details on the speakers and topics we’ll be covering are coming soon, so keep checking back.

For more information, please contact your regional KE manager.

Further details to follow.

• 22 November – Norwich – Soil secrets with Joel Williams
• 13 December – Norwich – Carbon audits, baselining and income optimisation from SFI
• 14 December – Wisbech – Evaluating alternative nutrition sources
• 19 December – Cambridge – Joint ventures
• 10 January – Norwich – Labour and machinery review
• 25 January – Wisbech – Lean management in practice
• 6 February – Cambridge – Roots to efficiency
• 14 February – Norwich – Enhancing soil productivity with Philip Wright and David Purdy
• 15 February – Wisbech – Break crop insight

• 22 November – Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire – Thriving in the future farming environment
• 5 December – Wainfleet – Farmer focus: Staying safe on the farm
• 6 December – Bingham – Crop nutrition and nitrogen use efficiency
• 16 January – Wainfleet – Which break crop?
• 17 January – Bingham – Companion cropping and intercropping
• 24 January – Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire – Resilient farmer, resilient business
• 20 February – Wainfleet – Grain drying and storage
• 29 February – Bingham – Soils and cultivations with Philip Wright
• 13 March – Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire – Soils and cultivations with Philip Wright

• 16 November – Chathill – Soil secrets with Joel Williams
• 6 December – Beverley – The business of soil health
• 12 December – Chathill – Stacking ecosystem goods and services: Putting theory into practice
• 25 January – Ripon – Stacking ecosystem goods and services: Putting theory into practice
• 7 February – Beverley – New year, new machinery? Time to take control of overheads
• 13 February – Chathill – Integrated weed management – Getting on top of grasses
• 22 February – Ripon – What can we learn from organic farming?
• 6 March – Beverley – Monitor Farm on tour: Jonathan Hodgson, Great Newsome Farm

• 23 November – Penrith – Making the most of manure
• 28 November – Limavady – Biological farming
• 11 January – Limavady – Companion cropping
• 15 February – Penrith – Biodiversity and soil assessment
• 22 February – Limavady – Measuring carbon and reducing your carbon footprint
• 7 March – Limavady – Soils and cultivations with Philip Wright

• 28 November – Scotland – Soil secrets with Joel Williams
• 6 December – Scotland – All things carbon
• 9  January – Scotland – Agronomy roadshow Lauder 
• 11 January – Scotland – Agronomy roadshow Perth
• 16 January – Scotland – Agronomy roadshow Aberdeen
• 14 February – Scotland – Managing and making the most of manure
• 13 March – Scotland – Business integration 

• 21 November – Newbury – Soil secrets with Joel Williams
• 22 November – Kent – Resilience: A joint NIAB, AHDB and cereal group conference
• 5 December – Isle of Wight – The role of livestock in the arable rotation
• 23 January – Newbury – Lean Review and SFI update
• 20 February – Newbury – Business resilience

• 23 November – Cheltenham – A ro-ro voyage of discovery (row spacing and robots)
• 24 November – Devon – Soil secrets with Joel Williams
• 12 December – Salisbury – A ro-ro journey (robots and row spacing)
• 9 January – Cheltenham – Measuring, planning, and applying N across a rotation
• 25 January – Salisbury – Becoming a ‘BOFIN’ re ‘biostimulants’
• 6 February – Cheltenham – Check your pulse! Managing beans in rotation 

• 16 November – Vale of Glamorgan – NVZs with Tony Lathwood
• 12 December – Wolverhampton – Make the most of SFI 
• 14 December – Hereford – Drilling and cultivation workshop
• 19 December – Vale of Glamorgan – The cost of grazing sheep in arable rotations
• 11 January – Hereford – Replacing BPS income 
• 6 February – Wolverhampton – Getting the best out of machinery
• 8 February – Hereford – Business Improvement: Time management with Michael Blanche 
• 13 February – Vale of Glamorgan

This November, our weekly webinars will showcase the latest results from across our strategic farm network.

7 November – How to use to data to improve efficiency and yield

14 November – How to put IPM to work

21 November – How to make cover crops work for your business

28 November – How to improve nutrient use efficiency

Featuring a mix of in-depth technical papers and expert-led thematic overviews – combined with plenty of discussion opportunities – this event is a staple feature in the diary of anyone with a technical interest in agronomy.

The event includes the launch of the latest fungicide performance data and provides insight into the recently released edition of the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL).

Note: Until 2023, the event was called the Agronomists' Conference.