Agronomy - West
Programme
09:30 Registration and coffee
10:00 Welcome Richard Meredith, AHDB
10:10 A farmer’s perspective – putting agronomy into practice Rob Fox, TI Evans & Son and Strategic Farm West host
10:25 Effects of cultivation method on crop yield Blair McKenzie, James Hutton Institute
11:05 Designing a low risk fungicide programme Jonathan Blake, ADAS
11:45 Refreshment break
12:00 Engineering success; a look into the future of ag engineering Kit Franklin, Harper Adams University
12:40 Increasing productivity of wheat and oilseed rape in the West Pete Berry, ADAS
13:20 Close and lunch