Chathill Monitor Farm Meeting- Nutrition: Is the organic way the right way?

You are invited to join us for the first Chathill Monitor Farm Meeting of the season!

We look forward to welcoming you to catch up with Pip Robson, as we enter his second winter season as a monitor farmer. Starting off with a bang, we will be joined by two speakers for the November event. Dominic Amos is a grain representative at Organic Arable and was previously a lead researcher for the Innovative Farmers living mulch project. We will also be joined by James Alexander a member of the living mulch group. James farms and contracts both organically and conventionally in the UK, and in 2014 formed Primewest Ltd to promote ‘No-Tillage’ across the two sectors.

What will this meeting cover?

Dominic Amos (Organic Arable): Living Mulches: Can crops be successfully direct drilled into a clover ley?

• Why growing living mulches could improve the sustainability of the cropping system and soil health.
• How a typical living mulch cycle fits into an arable rotation.
• Past and new season results from the Living Mulch group.
• Key practical considerations when establishing a living mulch: management, key learnings, and what can go wrong.
• On-farm trials looking at low/zero input organic farming.

James Alexander (Primewest Ltd): Can you be organic without really being organic?

• The practicalities behind organic farming.
• His experience of living mulches on his farm.
• Crop nutrition: an independent view of foliar nutrition, biostimulants, and molasses.
• No-Tillage: is it effective across both organic and conventional systems?

Registration and refreshments will be available from 10:30 with presentations commencing at 10:50 and lunch will be provided.

BASIS and NRoSO points will be available for attending.

The event is free to attend, but please register to allow us to cater accordingly.

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