Cambridge Monitor Farm

Name:

Matt Redman

Location:

Cambridge

Farm sectors:

Cereals & Oilseeds

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About Cambridge Monitor Farm

Oldfield Farm (320 ha) joined the Farm Excellence Programme in 2022
Host farmer Matt Redman started his contracting business in 2012
He took on a farm business tenancy (FBT) with Cambridgeshire County Council in 2017
The rotation includes winter and spring wheat, spring barley, winter and spring beans, spring peas, winter linseed and oilseed rape
The farm also uses cover crops ahead of spring crops and participates in the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) pilot scheme

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If you would like to be included in the email invite list for future meetings, contact amy.catling@ahdb.org.uk or alternatively call on 074 3554 0040.

Past meetings and updates

Labour and machinery review – 15 February 2023

During the winter season, a Labour & Machinery review was conducted at Cambridge Monitor Farm, the results were then discussed with Harry Henderson (AHDB Techinal Knowledge Exchange Manager).

Nutrition and reducing nitrogen usage – 7 December 2022

Matt was joined by Tom Martin (Cambridgeshire farmer also known as ‘Farmer Tom’) and Mark Topliff (Lead Analyst – Farm Economics, AHDB) to explore biological approaches to nutrition, ways to reduce nitrogen fertiliser use and the impact of rising input costs vs prices.

You can find links to download all seven sections of AHDB's Nutrient Management Guide (RB209), here.

Soil health and introduction to integrating livestock – 9 November 2022

In the first winter meeting at Oldfield Farm, guest speaker Lizzie Sagoo (ADAS) explored how to best optimise soil health assessments and talked about practical apporaches to integrating livestock into arable rotations.

Launch meeting – 6 July 2022

Matt welcomed visitors on farm as a monitor farmer for the first time back in July 2022. In the meeting, he outlined the following topics of interest for the three-year programme:

Balancing business development with sustainability
Making regenerative and agroecological practices work on farm
Open up discussions around tenant farming

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