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Farm Excellence
2 September 2025
Lean management aims to optimise resources, maximise value and minimise waste. Find out about its origins and how Lean can be applied to agriculture and horticulture.
12 April 2022
Find out how our Strategic and Monitor Farms open their businesses to share research and development in practice.
20 June 2023
Find out how you can use Lean principles to create more value and reduce waste.
21 August 2024
Simon Watchorn, former AHDB Pork Board member shows admiration for Lean practices and shares his own experience of Lean, encouraging pig producers the importance of using a smarter approach in pig production, to remain competitive in the pork industry, nationally and globally.
9 April 2021
Richard Tucker considers the options for replacing his loose housing with cubicles and a new slurry system.
5 October 2020
Launching a new business-focused campaign, SmartPork, designed to implement Lean practices by encouraging business improvements and increasing cost savings.
6 October 2020
AHDB Beef & Lamb celebrate Farm Excellence programme with month long campaign in October
2 September 2020
We’ve listened to you, our levy payers, and recognise the importance for change.
21 February 2025
Cereals grower Rob Waterston has managed to grow a robust crop of winter wheat using minimal fungicide inputs
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26 August 2020
AHDB’s Beef & Lamb team is recruiting for its next host farmers after successes with its current project farms. This year, the team will be welcoming five new Monitor Farms to join its existing 15 Strategic Farms.
10 August 2020
This webinar looks at the theory and principles behind mole drainage and soil loosening, along with practical tips on how to effectively implement these operations in-field.
25 January 2021
The launch of our latest autumn block calving strategic farm run by the Wade family