Maximising crop yield: Downpatrick

Past Event - booking closed

2 April 2019

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Cafre, Greenmount Campus, Tirgracy Road, Muckamore, Antrim

BT41 4PS


Sarah Kendall (ADAS) will be joining us to explore how you can understand and maximise your crops' performance. The session will include the analysis of factors that could be limiting yields, and provide you with some of the tools you need to start closing the gap between theoretical and actual yield.

 

Programme

11:30

Registration

11:40

Welcome and introduction

Michelle Nuttall, AHDB

11:50

Farm Update & meeting introduction

Richard Orr, Downpatrick Monitor Farmer

12:05

Maximising yield through the Yield Enhancement Network ()YEN

Sarah Kendall, ADAS

-         Introduction to YEN

-         Yield Potential

-         Maximising yield through learnings from YEN

-        YEN Yield Testing project

13:00

Lunch

13:45

Review of Richards 2018 entry and strategy for 2019

Sarah Kendall, ADAS

-         Understanding the YEN report (using Richard’s as an example)

-         Setting targets for improvement

-         Strategies for this season (including nutrient use and measurements)

14:30          

Close

Michelle Nuttall, AHDB

For more information: email michelle.nuttall@ahdb.org.uk or call 07778143404

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact us using the details below.

E michelle.nuttall@ahdb.org.uk

T 07778143404


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