Case Studies

Kaiapoi Farm, led by Rob and Jo Hodgkins, is a UK Agri-Tech Centre innova

  • Ruminants

Farmers in the south west, concerned about the impact of monoculture winter bra

  • Forages
  • Monogastrics
  • Other livestock
  • Ruminants

Tomato growers in the Isle of Wight and Yorkshire found that splitting and blos

  • Fieldscale vegetables
  • Novel food systems
  • Salad crops

Red clover is a key component of sward mixes for agri-environment payment

  • Forages
  • Ruminants

Many farmers know biodiversity is key to a healthy farm, but measuring it can be a challenge.

  • Monogastrics
  • Salad crops
  • Soft fruit

Flax was once a thriving agricultural crop in Scotland, grown to produce linen.

  • Bioeconomy
  • Biomass
  • Combinable crops

It is widely accepted that compost can help capture carbon, retain nutrients, a

  • Fieldscale vegetables
  • Salad crops
  • Soft fruit
  • Tree crops

Land for UK hop production has halved in the last decade due to increasingly un

  • Bioeconomy
  • Soft fruit