Mark Ramsden

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Diagram schematic of land sparing & land sharing approaches
Are environmental benefits (carbon, biodiversity...) best served by sharing agricultural land with nature, or by maximising yield in some areas to spare tracts of land exclusively for nature in other…
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OFE2023 flyer
An online global conference on On-Farm Experimentation was held in 2023 - The proceedings are now published - 23 peer-reviewed papers and 34 short videos.
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OFE schematic
On Farm Experimentation (OFE) is increasingly being recognised as having transformative power in improving performance in agricultural systems across the world.
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OFE2023 flyer card
The Second International Conference on farmer-centric On-Farm Experimentation
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Agri-TechE is a not-for-profit, independent membership organisation dedicated to advancing agricultural innovation and sustainability. We take pride in our decade-long commitment to transforming…
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YEN logo
The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) was launched in 2012 to support and energise on-farm learning-by-sharing and thus to enhance farming progress.
Beans
Introduction Over the last few months at FCT, we have seen an increase in the interest in understanding the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of adopting more regenerative farming practices. As a…
Beans
With climate unpredictability increasingly impacting the agricultural sector, the UK’s farming landscape is undergoing a novel transformative shift. Here, Sarah MacAfee, Technical Officer for LEAF…
First page of the Scottish IPMWORKS Hub Booklet
The IPMWORK network connects farmers and advisors across Europe.  Developed based on LEAF and other existing networks, a series of IPM Hubs have supported farmers advancing their IPM programmes. …
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Rural Landscape
Create IPM plans for your farm
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septoria
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is based on a diversity of pest management measures (prevention, non-chemical control, best practices for optimizing pesticide efficiency, etc.). These are combined…
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IPM Works logo
An EU-Wide Farm Network Demonstrating and promoting cost-effective IPM Strategies.
ORFC Logo
Every January The Oxford Real Farming Conference connects people in the UK and around the globe who want to transform our food and farming system.
Slug
Widely present in many horticultural and arable fields, slugs can damage crops all year round. With impacts on yield and/or quality potentially severe, it is important to suppress populations of…
EU logo
A wide range of EU funded projects and networks contribute to the knowledge landscape in agriculture.
Report Cover
Report launched by the NFU, Innovate UK and CEIA, reveals challenges that UK farmers and growers want researchers to prioritise solving. 
Guide Cover
Guidance for farmers, growers, advisors, and agricultural contractors on how to maximise the benefits of using digestate and compost as renewable fertilisers. 
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water
This page is to connect organisations, projects and resources that have an interest in improving the quality of our water sources.
A unique college in and around the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales, to create a future where nature and humans thrive. BMC focuses on the challenge of our times: how to build a fair and just…
tractor spraying
Published in 1999, this report forms part of the work associated with the Integrated Farming systems (IFS) project (1992-1998). The aim of the study was to determine whether there is any difference…