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Winter Forum (West)

Event date :
Event date: 
16 February 2012
Location :
Location: 
Harper Adams University College, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 8NB


Agenda

10:00 am  Registration and coffee

10:30 am  Welcome – Sharon Hall, Potato Council

10:45 am  Cost of cultivations – Eric Anderson, Scottish Agronomy

11:15 am  PCN control and Nematicide Incorporation – Pat Haydock, HAUC

11:45 am  Break

12:00 pm  Nitrogen and Canopy Management – Marc Allison, Cambridge University Farms

12:30 pm  Lunch with demonstration of the PCN management tool (Gary Collins) and an update on Catchment Sensitive Farming (Sarah Olney)

13:30 pm  Discussion session 1 5 minutes to move to next workshop

14:20 pm  Discussion session 2 5 minutes to move to next workshop

15:10 pm  Discussion session 3 5 minutes to move to main area

16:00 pm  Closing remarks and finish

Discussion Sessions

  1. Blight, adopting the latest research– Ruairidh Bain, SAC and David Cooke, James Hutton Institute
  2. Green manures– Ken Smith, ADAS and Phil Bradshaw, Potato Council
  3. Water Benchmarking- Andre Daccache, Cranfield

To register email miya.kotecha@potato.ahdb.org.uk