About the event

Hosted at Dyson Farming, this event brings together farmers, researchers, technology developers and industry specialists to explore some of the latest agricultural innovations being developed and tested in UK crop production.

The focus throughout the day will be on the practical challenges facing farm businesses, how we use inputs more efficiently, reduce costs and emissions, improve crop performance, and determine which emerging technologies can genuinely deliver value at commercial scale.

What to expect

The morning session which will focus on combinable crops, sugar beet and vining peas. Topics will include reducing emissions from crop nutrition, results from large-scale biostimulant trials, improving nitrogen-use efficiency, new crop and seed technologies, optimising plant populations in vining peas, and using precision approaches to improve sugar beet nutrition.

After lunch, the focus will move specifically to potato production, looking at new approaches to biological pest control using hoverflies and digital monitoring, fog-based seed potato production, results from potato biostimulant trials, lower-emission crop nutrition, and trials investigating how far inputs can be reduced without compromising crop performance.

Hear directly from leading collaborative project partners including Dyson Farming Research; Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust; Processors and Growers Research Organisation; British Beet Research Organisation; Marinatex; and Airponix as they share the latest results from agricultural innovation being tested in practice.

This is an opportunity to discover the impactful results that the ADOPT technology trials are delivering and how this will benefit commercial farms.

Why attend?

Attendees will be able to:

• hear directly from Dyson farming project partners on the outcomes of their projects and their learnings
• meet project partners and explore collaboration
• hear from the Innovate UK and delivery partners about future plans for the programme and how to start your own ADOPT or FIP projects

Who should attend?

This event would be beneficial for:

• farmers
• grower groups
• retailers

About ADOPT & FIP

ADOPT is part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, supporting collaborative farmer-led, on-farm trials or experiments to generate, test and demonstrate innovative solutions and practices to farming challenges.