Ahdb Cereals & Oilseeds

Last month, we hosted some speaker sessions at Groundswell covering topics on regenerative agriculture, crop rotation, perennial agriculture, genetic diversity of grains, and composting. In this podcast, Jason Hendy, Knowledge Exchange Manager, AHDB, brings together a summary of each session, including interviews with the speakers. Speakers Day one - session one: Mind the Gap John Pawsey, Mind the Gap session speaker at Groundswell Alice Andrews, Cereals Rural Jonathan Hodgson, Great Newsome Farm James Standen, Director of Farms, Newcastle University Farms Session two: Is perennial agriculture the future? Stephen Briggs, Senior Partner at Abacus Agriculture, head of technical development at Innovation for Agriculture & Non Exec Director of AHDB David Miller, Famer Dominic Amos, Organic Arable Emily Grant, Sheep farmer and an independent consultant Day two - session three: Discussing the genetic diversity of grains Michael Marriage, Farmer at Doves Farm Foods ltd DR Phil Howell, Lead NIAB’s germplasm