project - Innovative project
YEN Yield Testing
YEN Yield Testing
Objectives
The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) already networks innovative farmers. Our idea is for 24 YEN innovators to (i) form ideas for yield enhancement, (iii) robustly test their success on adjacent tramlines and (iii) share findings with farmers and crop scientists. The farmers’ initial idea is 'little-and-often nitrogen' since YEN winners have used this approach. However, the unique aspect here is to use ‘ADAS Agronōmics technology’ to gauge the robustness of their potential yield enhancing ideas, so kick-starting farmers’ capability to ‘accumulate marginal gains’ in yields by specifying confidence levels, even for small effects. Ideas shared between farmers and scientists will also become better trusted. After disseminating this approach, any arable business will be able to test, share and accumulate series of improvements in agronomy, hence perpetually enhancing the industry’s productivity, profitability, and environmental efficiency.
Objectives
The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) already networks innovative farmers. Our idea is for 24 YEN innovators to (i) form ideas for yield enhancement, (iii) robustly test their success on adjacent tramlines and (iii) share findings with farmers and crop scientists. The farmers’ initial idea is 'little-and-often nitrogen' since YEN winners have used this approach. However, the unique aspect here is to use ‘ADAS Agronōmics technology’ to gauge the robustness of their potential yield enhancing ideas, so kick-starting farmers’ capability to ‘accumulate marginal gains’ in yields by specifying confidence levels, even for small effects. Ideas shared between farmers and scientists will also become better trusted. After disseminating this approach, any arable business will be able to test, share and accumulate series of improvements in agronomy, hence perpetually enhancing the industry’s productivity, profitability, and environmental efficiency.
Activities
(1.) Collect and prioritise farmers ideas for yield enhancement through Ideas Labs', (2.) Prepare and distribute guidelines for farmer yield tests, (3.) Enlist members of 'Idea Groups' who agree to test the same question and appoint academic facilitator and industry supporters for each IG, (4.) Design yield-tests, and prepare farm yield-test database with field information, (5.) collect yield-test data and analyse supporting samples, (6.) Analyse and report data from each test, and (7.) prepare conclusions and messages.
Activities
(1.) Collect and prioritise farmers ideas for yield enhancement through Ideas Labs', (2.) Prepare and distribute guidelines for farmer yield tests, (3.) Enlist members of 'Idea Groups' who agree to test the same question and appoint academic facilitator and industry supporters for each IG, (4.) Design yield-tests, and prepare farm yield-test database with field information, (5.) collect yield-test data and analyse supporting samples, (6.) Analyse and report data from each test, and (7.) prepare conclusions and messages.
Further details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020
Agricultural sectors
Cereals, Oil cropsProject keyword
Contacts
Roger Sylvester-Bradley
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Project coordinator
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Hutchinsons
Project partner
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CPM magazine
Project partner
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Rothamsted Research
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AHDB
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Tom Bradshaw (Essex)
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David Hoyles (Lincs)
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Andrew Pitts (Northants)
Project partner
1 Practice Abstracts
We are gauging the provenance of innovations by using a new way of gauging the confidence that farmers should put in the results of any crop yield comparisons that they may make.
We are gauging the provenance of innovations by using a new way of gauging the confidence that farmers should put in the results of any crop yield comparisons that they may make.