ADAS

ADAS is the UK’s largest independent provider of agricultural and environmental applied/strategic research and consultancy. Established over 65 years ago, ADAS has offices throughout England and Wales, including a major agricultural research site near Cambridge. Over 500 staff deliver national and international projects in 60 specialisms including crop nutrition, crop physiology, crop protection (disease management, weed management and pest management), soils, water, horticulture, on-farm advice and livestock management.

Their great strength is the breadth and depth of their expertise spanning the entire agricultural and environmental sector. Science underpins all of ADAS’ work and is key to delivering sound, evidence-based and innovative solutions that are practical and deliver benefit to their clients.

ADAS leads and project manages many collaborative projects with commercial and academic partners. Their practical engagement with the agriculture industry and wider environment ensures their work delivers real impact. ADAS is involved in a large number of InnovateUK and Agri-Tech Catalyst projects covering a wide range of areas including crop protection, horticulture, breeding, precision farming and animal health. ADAS clients and collaborators include all the major organisations in the Agri-Tech community and ADAS leads the Yield Enhancement Network to foster innovation in yield improvement with farmers, industry and researchers.

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Member's Area/s of Interest

Research

INNO-VEG: New guidance published on using crop sensing data to assess the performance of field vegetable and potato crops in farm experiments

The INNO-VEG project is developing innovative methods for carrying out research into field vegetable and potato crops. The project has recently published a ‘Protocol’ which provides guidance on how crop sensing data can be used to assess crop performance.

YEN-Zero Launches July 2021

YEN Zero is a recently established network in the ADAS YEN Family, with the overarching aim of creating a net-zero community.

The Covid-19 disruption presents an opportunity to rethink the way that knowledge exchange happens in agriculture

Covid-19 has disrupted the normal way information and advice is shared and accessed in the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS); it has also brought new opportunities for the use of digital media and tools.

New guidelines published to prevent glyphosate resistance

Practical glyphosate application guidelines, by the Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG), will help arable growers reduce the increasing risk of glyphosate resistance developing in grass weeds. The guidelines have been updated in 2021 following five years of ADAS research into optimising the effectiveness of glyphosate on arable weeds to help prevent resistance.

ADAS proud to sponsor 2021 British Farming Awards

ADAS is proud to announce we are sponsoring the Agri-tech Innovator of the Year award at the 2021 British Farming Awards. Find out more about the category and how to submit your applications.

Farm Performance Enhancement Platform – Farm PEP

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the ways that we communicate. ADAS has gained funding from Innovate UK to use this learning to good effect and will co-create a new digital solution called Farm Performance Enhancement Platform, or Farm-PEP. Farm-PEP will connect projects and people, integrating tools and initiatives and providing an online community space for knowledge sharing.

YEN Zero - Agri-TechExpress Event

Find out more about YEN Zero which was discussed at the January Agri-TechExpress event by Daniel Kindred,

REAP20 - Guide to Farmers' Crop Trials

As shared on their stand at REAP 20, ADAS' 'Guide to Farmers' Crop Trials'.

ADAS Research Project: SUPER-G: Developing sustainable permanent grassland systems & policies

SUPER-G, aims to co-develop sustainable permanent grassland systems and policies with farmers and policy makers that will be effective in optimising productivity, whilst supporting biodiversity and delivering a number of other public goods and services. SUPER-G is a 5-year, multi-actor project under the Horizon 2020 SFS-27-2017 call. The SUPER-G consortium is made up of 20 project partners involving 20+ farm networks and 17+ experimental platforms and field experiments across 5 biogeographical regions in Europe. The project is benchmarking & synthesizing data on permanent grassland performance through evidence reviews, field experimentation, expert elicitation and modelling. Outputs and impacts from SUPER-G include: 1) Better understanding of the importance and functioning of permanent grasslands 2) Increased availability and uptake of grassland management options & technologies 3) Improved competitiveness of farming systems based on or including permanent grassland 4) Development of agricultural and environmental policies that support optimal management of permanent grasslands

Crop Sensing for Field Vegetables - Agri-Tech Week 2020

The ADAS Agri-Tech Week 2020 event brought together drone imagery and remote-sensing experts, together with researchers and growers from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia.

Soil and Nutrient Management with NIAB and ADAS

Join Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Head of Crop Performance at ADAS, and David Clarke, Soil Scientist at NIAB, as we cover the results of 120 year long field trials, and the Yield Enhancement Network competition findings.

ADAS at the Royal Norfolk Show

Take a look at ADAS's stand at the Innovation Hub 2020, which went virtual in response to the cancellation of the Royal Norfolk Show.

INNO-VEG 2020 field scale experiments

The INNO-VEG project aims to increase the speed and uptake of innovation in the field vegetable and potato sectors by defining and implementing a new approach for delivering cost-effective research. This year, field validation experiments have been set up to test the protocol in larger field-scale experiments and to develop this into a ‘Framework for farmer-led research’. Fourteen field scale experiments, covering a range of topics, have been set up in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

ADAS win success in £1 million Future Farming Resilience Funding

Nine organisations, including Agri-TechE members Brown & Co and ADAS, have been awarded a share of the government’s £1 million Future Farming Resilience Funding.

YEN Yield Testing Message Lab

We invite you to join us for a meeting where we will discuss trial results, summarise farmers’ experiences of being actively involved in knowledge generation, and share our plans for progressing the FIG way of working.

Building on success: using farmer experience to guide future research to boost crop productivity

Practical ways to implement the Agriculture Bill's pledge to support farmers doing their own research will come under scrutiny at an event to be held by the ADAS YEN network. Farmers interested in on-farm trials are encouraged to attend the meeting, due to be held in Kettering on 6 Feb, to explore ways to enhance farm productivity.

INNO-VEG launches - chance to hear more at REAP

The official launch is on the 31 October 2019 at Rusthoeve Research Centre, Colijnsplaat, Netherlands but there will be a chance to talk to the UK lead partner ADAS at REAP.

Does crop sensing data correlate with improved yields?

Almost 50 field experiments are being set up across Europe as part of the INNO-VEG project, developing innovative methods for vegetable and potato crop research that can be easily upscaled and adopted by farmers

The top ten tenets of ‘agronomics’ – farmer-centric research

This review of our top ten tenets of agronomics suggests that essential innovations need to be conceptual and social more than physical, so difficult to justify commercially.

Latest innovations in crop research presented at European Conference

Our Crop Physiology team was in Montpellier last week to discuss the different innovative approaches to crop performance at the 12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture. The conference, held bi-annually, brings together innovators behind crop science from across Europe, North and South America, Australia and China to share ideas for the sustainable intensification of crop production.

Exciting opportunities to work for ADAS

ADAS are currently adverstising for two exciting roles: - Project Manager of Yield Enhancement Networks - Crop Research Consultant Head over to our Opportunity Zone to find out more.