Knowledge

Farm-PEP aims to bring together all the sources of useful knowledge for Agriculture, whether from academic science, applied research projects, industry trials, farmers own trials or simple on-farm experience. Listed below are useful websites, organisations and websites that we know of. Add any we've missed in the comments box or by adding as new content, or better still, as a new Group.

Many organisations are involved in the knowledge landscape of UK agriculture, some of which are shown below. Farm-PEP aims to help connect across these organisations and initiatives to generate, share and distill knowledge across the community.

Lots of resources on the web that aim to produce and collate knowledge for different audiences and different purposes across agriculture and food, but they are not necessarily known to all.

Below we've listed some of the useful sources we know of, but this isn't exhaustive. Please add any we've missed, and let us know which you think are most useful and why.

Levy Bodies	Knowledge Repositories
AHDB - Cereals, Oliseeds, Dairy, Beef, Lamb & Pigs	National Library for Agrifood
PGRO - Pulses	Agricology
BBRO - Sugar beet	Ask Valerie
	BovINE Knowledge Hub
	Organic Research Centre
	Organic Farm Knowledge
Regional	Table
Farming Connect - Wales	Farm Wildlife
SAOS - Scotland	Conservation Evidence
RISS - Rural Innovation Support Service - Scotland	Catchment Based Approach Pin Point
Swarmhub - South West	Ecosystems Knowledge Network
	National Biodiversity Network
	Environmental Evidence

Communities & Networks	Organisations	Events
The Farming Forum	ADAS	Groundswell
Innovative Farmers	NIAB	Oxford Farming Conference
Agri-techE	SRUC	Oxford Real Farming Conference
BASE UK	CHAP	Cereals
Regen Agri	Agri-EPI	Grassland & Muck
Farm Community Network - FarmWell	CIEL	CropTec
Nature Friendly Farming Network	Agrimetrics	REAP
Nuffield Farming Scholarships	Innovation for Agriculture
Yield Enhancement Networks	LEAF
British Society of Soil Science	BASIS
Association of Applied Biologists	Maize Growers Association	AAB conferences
Farmer Clusters
British Society of Animal Science
British Grassland Society
Farm Carbon Toolkit
Food, Farming & Countryside Commision
Pasture Fed Livestock Association
RABDF
GrowIN

Farming Press	Academic	Podcasts
Farmers Weekly	Rothamsted Repository	Farming Today
Farmers Guardian	Gateway to Research	Future Farming - Defra
Agronomist and Arable Farmer	Burleigh Dodds Publishing	Rock & Roll Farming
Crop Production Magazine		Over the Farm Gate
Agriland		Crop It like its Hot
Future Farming
Poultry World
The Poultry Site
Pig World

Commercial	Education & Skills	International
	TIAH	EIP-Agri
BASF Real Results Virtual Farm	BASIS	EU Farmbook
Agrii iFarms	National Land Based College	Sho-yae-fae
Hutchinsons Helix Farm	FarmEd	TAPipedia
Agrovista		All Ag Considered
Syngenta
Bayer
Frontier
Promar	Kingshay

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15/02/2022 - 06:14

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AHDB

We deliver transformational projects to drive productivity and boost farming and supply chain businesses. We want the industry to thrive in a rapidly changing world and continue to produce high quality food, maintain our beautiful landscape and leave a legacy for generations to come.

DEFRA

The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs.

Farming Innovation Programme (FIP)

The Farming Innovation Programme is part of Defra’s investment in innovation, research and development. Defra is partnering with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on the programme.

BASIS

BASIS is a charitable organisation committed to independently raising professional standards across the land management and food production sectors, by supporting people and businesses with our industry leading qualifications, professional memberships and auditing schemes.

Agricultural Universities Council (AUC-UK)

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Education & Skills

Building the right skills for the agricultural industry has been recognised as crucial to its future success.

CaBA Agricultural Advice Hub

A free to use online data hub building on the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) data package providing spatially relevant local information to farmers, land managers and advisors.

Farming Connect

Knowledge and business support for farmers in Wales

SRUC

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) was established in 2012 through the merger of the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) with Barony, Elmwood and Oatridge Colleges. Through these institutions, we can trace our lineage back over 100 years.

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Farm-centric research generally involves On-Farm Experimentation and may be better described as 'Farm Action Research', i.e. research conducted at least in part by and for beneficiaries who also farm.

Rothamsted Research

Rothamsted Research is a world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide.

Funding

Funding available for research and knowledge exchange in the UK comes from a mix of public, industry and charitable sources

Farm-PEP

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PGRO

As the UK's centre of excellence for peas and beans, the PGRO has a long and highly valued track record of providing authoritative, up to date information and project work based on solid, reliable research.

NCSPulse PEP

AICC

AICC member agronomists are now the preferred source of advice on over 2.2 million hectares, which is almost half of the UK’s arable land, and the demand for it is stronger than ever

Events

Agricultural Shows have always been a very important place for farmers and the industry to share knowledge. The nature of agricultural shows has changed, but there are now an increasing number of staple events for a range of communities.

Innovate UK KTN

We create diverse connections to drive positive change.

RAU Royal Agricultural University

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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing

Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing is an award winning independent publisher founded by Rob Burleigh and Francis Dodds in 2015. Our mission is to bring you the key research and latest trends to empower you to make a positive impact on sustainable agriculture, climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. More information at www.bdspublishing.com.

Oxford Farming Conference 2023

OFC 2023 will explore systemic solutions to the cumulative biodiversity, climate, food and energy crises that collectively we are facing, with optimism and determination not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

James Hutton Institute

The James Hutton Institute combines strengths in crops, soils and land use and environmental research, and makes a major contribution to the understanding of key global issues, such as food, energy and environmental security, and developing and promoting effective technological and management solutions to these.

NCSPulse PEP

FarmPEP: a platform to support farm-centric knowledge generation and knowledge exchange - IFS Poster abstract

Poster paper given at IFS 2022 by Daniel Kindred, Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Pete Berry and colleagues. Conventional routes to generating knowledge of ‘what works’ in agriculture have relied on (i) farmers developing their experiences and passing these on locally, and (ii) researchers conducting small plot experiments on a limited number of sites, analysing data and drawing conclusions in a more generic top-down fashion. The advent of (i) the internet enabling ideas and data to be shared widely and (ii) precision farming technologies enabling comparisons or trials by farms, provides the opportunity to interconnect the top-down approach with a more robust farm-centric bottom-up approach.

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Networks

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Farming Press & Newsletters

The farming press is a very important route to disseminating knowledge across the industry. A range of newsletters serving a host of communities help keep people up to date. Share here sources of news and info that you find most useful.

Useful websites

What web resources do you find useful to find and share knowledge?

CCRI - Countryside & Community Research Institute

An internationally excellent Research Institute” (REF, 2021). Shaping rural development policy and practice in the UK, Europe and further afield.

Knowledge Exchange

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National Library for Agrifood - NLAF

The National Library for Agri-Food serves agri-food practitioners by providing access to recent, high quality, science-evidenced information and guidance in a well-constructed online repository with good metadata standards for easy searching and robust perma-links to content.

Harper Adams University

As the population grows, so do our demands on the planet. Managing this resource has never been so important. Since it was founded in 1901, Harper has been designed to meet this challenge. Set on a 494 hectare farm, we are the leading specialist university tackling the future development of our planet's food production, processing, animal sciences, engineering, land management and sustainable business.

Policy

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Professional Development

Professional development is an important part of a career journey - an opportunity for continuous learning, a way to stay up-to-date and to demonstrate relevance and expertise. Professional development activities can be completed in a number of different ways, from attending a training course, an event or a meeting to taking part in a webinar, listening to a podcast, reading an industry magazine or being a professional member of an organisation. Those on the BASIS Professional Register, FACTS Qualifed Advisers, RoSA sheep advisers and those on the Environmental Advisers Register are all required to collect a certain number of CPD (continuous professional development) points on an annual basis to demonstrate their commitment to enhancing knowledge and skills. For more information, please visit: https://basis-reg.co.uk/schemes.

Nuffield Farming Scholarships

The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust is a charity organisation whose aim is to bring positive change to agriculture through the development of its future leaders, sending them overseas to learn from others and helping them share their brilliant ideas when they return home.

CPM - Crop Production Magazine

The UK's best-read arable journal

Guide to Farmers' Crop Trials

Guidance from ADAS Agronomics on how best to conduct Line Trials on farm.

Pulse PEP

Rank Prize Funds

We bring together bright young researchers and the most eminent in their fields. We stimulate and support their work. Then we celebrate the breakthrough ideas that emerge, and the difference they make to the world.

Organic Research Centre (ORC)

The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is the UK's leading independent organic research organisation. Changing the future of food and farming.

Application of Science to Realise the Potential of the Agricultural Transition

Report by Lord Curry (Food & Farming Futures), James Lowenburg-DeBoer and Michael Lee (Harper Adams University) into how agricultural science and extension can be supported and co-ordinated to address the productivity gap in UK agriculture.

GrowIN

Northern Ireland farmer-led innovation

Riseholme College

Based in Lincolnshire, a specialist land-based college with a wide range of Further Education and Higher Education courses, from Agriculture and Equine to Sport and Food.

TAPipedia: knowledge sharing hub on agricultural innovation (no need to register to access content)

Dear colleagues, since this group is about agricultural innovation, you might find useful to have

Local and farmers' knowledge matters! How integrating informal and formal knowledge enhances sustainable and resilient agriculture

Refereed paper in Journal of Rural Studies by Sandra Šūmane and colleagues (2018).

Food & Farming Futures F&FF

The independent, collaborative news and information source for farming and food

TMAF The Morley Agricultural Foundation

The Morley Agricultural Foundation is a charity that supports farming in the East of England by funding agricultural research, student studies, professional development of farmers and others and a variety of educational projects for school age children.

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AKIS

The Agriculture Knowledge & Innovation System

EU Projects

A wide range of EU funded projects and networks contribute to the knowledge landscape in agriculture.

National Farm Advice Network

Initiative led by Jenny Phelps to bring together farm advisors to enable joined up discussions and collaborations farm advice.

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Reading University

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The University of Edinburgh

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Exchange knowledge, enhance organic farming. Organic Farm Knowledge is a web platform dedicated to sharing practices on organic farming.

University of York

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The Knowledge Exchange Hub is a joint collaboration between Farming Connect and IBERS, Aberystwyth University.

University of Aberdeen

Writtle University College

Put Science into Practice

Earlham Institute

Kingshay

Whatever your challenges, from practical to strategic, Kingshay have the expertise to help you get the best from your farm.

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Facilitating on farm trials. A FarmPEP workshop exploring their potential.

Join us to explore the pros and cons of facilitating farm trials.

Design guide for on-farm demonstrations

The demo design guide summarizes in 6 steps how to design an on-farm demonstration event, starting from a clear definition of the objectives and ending with a good evaluation and follow-up.

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