| RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION FARMS - THE ALLERTON PROJECT FARMING YEAR


Reduced tillage has been increasingly adopted. © Phil Jarvis/GWCT


to reducing the effect of pesticides, and the National Register of Spray Operators (NRoSO) scheme were launched. Latterly we have seen zero-tillage being increas- ingly adopted, cross-compliance rules augmented with greening measures, the Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) re-emerge invigorated; hundreds of farmers, agronomists and farm advisors achieve the GWCT/BASIS Certificate in Conservation Management; the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) launched, which records the hundreds of thousands of hectares of land which are uncropped each year; the Sustainable Use Directive brought in compulsory sprayer ‘MOTs’ and farmers are required to be trained spray operators; the number of approved chemicals reduced by three-quarters, eliminating many products because of their negative environmental impact; and thanks to ground-breaking research by the GWCT, supple- mentary feeding has been added as a new stewardship option. Visit our Allerton Project farm at Loddington and you’ll see a wider range of crops


being grown than ever before including wheat, oilseed rape, oats, beans, rotational grass and a record area of spring crops (see Figure 1). The fields destined for spring


Figure 2


Gross profit* and farm profit at the Allerton Project 1994-2016


*Gross profit = farm profit plus profit foregone to research, education and conservation


Gross profit Farm profit


180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0


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£000


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