2011/2012 workshops
9 February 2012, Nottinghamshire, UK
This event is being held on a farm which adopted a controlled traffic system in 2009 and is using some cultivation as well as no-till.
Growing a rotation of wheat and oilseed rape it is typical of many farms across the UK and has soils mainly classified as clayey river
alluvium and stagnogleyic argillic brown earths.
The programme will cover the following topics and has 5 BASIS and 2 NRoSo points attached to it:
An introduction to CTF
Operation of the CTF system at Farmeco
The Catchment Sensitive Farming Project
An integrated approach to managing soils and crops, taking account of nutrient cycling, biology and organic additions
Tillage management within a controlled traffic context.
Our speakers will inlcude:
David Rose, (Farmeco); Ian Robertson (Glenside Group); Des Kay, (local CSF officer); Kevin Owen, (P.A. Wright and Sons Ltd), Steve Townsend (Soil First Farming); Tim Chamen (CTF Europe).
Click here to book for this event (before 6 Feb).
22 February 2012. West Loanend Farm, Horncliffe, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
The programme for this Catchment Sensitive sponsored day is now available from this link
The meeting will be on one of the two farms run by our farmer member, Robert Ramsay. Robert is already progressing CTF on his farm in
Angus and wants to assess how CTF could be developed in this different situation of cropping, soils and machinery. The neighbouring much larger farm is also considering
how they can move to CTF in a very different scenario.
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27 February 2012. Soil and Water Management Day at Harper Adams, UK
This is a pre-launch event for the new Soil and Water Management Centre being set up at Harper Adams University College for knowledge transfer and industry-led research.
Bookings for this event, partly sponsored by industry but chiefly by Catchment Sensitive Farming are presently by invitation.
Download a programme from here
Please contact Tim if you are interested.
6 March 2012. Cover cropping and strip tillage. Chicksands, Bedfordshire, UK
The programme for this workshop has now been finalised and represents a unique opportunity to further your knowledge in these topic areas. Download the
programme from from here
If you are interested please e-mail Tim for booking arrangements.