News & Updates

A promising start for farmer-led research. Reflections on 1 year of ADOPT

Leo Townsend — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:22:35 GMT

A promising start for farmer-led research

ARC's first ADOPT Project: Yorkshire Crop Nutrition Club

daniel@arcagsci.com (Daniel Kindred) — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:37:00 GMT

ARC started our first Defra ADOPT project in November – the "Yorkshire Crop Nutrition Club" – testing approaches to help farmers make better on-farm decisions with crop nutrition.

There are an ever increasing number of tools promising to save fertiliser or increase yield through a range of sensing, measurement, data analytics and forecasting technologies.

ADOPT Opportunities – funding for on-farm trials

daniel@arcagsci.com (Daniel Kindred) — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:26:03 GMT

The newly launched ADOPT programme from Defra and Innovate UK presents a major opportunity for UK agriculture to embed innovation directly into the hands of farmers. As a new funding stream designed specifically to support on-farm testing and demonstration, ADOPT aligns perfectly with the mission of the Agronomy Research Circle: to understand what works on-farm through Explanations, Evidence, Experimentation, and Exchange.