BBSRC National Bioscience Research Infrastructure: North Wyke Farm Platform
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The NWFP facilitates farm-scale research on productivity and ecosystem responses to diverse management practices for beef cattle and sheep production. Since establishment in 2010 research uniquely informed by the platform’s open datasets (currently 80+ million measurements) has helped identify sustainable net zero land management strategies that optimise the transfer of essential nutrients from soil to crops and livestock to food; thereby simultaneously contributing to a healthy diet and cleaner natural environment. The NWFP consists of three outdoor and one indoor farm where two of the outdoor farms periodically transition to alternative (including non-livestock) farm systems while the third acts as a long-term control. All farms are heavily monitored and provide high-value systems-scale data on soils crops livestock biodiversity water/gaseous emissions farm management and weather that can be openly accessed via our data portal that is coupled with a wealth of additional online information to facilitate use. In context of a baseline period (2010-13) where the three outdoor livestock farms (termed ‘green’ ‘red’ and ‘blue’) were all under permanent pasture the platform periodically undertakes a system change with associated hypotheses which are assessed and used to inform subsequent system changes and their duration. For the first system-change period (2013-19) ‘red’ and ‘blue’ pastures were re-seeded while for the second system-change period (2019 to 2024) ‘red’ transitioned to arable and in doing so created a fourth indoor system for cattle (‘brown’). Given increasing climatic variability a critical challenge concerns approaches to reliably detect impacts of the different farm systems per se – meaning the platform’s full potential will only be realised in the long-term. The NWFP also acts as an open physical facility. Experiments can inform on the over-arching 4-farm-scale experiment or provide a self-contained study. For the platform to service its long-term objectives some constraints on experimentation are inherent that limit research scope. This is nonetheless an essential facet in realising its primary research and data delivery aims.
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- Rothamsted Research (Lead Research Organisation)
- British Ecological Society (Collaboration)
- Royal Agricultural University (RAU) (Collaboration)
- The Donkey Sanctuary (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Scotland's Rural College (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Duchy College (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- AGRI-FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- University of Southern Queensland (Collaboration)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
Publications
Blackwell M
(2024)
Potential unintended consequences of agricultural land use change driven by dietary transitions
in npj Sustainable Agriculture
Comber A
(2023)
Multiscale spatially varying coefficient modelling using a Geographical Gaussian Process GAM
in International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Cooke AS
(2023)
Comparison of the welfare of beef cattle in housed and grazing systems: hormones, health, and behaviour.
in The Journal of agricultural science
Crotty F
(2023)
Evaluating the Impact of Long-Term Land Use Change and Age since Disturbance on Soil Faunal Diversity
in Forests
De-Meo-Filho P
(2023)
The North Wyke Farm Platform: GreenFeed System Methane and Carbon Dioxide Data
De-Meo-Filho P
(2023)
The North Wyke Farm Platform: GreenFeed System Methane and Carbon Dioxide Data
Elayadeth-Meethal M
(2023)
Comparison of lipid profiles in the faeces of beef cattle fed three common temperate grass silage diets and their relevance to dietary composition
in Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences
| Description | Evidence Week in Parliament - Intelligent Farming |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | A national UK programme in AI and digital twins to address the biodiversity and climate crisis (Chris Baker) |
| Amount | £5,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y028880/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Innovation Accelerator Award - Post Graduate Data Smash (Phil Le Grice) |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | International Support Fund (Capacity Building) - APSIM model with Remote Sensing (Gonzalo Irisarri) |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | International Support Fund (Capacity Building) - How is Corporate Leadership of Environmental, Social and Governance impacting on the research requirements of Agri-Food Business (Phil Le Grice) |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Description | Lead Organisation: Waste & Resources Action Programme Opportunity Name: VFU041 - Long term improvement in environmental data for food (Phil Le Grice) |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 05/2025 |
| Title | Improved collections and sensing for biodiversity |
| Description | Collections include: citizen science app., bio-acoustic recorders |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | Improved collections and sensing for water chemistry |
| Description | Capability enhanced for TP, TN and TC |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | implementation of N2O measurements on EC tower |
| Description | purchased and installed new GC system to measure N2O |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | this is part of a new Denitrification Incubation System (DENIS) to incorporate plants and measure GHG emissions from a soil-plant system |
| Title | A 4-year comparison of pasture mixtures, including those with deep-rooting Festulolium, on herbage and soil and root properties in 50 cm cores, plus associated botanical species surveys. |
| Description | This dataset was collected between 2014 and 2018 to investigate how different grass and clover varieties affect soil and herbage properties at a field scale. In particular, to determine whether Festulolium with a deep root architecture could increase carbon storage in grassland subsoils. Fields sown with Festulolium (cv. Prior, and later cv. BX511), perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv. Abermagic), both either alone or sown with white clover (Trifolium repens cv. Aberherald), or permanent pasture were studied. Data were collected on 6 occasions: in Sept 2014, May and Sept 2015, May 2016, Oct 2017 and Sept 2018. On the first four sample dates, the same 7 fields were sampled, and 5 replicate samples were taken from each. On the last two sample dates, only 3 of the fields were sampled, again with 5 replicate samples taken. Data includes: Soil, root and herbage carbon and nitrogen contents (percentage and stable isotope); herbage yield; botanical survey of species present and percentage cover; root mass; soil bulk density; count of macroinvertebrates present; clay depth. The experiment took place on the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP), a UK National Capability in SW England. The NWFP is split into a number of self-contained farms ('farmlets') that are managed according to different operation philosophies or practices. At the time of the experiment, there were three farmlets on the NWFP with different pasture management strategies. Permanent pasture (PP), a perennial ryegrass monoculture (HS) which was sown with a high sugar Lolium perenne cv. AberMagic, and a white clover/perennial ryegrass mix (WC) with the same ryegrass variety as the HS pasture. The exception were the fields known as Longlands North (WC farmlet) and Longlands East (HS farmlet), where the perennial ryegrass was replaced with Festulolium. The PP and HS pastures received N fertilizer at a standard rate, but the WC pastures did not due to the inclusion of a legume. Fields within a farmlet are cut for silage and grazed by cattle and sheep, with livestock grazing or consuming silage only from one farmlet. The Longlands North, Longlands East and Longlands South (PP farmlet) are treated as a 'trio', that typically undergo very similar timings in agricultural management, such as grazing by the same species at the same time, as far as is feasible. The NWFP is highly instrumented and monitored, and core NWFP datasets are open and include in-situ water flow and chemistry taken at 15-minute intervals; 15-minute Met measurements; 15-minute soil moisture measurements; 30-minute GHG emissions; soils, crop and botanical field survey data; livestock and crop performance data; and farm operational activities, and contextual information is also available. See https://nwfp.rothamsted.ac.uk/. There are guides to the NWFP, including maps and establishment information, available at http://resources.rothamsted.ac.uk/farm-platform-national-capability/data-portal-guides-and-information. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Unknown at present |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98y26/a-4-year-comparison-of-pasture-mixtures-including-tho... |
| Title | Effect of pasture composition in cattle grazed systems on soil properties and nutrient cycling: impact on herbage, soil and cattle excreta |
| Description | Full experimental details can be found in McAuliffe et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106978, and Segura et al. (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117096. The experiment took place on the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP), a UK National Capability in SW England. The NWFP is split into a number of self-contained farms ('farmlets') that are managed according to different operation philosophies or practices. The NWFP is highly instrumented and monitored, and core NWFP datasets are open and include in-situ water flow and chemistry taken at 15-minute intervals; 15-minute Met measurements; 15-minute soil moisture measurements; 30-minute GHG emissions; soils, crop and botanical field survey data; livestock and crop performance data; and farm operational activities, and contextual information is also available. See https://nwfp.rothamsted.ac.uk/. At the time of the experiment, there were three farmlets on the NWFP with different pasture management strategies. Permanent pasture (PP), a perennial ryegrass monoculture (HS) which was sown with a high sugar Lolium perenne cv. AberMagic, and a white clover/perennial ryegrass mix (WC) with the same ryegrass variety as the HS pasture. The PP and HS pastures received N fertilizer at a standard rate, but the WC pastures did not due to the inclusion of a legume. Fields within a farmlet are cut for silage and grazed by cattle and sheep, with livestock grazing or consuming silage only from one farmlet. This experiment used a single field from each farmlet, chosen as they represent a trio of fields that typically undergo very similar timings in agricultural management, such as grazing by the same species at the same time, as far as is feasible. Within each field there were three experimental blocks each containing six plots (2.5 x 1.5 m). Each of the six plots within a block were randomised to controls or treatments. Treatments were dung, cattle urine, or synthetic urine. The dung was collected from fields within a farmlet, homogenised using a concrete mixer, and refrigerated in sealed barrels until application on the plots. Cattle urine was collected from cattle within a farmlet over the period of a couple of days, bulked, and frozen until application on the plots. Synthetic urine was included as a treatment to investigate the effect of pasture composition on N2O emissions to be tested without the confounding effects of different urine compositions. Three plots within each block were controls. One control plot in each block received no N fertilizer, while the other two plots in the PP and HS blocks were controls plus N fertilizer to replicate the rest of the field; the WC blocks had three controls with no N fertilizer as this farmlet does not receive N fertilizer. In some cases, only one of the two plus N fertilizer controls were analysed for some of the measurements. This dataset contains data on herbage yield; soil moisture; soil physical properties (bulk density, mean weight density, soil loss through 50 µm sieve); soil chemistry (various measures of carbon and nitrogen content, pH and ergosterol); herbage and manure total carbon and nitrogen; micro- and macronutrient concentrations of herbage, soil, urine and manure; and earthworm counts. Urine and manure are characterised before being applied as treatments, while soil and forage samples were taken at various time points from shortly before the application of treatments through to several months later. In the case of the micro- and macronutrient content of soil as assessed by ICP, baseline samples - taken prior to the implementation of the farmlet treatments - are also included. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None so far |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98x4z/effect-of-pasture-composition-in-cattle-grazed-system... |
| Title | Field features of the North Wyke Farm Platform: weather, topography, soil, ecosystem services provision index and management |
| Description | This dataset comprises both original outputs generated by the authors (i.e. the Ecosystem Services Provision Index estimated from remote sensing and which can be used as a proxy for carbon inputs to the soil) and derived data obtained after processing data from different sources from 1995 to 2022. This dataset refers to yearly-estimated features for the fields included in the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP), a farm-scale experimental system established in southwestern England in 2010 (Orr et al., 2016). These features refer to weather conditions, topography, soil characteristics and farming management. Together with ESPI, the variables included in this dataset have been used to predict soil organic carbon at the NWFP (Segura et al., 2023). However, its use does not have to be limited to this sole objective. The Ecosystem Services Provision Index (ESPI) was estimated using remote sensing and the methods described in Segura et al. (2023) for the period 1995 to 2022. However, note that only the period from 2012 to 2021 has been used in the manuscript to coincide with data availability from the Farm Platform. To create this dataset, raw data relating to soil properties and field events from 2012 to 2021 were downloaded from the NWFP Data Portal (https://nwfp.rothamsted.ac.uk/) for data processing. From the field survey data, we downloaded relevant soil chemical properties (0-10 cm depth) - total carbon(referred to as soil organic carbon in the manuscript arising from this data), total nitrogen, available phosphorus (as Olsen phosphorus), available potassium, and pH. For a given variable, measurements were averaged to provide a single value per field, per year. Note that due to some adjustments made to homogenise field names over time, there may be a mismatch for some fields between the Data Portal and this dataset. Field event records, relating to daily farm management activities, were also obtained from the NWFP data portal. In this dataset, these farm field events records were interpreted to construct the variables related to the main farming management practices by year and by field. The data from the NWFP data portal are free to access after registration on the portal. North Wyke Farm Platform and Data Portal user guides are available for more detailed information about soil measurements and field events. In particular, the Design, Establishment and Development of the NWFP (https://doi.org/10.23637/rothamsted.98y1x), the user guide for field survey data https://doi.org/10.23637/rothamsted.98y51), the User Guide to Field Events (https://doi.org/10.23637/rothamsted.98y4z) and the User Guide to Livestock data (https://doi.org/10.23637/rothamsted.98y50). The soil units (which show the predominant soil series in a location, according to the British soil classification) were extracted from the report Soils of North Wyke [Harrod and Hogan, 2008]. Meteorological data (monthly mean temperature and monthly precipitation) were provided by a weather station owned and operated by the UK Meteorological Office at North Wyke. Field terrain attributes (aspect and slope) were determined using Google Earth Engine according to the methods described in Segura et al. (2023), or by using the information provided in https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2005RG000183 and https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/USGS_SRTMGL1_003. A full set of variables included in this dataset can be consulted in Columns_units_and_descriptors.csv, which also includes a description of each data column and the units of measurement. The text file main_analyses_figures_code.txt can be used along with the data file to reproduce the main results in Segura et al. (2023). Additional information The North Wyke Farm Platform is a UK National Capability supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBS/E/C/000J0100). We acknowledge the interests of the Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT), whose national network of LTEs includes the experiment on which this research was conducted. Meteorological data adapted from Crown copyright data supplied by the Met Office. During the embargo period, please contact carmen.segura-quirante@rothamsted.ac.uk if you wish to access the data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Unknown at present |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98y60/field-features-of-the-north-wyke-farm-platform-weathe... |
| Title | High resolution flow datasets for surface runoff, surface lateral runoff and drainage pathways from 1 ha sized hydrologically isolated plots. |
| Description | This dataset describes hydrology and rainfall data from a site known as the Rowden Drainage Experiment, which has 14 field-scale (1 ha sized) lysimeter plots. The experimental site was established in 1982 to primarily investigate the effects of land drainage and inorganic fertilizer input on herbage production, animal performance and nutrient losses from permanent and reseeded grassland overlaying impervious subsoils. The hydrology dataset 'RowdenHydrology.csv' comprises hydrological discharge rates (mm / min) expressed as uncertainty envelopes (min and max uncertainty) for flow via surface/subsurface lateral and field drain pathways. The data were collected at 1-minute intervals from Sept 2006 to Oct 2012. Users should be aware that this .csv file is best opened from software such as R or python due to its size. Annual rainfall data collected at 60-minute intervals by two different instruments and spanning the period Sept 2006 - Dec 2012 are also included in 'RowdenRain.csv'. Column units and descriptions are given in the metadata file, 'Column_units_and_descriptors.csv'. 'Fig1.jpg' is a map showing the site layout of the Rowden Drainage Experiment, and 'Fig2.jpg' is an illustration of the collection pathways on the undrained and drained plots. In addition, graphs (.png files) of the mean of the uncertainty envelope values for each plot are included as a visual guide to the data and help illustrate where there are missing data. In these, red lines indicate areas of missing data. For drained plots, the top line represents quality of the surface lateral runoff data, and the bottom line the quality of the drainage data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Data used for hydrological modelling of flood events |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98y67/high-resolution-flow-datasets-for-surface-runoff-surf... |
| Title | Spatial and bulked soil and herbage selenium concentrations in different pasture types in SW England |
| Description | The data included in this dataset are selenium (Se) concentrations of soil and herbage from a number of pasture fields, with additional soil, herbage and farm management data either available as part of this data package or in linked sources. For 20 fields, bulked soil samples and bulked herbage samples (not from the same locations) were taken to be representative of the fields. For three of these fields, additional sampling at point locations was undertaken, with both soil and herbage being taken from the same places. For herbage and soil, total Se was measured. In addition, soil Se bioavailability was assessed through sequential fractionation. Fractions F0 and F1 (see below for methods) are assumed to be soluble Se; fraction F2 is exchangeable Se; fraction F3 is associated with Fe, Al and Mn oxides, carbonates and hydrolysable organic matter, and is assumed to be not readily available to plants; fraction F4 is the residual fraction that is elemental, insoluble and unavailable. The experiment took place on the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP), a UK National Capability in SW England. The NWFP is split into a number of self-contained farms ('farmlets') that are managed according to different operation philosophies or practices. At the time of the experiment, there were three farmlets on the NWFP with different pasture management strategies. Permanent pasture (PP), a perennial ryegrass monoculture (HS) which was sown with a high sugar Lolium perenne cv. AberMagic, and a white clover/perennial ryegrass mix (WC) with the same ryegrass variety as the HS pasture. The PP and HS pastures received N fertilizer at a standard rate, but the WC pastures did not due to the inclusion of a legume. Fields within a farmlet are cut for silage and grazed by cattle and sheep. The NWFP is highly instrumented and monitored, and core NWFP datasets are open and include in-situ water flow and chemistry taken at 15-minute intervals; 15-minute Met measurements; 15-minute soil moisture measurements; 30-minute GHG emissions; soils, crop and botanical field survey data; livestock and crop performance data; and farm operational activities, and contextual information is also available. See https://nwfp.rothamsted.ac.uk/. Registration is required, but all data is freely available for download. Further information about the NWFP, including Guides and Information about the data collected, are available at http://resources.rothamsted.ac.uk/farmplatform. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Unknown at present |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98xxx/spatial-and-bulked-soil-and-herbage-selenium-concentr... |
| Title | Water chemistry of combined surface and subsurface runoff from the North Wyke Farm Platform, with hydrologically isolated catchments sown with different pasture types. |
| Description | This dataset comprises a number of measurements of water chemistry and water quality taken from the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP, Devon, UK) between October 2012 and April 2018. The dataset is an amalgamation of data from a number of experimental campaigns, where water samples from the combined surface and subsurface runoff from hydrologically isolated fields under different pasture types were collected and analysed in the laboratory for water quality measurements. These measurements include dissolved total organic carbon and non-purgeable organic carbon; ammonium, total nitrogen and total oxidisable nitrogen; total and reactive phosphorus; and suspended sediment. Note that this is not a continuous dataset and that not all studies measured the same parameters. Information on sample numbers, dates and laboratory water quality measurements made are given in Summary_of_available_data.csv. The NWFP measures water quality parameters in-situ at water flumes for each of its 15 catchments, in addition to water discharge rate. Environmental measurements such as precipitation and soil moisture at each catchment's centre are also measured. In-situ flume measurements have been taken at 15-minute intervals continuously since 2012 and are openly available via the NWFP data portal. Such in-situ (proxy) measurements deemed to be most complementary to the laboratory measurements are also provided in the amalgamated dataset, at the 15-minute interval closest to the physical collection of the water for laboratory analysis. Further data and background information are available online, see the related outputs for more information. It is anticipated that this dataset may be used to compare in-situ proxies with laboratory measurements (for example, turbidity and suspended sediment) or for the comparison of in-situ and laboratory measurements of the same analyte. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None so far |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98v27/water-chemistry-of-combined-surface-and-subsurface-ru... |
| Description | Alan Turing Institute |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Work on farm-scale digital twins |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work on farm-scale digital twins |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Aberystwyth University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Duchy College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Harper Adams University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | Scotland's Rural College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | The Roslin Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | University of Newcastle |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CIEL |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CIEL is one of the four UK AgriTech centres with total investment totalling over £80M (Innovate UK) across 12 sites from 2015-2020. The focus of CIEL is to develop industry-led, commercially sustainable innovative research and development capabilities that generate wealth and business competitiveness through increased profitability of the livestock sector and industries that feed into this sector. CIEL provides a focused gateway to a core of 12 world-class research institutes to develop new industry-needed solutions as well as commercial trial farms for real world results with specific areas relating to livestock species (cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry), genetics, nutrition, health and welfare and product quality. Rothamsted Research at its North Wyke site will represent the grazing research centre of excellence in ruminants utilising the facilities of the North Wyke Farm Platform. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIEL is a membership organisation, bringing together leading UK based academic institutions and industry partners who provide strategic direction, projects for development and commercialisation of the research we carry out. It provides a direct link between science and practice to enable broader, faster and deeper innovation uptake in the livestock sectors. |
| Impact | Agri-Tech Innovation Showcase Event, 8 December 2016, Rothamsted Research North Wyke |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with AFBI |
| Organisation | Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Workshop held for joint research interests. Work on modelling & soil carbon |
| Collaborator Contribution | Workshop held for joint research interests. Work on modelling & soil carbon |
| Impact | Soil Carbon work |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with Harper Adams University |
| Organisation | Harper Adams University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Shared digital science expertise and experiences. Student training programmes in prep. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Shared digital science expertise and experiences. Student training programmes in prep. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Bristol University dairy farm at Langford |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We discussed comparison of grass leys versus biomass cropping in intensive arable systems and eventually opted to use the Soil to nutrition modelling framework to model the technically feasible impacts of increased uptake of grass leys in intensive arable systems in the east of England. The results are to be compared versus business-as-usual. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Soil Association contributed to the discussion of scenarios and helped us finalise the framing of those prior to model runs. |
| Impact | The Soil to Nutrition modelling framework has been used to model scenarios of increased uptake of leys and sheep in the intensive cereal systems of eastern England. The outputs compare business-as-usual and the new scenarios in terms of services or dis-services; emissions to water and air, farm economics, production, soil quality, biodiversity, water use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | EJP SOIL |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | EJP SOIL is a European Joint Programme Cofund on Agricultural Soil Management contributing to key societal challenges including climate change, water and future food security. It consists of 26 partners from 24 european countries. The NWFP is part of the consortia and provides access and collaborative studies in its role as a long-term experiment and provision of laboratory facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The objectives of this collaboration are to develop knowledge, tools and an integrated research community to foster climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management that: Allows sustainable food production Sustains soil biodiversity Sustains soil functions that preserves ecosystem services |
| Impact | The programme is in its early days so no clear outcomes as yet. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Ecological Continuity Trust |
| Organisation | British Ecological Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) is a charity that is developing a strategic network of long-term ecological experiments (LTEs) under different habitats in order to safeguard existing high quality experiments and data, and are helping to ensure that new facilities are planned for the long-term.The NWFP has been added to the ECT register of LTEs, of which there are currently 30 active experiments at 27 sites in the United Kingdom. The NWFP is listed as one of the ECT's grassland habitat sites and is using a systems-based approach to study the complete flow of nutrients from soil to food products with a view to understanding and developing sustainable ways of managing lowland grass-based livestock production. Due to its highly instrumented set-up and high detail of data recording, it is a valuable source of knowledge on the ecosystem services provided by this type of landscape. In particular, the NWFP can make comparisons between land that is continually managed as permanent pasture compared with non-permanent pasture systems and is able to provide long-term data-sets on the effects of land management on hydrology, water quality, greenhouse gas emissions, soil quality, animal health, meat quality, and biodiversity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ECT has established a network of key stakeholders that help champion the need to secure long-term experiments and the valuable science they produce so that future generations have the resources needed to manage systems in the face of environmental change. In addition, grants of up to £3000 are available (supported by the British Ecological Society) to help to fund research projects both within and between ECT registered sites, help to cover travel costs associated with communicating scientific findings and to help provide funds for essential maintenance or data curation activities. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Imperial College London |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Student training using NWFP datasets |
| Collaborator Contribution | Student training using NWFP datasets |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Leeds University - Links to the set up of an instrumented farm at the Leeds University Farm |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Helping deployment of sensors and associated data science tools |
| Collaborator Contribution | Future collaborative grant applications are expected |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | PhD Studentship - Annalisa Lanza - Agroecosystems in a Climate Crisis: Using Big Data to understand the Out of the Ordinary |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Lead Supervisor for PhD |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead Supervisor for PhD |
| Impact | None yet - just started |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Royal Agricultural University |
| Organisation | Royal Agricultural University (RAU) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Digital Twin work. Student project work using NWFP datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Digital Twin work. Student project work using NWFP datasets. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | The Donkey Sanctuary |
| Organisation | The Donkey Sanctuary |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Proposal development and sampling sites |
| Collaborator Contribution | Proposal development |
| Impact | Collaborative research |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | University of Southern Queensland |
| Organisation | University of Southern Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Modelling (APSIM) and remote sensing research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Modelling (APSIM) and remote sensing research |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | University of Southern Queensland |
| Organisation | University of Southern Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Modelling (APSIM) and remote sensing research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Modelling (APSIM) and remote sensing research |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | GWmodel |
| Description | Spatial Varying Parameter Models |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 200k downloads |
| URL | https://cran.r-project.org/package=GWmodel |
| Title | GWmodel |
| Description | Varying Parameter Models |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 200k downloads since release |
| Description | APSIM training workshop at Rothamsted - led by Australian delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training workshop in APSIM process-based model over 2/3 days (including participants from Leeds University and ADAS) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Ag Digital Twins - Telecommunications company (Japan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Informal meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Agricultural monitoring platforms - workshop with Hulunber Grassland Station, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plans for follow up workshops and site visits |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Annual Reading University MSc student field trip |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This is part of a field trip including a seminar for MSc students for the MSc Environmental Pollution and MSc Environmental Management at the University of Reading. The remit is for the students to investigate soil chemical, physical and biological 'health' on the soils from the three different treatments on the North Wyke Farm Platform. • Chemical analysis: Soil pH using portable pH probes • Physical analysis: Visual evaluation of soil structure • Biological analysis: Earthworm number, biomass, and species using OPAL guide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CIEL Grasscheck members visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by CIEL members to NWFP and Orr Small Ruminant facility, as well as discussion of Grasscheck project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Devon County Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Devon Country Show attracts over 90,000 visitors over three days. We were invited to display in the Innovation tent alongside members of the Devon Agritech Alliance - highlighting GHG results from the NWFP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins and AI in Agriculture - Alan Turing Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digital Twins and AI in Agriculture - with a livestock focus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins and AI in Agriculture - UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on future collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins at Rothamsted. Agroecology Europe Forum 2023 - Converging Movements for Resilient Farming Systems, Hungary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Harris P (2023) Digital Twins at Rothamsted. Agroecology Europe Forum 2023 - Converging Movements for Resilient Farming Systems, Hungary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins in Agriculture - CSIRO, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Small group meeting with CSIRO Deputy Director |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins in Agriculture - Colorado State University visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digital Twins in Agriculture - presentation to delegation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins in Agriculture - New Zealand Government Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work at Rothamsted to delegation from New Zealand |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Digital Twins in Agriculture - Royal Agriculture University 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on co-development of digital twin grants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Environment Agency visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Tour of NWFP and discussion of research activities and findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Farmers Weekly Farming Transition Event entitled 'Discover how working with soil nutrients and natural capital can benefit your farm business and the environment' (25/01/2024) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Event run by Farmers Weekly that includes talks by RRES staff and a tour of the NWFP facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Geospatial Digital Twins in Agriculture with Slovenia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Links to Digital Twin with Slovenian group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Joint workshop with Hestia and RRes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Data sharing exercise. Work on shared ontologies. LCA work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.hestia.earth/ |
| Description | Meeting with Dr Josh Hodge, Imperial College & Prof Danny Williamson, Exeter University - Dec 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To discuss student access and use of Farm Platform data as a component of teaching at graduate and post graduate level |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Natural England SW Area team visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit by members of the SW Natural England Area team for tour of NWFP and discussion of research activities and findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Nemotodes for Isles of Scilly (with University of Plymouth) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Initial dialogues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Research Insight Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Research Insight Event - showcasing NW research and capabilities associated to the topic of fertilisers and organic inputs, their environmental impacts and opportunities to mitigate these. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SW Agricultural Immersion Centre Group meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of partners within the SW Agricultural Immersion centre - including a tour of the NWFP and discussion of its capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Dairy Science Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting for the Dairy Science Forum to discuss our grazing and grassland research, including outputs form the Farm Platform. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Sheep Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by the Sheep Group to the Orr Small Ruminant Facility |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UK NABES network group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Network led by Rothamsted on Statistical Research in Agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | University of the West of Scotland ALMADA Lab - Drones for biodiversity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | University of the West of Scotland ALMADA Lab Drones for biodiversity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Velcourt Dairy Farm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit by members of the SW Velcourt Dairy team - tour of NWFP and discussion of research activities and findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit by Bradworthy YFC, Tadcaster YFC and Wetherby YFC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to North Wyke for a tour of the North Wyke Farm Platform by a local YFC group and 2 other exchange YFC groups from West Yorkshire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit by Environment Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to North Wyke for a tour of the North Wyke Farm Platform and discussion of research activities and findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit by Exeter University as part of joint workshop on the Digital Twin. Included representation from UCL, Imperial and Nottingham Trent Universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tour of North Wyke Farm Platform as part of a joint workshop on the Digital Twin developement between RRES and Exeter University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit by Jonathan Holland (AFBI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to North Wyke for a tour of the North Wyke Farm Platform and discussion of research activities and findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit by Rothamsted Research Data Science Group (Harpenden based) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tour of the North Wyke Farm Platform and discussion of research activities and data generation/management as part of a visit by Chris Baker, Richard Ostler and Ammar Siddiqui with a view to development of the Farm Platform Digital Twin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit to University of Lincoln |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Innovations in AI and robotics for agriculture. Collaborations on grant proposals between RRes and UoL |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |