Allerton Project Research Blog

The crop drill has been busy here at Loddington, with farmers across the country relieved to experience a ‘normal’ autumn drilling season for the first time since 2018 – or at least a ten day window into which frenzied work has been committed!

Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research, reports from Brussels where he has been learning from a range of EU partners about the latest developments in results-based payments for biodiversity.

A dozen farmers recently met at Loddington as part of our Soil Biology and Soil Health project with AHDB, led by Elizabeth Stockdale at NIAB.

Chris Stoate provides an update on our research looking at the agricultural benefits of cover crops.

The Allerton Project has a played a major role in Defra's Sustainable Intensification research Platform (SIP) over the past three years as one of the five research and demonstration farms in the SIP network. The wider SIP consortium has involved around thirty partners, and last week, most attended a three day conference to present results, share lessons learnt, and discuss options for the future.

We respond to a recent article on the decline in farmland bird numbers by highlighting the positive action taken by individual farmers.

Chris Stoate discusses the collaborative work of a group of farmers in Welland.

Help create an important record of the voluntary environmental management carried out on farms across England.

Chris Stoate discusses the impact of climate change and extreme weather events.