IFM: A Framework for the Future9.30am to 4.30pm, Thursday 19th May 2016

Where: The Dairy, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0JW

The world’s food systems are facing unprecedented challenges and the need to produce more food, sustainably has never been more evident. Integrated Farm Management offers the framework to deliver a sustainable food system. In order to do this, however, the practices and developments within IFM must continue to evolve and improve. This one-day conference will examine the development of IFM, consider its strengths (as well as weaknesses) and crucially, as LEAF embarks on its next 25 years, its role in addressing future challenges.

Speakers from our LEAF Innovation Centres will provide a taster of the innovative areas of research and development within each section of IFM. Following this, we will hear from LEAF Demonstration Farmers who are working with IFM at the sharp end, to tell us how some of these innovations are working in practice.

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Programme

09.30: Arrival and coffee

10.00: Welcome and Introduction to Integrated Farm Management - Caroline Drummond Caroline is the LEAF Chief Executive and has pioneered LEAF as an organisation for the last 25 years.

Caroline will explain the role and ambitions of LEAF within the industry and the development of Integrated Farm Management.

10.10: Driving Integrated Farm Management Forward Through Science Into Practice - Alice Midmer Alice is LEAF’s IFM Manager and will give an overview of the role of LEAF in driving IFM forward and

the part played by LEAF Demonstration Farmers and LEAF Innovation Centres.

10.30: Innovative IFM Research In this session we will hear from speakers at LEAF’s eight Innovation Centres. LEAF Innovation

Centres are research organisations whose work supports the research, evidence, development and promotion of Integrated Farm Management. Each speaker will talk about the state-of-the-art research occurring within a section of IFM at their institute.

Organisation and Planning - Kathryn Mitchell, LEAF Crop Health and Protection - Julian Davies, Stockbridge Technology Centre Landscape and Nature Conservation - Dr. Alastair Leake, The Allerton Project

11.15: Coffee

11.45: Innovative IFM Research Continued Animal Husbandry - Prof. Dave Roberts, SRUC Pollution Control and By Product Management - Andy Blant, Bayer CropScience Water Management - Robert Orr, Rothamsted Research North Wyke Soil Management and Fertility - Prof. Geoff Squire, The James Hutton Institute Community Engagement - Dr Nicola Cannon, The Royal Agricultural University Crop Health and Protection - Dr Martin Hare, Harper Adams University

13.15: Lunch

14.15: Integrated Farm Management in Practice In this session we will hear from LEAF Demonstration Farmers using IFM at the sharp end. Using IFM

as a framework they are able to adopt the latest innovations and constantly drive their businesses to be better. LEAF Demonstration Farms are crucial to LEAF’s work in order to push forward the boundaries of IFM and demonstrate this to a variety of different audiences.

Richard Kooijman, Eric Wall Ltd., West Sussex Chris Baylis, Sir Richard Sutton Ltd., Lincolnshire John Renner, Renner Farming, Northumberland

15.30: Panel Discussion

16.00: Closing Remarks - Caroline Drummond, LEAF

Tea and Close

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