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Lamport AgX 2022

Lamport AgX 2022

Lamport AgX demonstrates innovative, practicable, profitable solutions using everyday commercial farm equipment. The actions and results are there to be seen, scrutinised and challenged, whether its grassweeds, soil health benefits or both.

X marks the spot

Lamport AgX our showpiece trial site is located in West Northamptonshire. Approximately 8 miles south of Market Harborough and 8 miles north of Northampton.

eXploration

Lamport AgX has evolved from being a site demonstrating crop rotations, cultivations and innovative use of crops to help with blackgrass control and enable the field to remain in production, to become something much bigger.

Lamport AgX is now a major resource looking at many aspects of soil health comparing different levels, types and depths of cultivations, use of covercrops, their make-up, establishment methods and time destruction, both for demonstration, but also as fully replicated trials as part of a PhD study.

There are also several other projects on the site which if successful could also have positive soil health and enviromental benefits, eg. looking at reducing prilled nitrogen inputs, and supplying part of the nitrogen requirement from a more targeted and efficient source in conjunction with endophyte treatments.

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Getting back into first wheats

2022 - Lamport AgX - Results

Bi-cropping to maximise winter oat production at least cost per tonne
Going forward comparing disc against tine in a direct drilling situation
Establishment of cover crops
Comparison of blown in and direct drilled cover crops
Establishing cover crops into standing wheat crop pre harvest
Establishing a clover mulch with winter wheat, cutting back on inputs
Alternating between spring and winter wheat

People at Lamport

Talk at Lamport

2022 - Lamport AgX open days

Spring cover crop - 2022
Spring wheat following a long run of cash crops with autumn cover
Spring wheat grown in a more conventional farming system
Spring beans autumn cover - following long run of no cover
Winter oats following run of cover crops
Could we come back into winter wheat after spring wheat?

Staff member at Lamport

Demo at Lamport