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CropTec 2024 Conference programme

Visiting CropTec gives you an exclusive opportunity to gain valuable insights from esteemed experts. Industry leaders, government bodies and farmers bring their extensive knowledge and experience in arable farming to our conferences and workshops, providing practical advice and invaluable expertise. 

You’ll leave the event with actionable advice to both improve your farm and also prepare for the future. 

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Day One

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Innovation

Sponsored by HORSCH

HORSCH

    • Innovation
    The Innovation Theatre

    Award-winning arable farmers and growers come together to share:

    • Innovations they applied on farms to increase productivity and yield
    • challenges and lessons learnt
    • wins and success stories
    • Innovation
    The Innovation Theatre
    What is gene-editing and how will it benefit arable farming?
Knowledge

 

 

    • Knowledge
    The Knowledge Theatre
    • NFU priorities and objectives
    • Working with a new Labour government
    • Coming together to support UK farmers and growers
    • Knowledge
    The Knowledge Theatre
    • Launch of 2025 Descriptive List for peas and beans
    • Crop protection - opportunities and challenges
    • Considerations for harvest 2025 wheat – what will our plan look like?
    • Knowledge
    The Knowledge Theatre

    Speakers and industry experts share their insights into different farming practices and innovations from around the world and discuss how they can benefit UK agriculture.

    • Black soldier fly farming around the world, David Tavernor
    • 11 months, 1 industry, 6 continents, Wallace Currie
    • Working with large volumes of farming data in Argentina, Felipe Harrison
Profit

 

 

    • Profit
    The Profit Theatre
    • Farming for the Future, DEFRA
    • Assessing the impact of the SFI on farm businesses, AHDB
    • SFI for underwriting positive farm business decisions, Ben Taylor-Davies, Townsend Farm, Ross-on-Wye
    • Profit
    The Profit Theatre
    • Under 30s panel on Entering Food and Farming
    • Surveying future skills and traning needs for tech and innovation
    • Farming Community Network Panel - Assessing well-being impact of Harvest '24 and how to prepare for the future

Day Two

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Innovation

Sponsored by HORSCH

HORSCH

    • Innovation
    The Innovation Theatre
    • Collaborative R&D and new technologies to support the change to more sustainable crop production
    • Biologicals Benefits for Broadacre
    • Hybrid Systems - CEA Doesn't Have To Be Standalone
    • Innovation
    The Innovation Theatre

    An interactive session exploring advanced simulation technologies such as co-simulation and GPU accelerated solvers

Knowledge

 

 

    • Knowledge
    The Knowledge Theatre
    • Discovering the TRUTH about soil, BOFIN
    • My transition from conventional broad acre farming to mixed farming ten years in... Tim May, Kingsclere Estate
    • The weatherproof farm, Niels Corfield
    • Knowledge
    The Knowledge Theatre
    • Practices for Water Protection and Resilience
    • Connecting farming and water efficiency
Profit

 

 

    • Profit
    The Profit Theatre
    • Finance in a changing agricultural world, Adam White, Head of Barclays Agriculture
    • Tax planning on new machinery and kit, Ben Allman, Partner, Ballards
    • Assessing the impact of the autumn budget, Jeremy Moody, CAAV
    • Profit
    The Profit Theatre
    • What's driving grain prices? Helen Plant, AHDB
    • Fertiliser markets and forward planning , Finley Hawkins, Frontier Agriculture
    • What does a Trump presidency mean for global grains trade? Rupert Somerscales, Agri-Analytics

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