Field labs & farmer

innovationTom MacMillan

$18 bn

BusinessPublic

$31 bn

= £12 billion per year

Includes:Machinery,Pesticides,SeedsBreeding and Processing industries…

…but not farming

GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL R&D

Image: Crops for the Future

Fischer & Edmeades (2010)

DUCHY ORIGINALS FUTURE FARMING PROGRAMME

Field labs

80%of farmers CCRI

surveyed will

“definitely keep

attending”

28topics

650 farmers

“from

advice

takers to

advice

makers”

Woodchip case study

Farmer-led

Funding

£16Kaverage grant

Where next?

Innovation

clubs

Thank you! Please get in touch to find out more:

Tom MacMillan, Soil Association

tmacmillan@soilassociation.org

www.soilassociation.org/fieldlabs

Background explained in article in Nature Issue 509, May 2014