The AFCP National Forum - Growing: Young Minds and New Ideas took place on 15 November 2021; thank you to our speakers and staff at the Agri-Tech Centre at Hartpury, for an excellent day. We heard interesting presentations on the exciting and innovative topic of Vertical Farming, and were impressed by the breadth of activities from LEAF-Education and Social Farms and Gardens on how to engage young people in food, farming and the environment. We hope that presentations from the event will be available here shortly.

This event took place as a hybrid event on 16 June 2021. AFCP would like to especially thank the University of Hertfordshire and the staff involved for their support in the organisation of this event 

The presentations feature work funded by charities and others and provide an opportunity to learn about current developments in disease and pest management. 

See here for a pdf of the Conference proceedings. A report on the event for 'Outlooks on Pest Management' is also available here.

A recording of this event is available here.

Posters highlighting some of the extensive research area on this topic are available here.

October 2020: AFCP held two Zoom meetings focusing on two of the AFCP/AHDB projects:

Soil Health and Dairy/Beef Health projects-further details and links to the presentations.

Further updates of their research which can be accessed through the links below:

• Soil health: (University of Cambridge) and a You Tube introduction to this topic available here
   
• Dairy/Beef health: (University of Nottingham)
   
• Oilseed rape pest control: (Harper Adams University) Poster Update - December 2020