Links to presentations from two workshops held by IOTA in June 2010:

Legume LINK* advisers workshop: Legume Research and Practice,
Tuesday 8th June 2010 (venue: Stephen and Lynn Briggs’ Whitehall Farm, Peterborough)

*Legume LINK is a major new project using legume-based mixtures to enhance the nitrogen use efficiency and economic viability of cropping systems. Funded by Defra and managed by ORC.

Thomas Doring: LegLINK: Introduction
Anton Rosenfeld: Using novel legumes on farm trials
IOTA PACARes: Characteristics of main herbage legume species used in UK agriculture
IOTA: Legume Research and Management
Dr Bruce Knight: Rhizobium inoculants for forage crops
Garden Organic: Using novel legumes for building soil fertility Whitehall Farm, Farcet Cambridgeshire: a case study

PLink* Workshop: Cambridgeshire: The Management of Phosphate in Organic Farming, Wednesday 9th June 2010 (venue: Stephen and Lynn Briggs’ Whitehall Farm, Peterborough)

*PLink is a 5 year Defra funded Link project, managed by SAC, recently completed and including composting and green manure trials undertaken on farms in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Scotland and Lincolnshire.

IOTA: Phosphate supply and management
Johnny Johnston: Phosphorus in soils and crop nutrition
Christine Watson: Role and management of phosphate in organic farming
Christine Watson and the PLink team: Using crops to manipulate phosphate – what have we learnt from PLINK?
Mark Measures: Composting with rock phosphate: increasing plant-available P
Johnny Johnston and J. Keith Syers: A New Approach to Assessing Phosphorus Use Efficiency in Agriculture