Oxford Real Farming Conference: How large arable businesses have facilitated nature-friendly farming

The Oxford Real Farming Conference took a deep dive into real-time biological and regenerative practices, and how they can be facilitated at a commercial scale

Head of Arable

31 January 2024 鈥� 6 min read

Farming just north of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, Tim Parton has farmed biologically for 14 years on his 300-hectare arable farm. During the transition, Mr Parton removed all use of fungicides,...

How one Cheshire farmer is using mixed farming to get on top of grass-weeds

For Cheshire farmer Mike Jones, tackling grass-weeds has not come from one silver bullet solution. Instead, it has been the result of building a more flexible mixed farming system where livestock, forage crops, cultivation strategy and innovative new chemistry all work together

Alice Dyer

01 August 2026 鈥� 6 min read