- The role of precision technology in sustainable food production is the central theme at this year’s Agri-EPI Centre conference
- The event will take place at Shimpling Farm Park on Thursday 27 October courtesy of John Pawsey, with whom Agri-EPI works to test innovative agricultural technology
Fabia Bromovsky, global farm metric director at the Sustainable Food Trust will give the keynote speech, and journalist Anna Jones will chair farmer panel sessions including John Pawsey, Ian Beecher-Jones, Sophie Alexander and Jo Franklin – also part of Agri-EPI’s farmer network – who will discuss what sustainable farming means to them.
The conference will bring together key stakeholders from across the agriculture sector, offering an opportunity for farmers, agri-tech experts and academics to connect, network and discuss the path to sustainability in farming and the role of precision technology in delivering food security.
The sessions will be followed by a farm walk led by John Pawsey.
Fabia Bromovsky, global farm metric director at the Sustainable Food Trust said: “If farmers are being tasked to deliver this sustainable future, we need a common language so that they can understand what this means for them and measure their impacts, not just their practices, monitor and manage their progress during transition and be rewarded for the food and public goods that they deliver for us all.”
John Pawsey, Shimpling Park Farm manager said, “The people coming to this conference are looking for the best new technology and swapping ideas with others who have a similar appetite for increasing productivity on farms through technological innovation.
“Agri-EPI Centre has provided me with a constant positive introduction to new technology. We’ve said yes to everything that has come along and it has pushed us in all sorts of new directions, which is terribly exciting. I consider myself tech-savvy, but it is also almost intuitive to my kids; for example, my 22-year-old son, Rufus, is running our Skippy Scout project to monitor crop trials on the farm. These introductions are key to bringing more rigour to the trials we are doing on the farm.”
