Dominic Amos
Crops Researcher
I have a background in on farm arable field trials, having looked for a career combining chemistry, biology, and love of the outdoors.
Travelling after university and volunteering on many farms opened my eyes to a career in food and farming.
Concern for the environment and a growing interest in ecological farming methods has brought me to The Organic Research Centre as a crops researcher, looking at sustainable crop production, trying to help farmers improve practice in finding ecological and sustainable solutions to production challenges.
I work across a number of areas including Sustainable crop production, cover cropping, crop rotation diversity, tillage systems and soils.
Author contributions
The End is Nigh, The End of Nitrogen
Footage of a discussion held at Groundswell 2022, organised by Agricology, about the impacts of reduced nitrogen use and ways in which farmers are moving away from high input systems.
Living mulches for sustainable cropping systems: A step towards ‘Regenerative Organic’ Agriculture in the UK?
Reducing tillage and chemical inputs can be beneficial for soil and the environment, so could a permanent clover understorey acting as a 'living mulch', moving towards a perennial soil cover, offer a practical solution to reducing inputs and having more sustainable cropping systems?
Potato blight – is the answer beneath the covers?
Dominic Amos describes how a group of growers have come together through the Innovative Farmers network to look at ways of combating potato blight using novel techniques.
Compost tea – a good brew?
Dominic Amos from the Organic Research Centre asks if compost tea be used as an effective way to enhance soil microbiology in organic arable systems.