Event
Growing and processing intercrops – a LEGUMINOSE event
Join Innovative Farmers for a session on intercropping, focusing on this year’s LEGUMINOSE project trial results and options for processing and separating.
Join Innovative Farmers at Alvan Blanch Factory in Malmsbury to hear from farmers and processors about growing legume/cereal intercrops and the opportunities and barriers to and processing them. This event is part of the LEGUMINOSE intercropping project. We’ll hear from one of the UK farmer field lab triallists about his experiences during the intercrop trial this year, and find out how the intercrops fared across the trial sites. We’ll also hear from Josiah Meldrum from Hodmedods about potential markets for intercrops, and our hosts Alvan Blanch will take you on a tour of the factory.
Alvan Blanch manufacture a range of grain processing equipment which are a solution to one of the perceived barriers for intercropping, that of separating or processing the intercrops for use on farms and beyond.
Josiah Meldrum is a co founder of Hodmedods, a company which supplies beans and other products from British farms.
Dougal Hosford is a LEGUMINOSE triallist. He farms in North Dorset where he grows 600ha of arable crops, and has 60 Angus and Hereford suckler cows utilising permanent pasture and herbal leys. Arable inputs are slowly being reduced and 2023 has seen the introduction of milling wheat for Wildfarmed including a bi-crop of spring wheat and beans.
Agenda:
- 11am: Arrive, tea, coffee
- 11.15: Welcome, intros
- 11.30: Review of the intercropping trial and a look at the results
- 12.00: A farmer’s experience of intercropping
- 12.30: Potential markets for intercrops
- 1.00: Lunch
- 1.45: Discussion groups
- 2.15: Tour of the factory and Q&A
- 3.00: Wrap up
