AGM CONFERENCE 2019

Posted March, 6th, 2019

The AGM Conference was held on 5th and 6th February 2019 at The Haycock Hotel near Peterborough. Over the 2 days we were joined by more than half our members as well as other guests and were able to welcome several new BASE-UK members to the event. We hope you enjoy the attached recordings and where possible, presentation slides have also been provided.

Day 1:
Audrey Litterick – Maintaining And Enhancing Soil Health,The Importance Of A Multi Point Approach.


Simon Cowell – Winner of Soil Farmer of the Year 2018


Angus Gowthorpe – Runner up of SFY 2018


Gary Markham – Land Family Business – Bench-marking – Is No-Till the Brexit Answer?


Interactive panel with the speakers from today.

Day 2:

Jackie Stroud – The earthworm and its importance for UK agriculture. I will be sharing the latest findings and what this means from the national #30minworms farmland earthworm surveys.

If you require a copy of Jackie’s PowerPoint presentation, please contact Rebecca. The file is very large!

Tom Storr – Cover crops in a cereal and salad rotation.


Andy Barr – Mistakes Were Made – the slow evolution of a lower tillage, higher diversity, system in mid Kent.


Interactive Panel Session with all the speakers of the day.