Welcome to the
Future Farm zone

Not many universities have their own commercial farm on campus. But here at Harper Adams University, staff and students are able to learn ‘in the field’ at the Future Farm.

The Future Farm has been created to allow Harper Adams University to have unified strategic aims for it's research and teaching. With the amalgamation of the Farm, APAS, Crop and Environment Research Centre (CERC), and the Smart Dairy, the Future Farm now sees each of these units form one team.

Want to know more about the farm and the indiviual sectors? Feel free to contact some of the team behind Future Farm.

Our Purpose

Support teaching
Support research
Increase knowledge transfer
Widen participation in the industry

Strategic aims

Be a sustainable farm enterprise that must be:
- ecologically sound
- economically viable
- socially responsible
We have a key role in developing sustainable land use to:
- meet the objectives of feeding the population
- sequestrate more carbon than we emit
- improve soil health
- improve water quality
- increase biodiversity
- improve animal health and welfare

Net-Zero by 2030

We, as part of Harper Adams University, have set ourselves the aim of being net-zero for scope 1 and 2 carbon by 2030. A bold aim but one we feel is important and we want to share our story along the way!

In 2022 four Environmental Sustainability (ES) groups were formed to help reach this goal, click on them for more information:

The latest Future Farm conference saw the launch of the Future Farm strategy; the detailed document emphasises how the farm will work towards our goal of net-zero by 2030 and the key performance indicators that have been set for each sector. To read the document, click on the link below: