Crops and 
 Operations 

A small team manage over 450 hectares of land here at Harper Adams University, the Crops and Operations sector is a busy one.

The Crops and Ops team are responsible for:

• Producing crops and feeding them to the animal enterprises on Future Farm, the team currently produces grass silage, maize silage, and combinable crops such as Wheat and Barley.
• Animal by-product management and the day-to-day running of the non-animal-based farm jobs which are essential in the operation of Future Farm.

The sector looks to provide relevant commercial cropping examples for student teaching, whilst considering different land management or cropping ideas that have not been adopted by commercial farmers yet.

The Crops and Ops sector are passionate in joining the discussions held by the environmental sustainability (ES) groups, to collaborate ideas, such as adopting more regenerative farming techniques, to help achieve the goal of Future Farm reaching net-zero by 2030.

For more information on the groups the Crops and Ops sector collaborate with, press the tabs below:

• ES Farm Land and Soil group
• ES Farm Energy and Water group
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