The Association of Applied Biology Meeting on "Regenerative Agriculture – Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges", York on 25–26 th April 2023

Abstract

The programme was arranged in five sessions with an additional poster display. The first session was concerned with Soils and Fertilisers as an important aspect of regenerative agriculture practices was to restore and protect soil health. In the UK, most farms are either arable with emphasis on cereal crops, while others are devoted to livestock, so the first presentation was from Lizzie Sagoo (ADAS.) who considered the Impacts, benefits and trade-offs of adopting Mob grazing, in which large numbers of animals graze a small area of land for a short period. A DEFRA-funded project had conducted a survey to examine the environmental and productivity of mob grazing systems. A Rapid Evidence assessment obtained limited evidence that mob grazing was any more effective than conventional rotational grazing systems in increasing soil carbon.