Alternative crops, diversifying your farm business

Incorporating different and perhaps more unusual crops into your farming system can help increase the overall resilience of your farm business. We explore some options; management challenges, potential benefits and practical considerations.

June 2021

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Novel vegetables: Observations on growing a range of tropical crops

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Field Beans and Lupins

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Alternative crops, diversifying your farm business

Content related to Alternative crops, diversifying your farm business

Marketing a genetically diverse wheat: YQ in the UK

Silage sorghum, an alternative to silage maize

Novel vegetables: Observations on growing a range of tropical crops

Field Beans and Lupins