ADAS is leading a new industry initiative aimed at reinvigorating research and interest in raising yields, including a competition forthe record UK wheat yield for the 2012-13 crop. The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) is a newly created group of farming organisations aimed at developing a knowledge exchange programme and working with farmers to improve yields. ADAS principal scientistRoger Sylvester Bradley believes it will foster and energise innovation in the arable industry. "We need to understand how bigger yields can be produced."
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