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West Central iFarm Results Meeting

Date: 27th Feb 2026
Location: Towcester Rugby Club
Time:
10.30am and finish with a hot lunch at 12.30/13.00

 

Speakers include:

Vicky Robinson - Head of Sustainability at the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC)

+ Guest Speaker

Representing UK agriculture and making sure it has a voice, Vicky will be discussing: Farming in challenging economic times, Food security, re-integration with European regulations, return of SFI and the Environment act.
Vicky is the Head of Sustainability at the AIC, having previously been technical director at LEAF and prior to that spent many years working for Natural Englandfocusing on agri-environment schemes providing technical expertise to DEFRA.

Vicky is a Trustee of the Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust, on the steering group of Agricology and two local farmer clusters and continues her Nuffield connection as the Central Region Chair. She has recently been appointed a Director of the Oxford Farming Conference.

 

Jamie Lyttle - Agronomist

+ Integrated strategies for longer term blackgrass control

Jamie will be presenting and discussing the 2025 results from the Tusmore Blackgrass trials and also giving us an update on his current work explaining what we have in the ground this year and how the use of seed rates can help blackgrass suppression.

 

Jodie Littleford – Combinable Crops Technical Manager

+ A new generation of bio-stimulants and plant health

With a whole new generation of bio-stimulants in the marketplace and with more being developed, these products can work alongside fungicides to support crops, boost health and bolster disease control. Jodie will explain more about these developments and trials results.

 

Ben Foster - RHIZA Technical Manager

+ Transition from Gatekeeper to TCM (Telus Crop Management)

Following the purchase of both Gatekeeper and Greenlight field management systems, Telus the new owner is in the process of launching a new and improved software platform that is fit for the digital future. Ben will explain the transition process and expand on the benefits that this will bring to both farmer and agronomist alike.