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The Soil Association Scotland is teaming up with the James Hutton Institute on a field lab, part of a Europe-wide project, to trial crop mixtures or ‘plant teams’. They want to test the potential that inter-cropping peas and beans, for example, has to improve Scottish soils, yield stability, and resilience as well as to suppress pests and diseases. Come hear from experts Ali Karley (The James Hutton Institute) and Robin Walker (SRUC) to find out which crops might work best together on your farm. They’ll also visit Durie Farms, where Doug Christie has been successfully growing plant teams for many years, to see what equipment he uses for separating crops. Free lunch and hot refreshments provided. Free to farmers and land managers. Booking is required. Funding for this activity is made available through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the European Union), with partner funding from Quality Meat Scotland, Forestry Commission Scotland, Innovative Farmers and The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.