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SEAMS: Legacy and Outcomes

May 17, 2023 • LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming)

In this episode, we discussed SEAMS (Sustainability in Education and Agriculture using Mixtures), a four-year project funded by the Esme Fairbairn Foundation and coordinated by the James Hutton Institute, as the project draws to a close. The project focused on crop mixtures and aimed to develop, promote and implement crop species mixtures as a sustainable crop production system for Scotland and as a resource for knowledge exchange on food production, agricultural ecology and environmental sustainability. We were joined by the project lead of SEAMS, Rob Brooker from the James Hutton Institute and Thomas Veitch from Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture, who was involved in running trials as part of the project. In this discussion, Rob and Thomas reflected on the project's outcomes and legacy and looked at the next steps for crop mixtures within sustainable crop production systems.

The data platform mentioned in the podcast is already available here, but will be officially launched at this year’s Arable Scotland in July

For more information on the SEAMS project please visit:
https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/projects/seams-sustainability-education-and-agriculture-using-mixtures

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