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NFAN will be attending thefollowing events:

Stoneleigh Park Exhibition Centre, Nr Coventry, CV8 2LZ

16th & 17th March 2010

10am-5pm

www.inpas.co.uk

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Back for it’s eleventh successive year, Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2010 is taking place 24-30 January 2010. The campaign demonstrates to everyone that breakfast is the meal you can’t afford to miss, with the new theme ‘Breakfast Benefits’. The campaign showcases the most important meal of the day and raises awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating a healthy breakfast as part of a balanced diet and active lifestyle. Farmhouse Breakfast Week also provides a perfect opportunity to promote the wealth of wonderful breakfast produce available around the country. From butchers style bacon and sausages to speciality breads and cereals, there is a fantastic choice to benefit the start of your day.

There are hundreds of breakfast events planned across the UK to celebrate the most important meal of the day. Please visit the campaign’s website for further information how you can get involved www.farmhousebreakfast.com and to order all your event resources. Recipe booklets, ideal for giveaways and event posters and stickers.

New for 2010 is a photography competition to find the best breakfast views enjoyed across the country. Send us your best breakfast view – including breakfast, of course, to be in with the chance to win kitchenware. It could be a favourite breakfast in the garden, a tasty breakfast on holiday, or even somewhere more unusual. For further information and to download an entry form visit www.farmhousebreakfast.com. The six shortlisted entries will be uploaded to the Farmhouse Breakfast Week website, and visitors asked to vote for their favourite picture. Closing date is the 4th December 2009.

Also, for all the latest campaign information follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/breakfastweek and join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/farmhousebreakfast.

Emily Gudgeon

Marketing Executive

Direct Line: 024 7647 8735

Mobile: 07590 183 540

HGCA

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Stoneleigh Park

Kenilworth

Warwickshire

CV8 2TL

Main Switchboard: 024 7669 2051

Fax: 024 7647 8904

Farmhouse Breakfast Week 24-30 January 2010

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Countryside Educational Visits Accreditation Scheme

CEVAS

If you would like to book one of the courses for more information visit www.face-online.org.uk/cevas

Click here for the Venues and dates available.

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Warwickshire Rural Hub

Forthcoming events from Warwickshire Rural Hub as follows:

Date

Event/Workshop

Location

4th March 2010

10.30am – 3.30pm

Lighter Soils & Subsoiling In The Spring

Practical on-farm workshop looking at the structure of lighter soils, how to manage it effectively & how to get a bigger yield. Subsoiling on lighter soils – should it be subsoiled? , when to subsoil, how to subsoil.

Thelsford Farm, Charlecote,

Warwick, Warwickshire,

CV35 9EJ

22nd March 2010

Evening

6.30 – 9.30pm

An evening presentation by Alastair Leake with a practical guide to the Allerton Project at Loddington. The project aims are to research the effects of farming on wildlife and the environment. For both agricultural and environmental reasons, the need for informed management of the natural resources available to the farm is paramount. The evening will cover soil management and water quality; looking at erosion in tramlines, the effects of different tillage practices and the results of the Soil and Water Project.

The Council Chamber, Arthur Rank Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, CV8 2LG

26th March 2010

9.00am – 12.30pm

Tyres, Traction and Soil Compaction – a talk and practical workshop presented by Bill Basford

Home Farm, Hatton, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35 7LU

March 2010

10.00am – 3.30pm

Exact date to be confirmed shortly

Potato Planting & the Soil

An on-farm practical event held by a potato expert and agronomist on how to grow the best potatoes possible and how to get the soil in the correct condition to do this.

Venue address to be confirmed shortly

Rugby, Warwickshire

1st April 2010

10.30am – 3.30pm

Soil Type Practical & The Soil Protection Plan Review

At the request of the soils Group we are having a workshop to help you identify the type of soils you have. You will be able to bring along soil samples from your own farm and learn how to classify them.

This will be followed by an in-depth look at the Soil Protection Plan Review and what information is required to complete it correctly.

The Council Chamber, Arthur Rank Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, CV8 2LG

7th April 2010

10.00am – 3.30pm

Problem Fields Event

At the request of Soils group members we will have an event looking at specific problem fields and discussing what the problems are and how to rectify them.

* If you have a field that you would like us to visit please contact us at the Hub office.

*Various Farms in Warwickshire

Soils Group Competition

Further to a discussion at a previous soils event we will go ahead with arranging a Soils Group competition. The Soils Group will divide into subgroups and have a competition on how they would cultivate the soil etc, put it into practice and then see which group has the best yield.

This will be discussed further at forthcoming soils events.

Warwickshire

To book your place at any of the soils events please contact

jennyg@rase.org.uk or telephone 02476 858244

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