Harper Adams to become a UK centre for study of peat farming
A share of a £5 million UK Government fund aimed at solving challenges with lowland peat is to make Harper Adams University the first UK centre for the study of peat farming.
The funding was announced by DEFRA for a series of projects aimed at improving lowland peat and tackling carbon emissions and includes a proposal from Harper Adams to launch the Paludiculture Innovation Project (PIP).
Adeney Yard, a field on the Harper Adams University estate, will be rewet and used to grow crops and assess the impact of rewetting peatland.
A cross-disciplinary team from Harper Adams will assess the work undertaken, its impact and effects to try to start building more information about paludiculture, the science behind crop production on wet peat, and the best ways to grow and harvest crops using these new approaches.
