More than 500 growers from all over East Anglia have gathered on the farmers field to gather valuable information that could help optimize their crop decisions and increase their profits.

Frontier Agriculture, the UK’s largest grain agronomy and marketing company, hosted the two-day 3D Thinking open-air event in Walsham-le-Willows.

Experts told visitors about new varieties of winter wheat, barley and oilseed rape and presented a forecast regarding changes in the product market. Wheat production is expected to recover this year after last year’s difficult growing season.

Farmers visited many sites to evaluate which wheat gave the best balance between yield and grinding quality for making bread or cookies, which barley was least susceptible to mold or yellow rust, or which varieties of oilseed rape gave the best vegetable oil, etc.

The event also provided an opportunity for farmers to keep abreast of the latest models of machinery and precise technologies for growing crops, including mapping nutrients in the soil and using satellite imagery to determine biomass variations across the field.