Yield Enhancement Network (YEN)
Sharing to learn how to enhance crop yields
Yields across the UK have stabilised over the past 30 years. With conditions taken into account, average yields remain below calculated potential yields.
Founded in 2012, the Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) is an independent, industry-wide effort to improve crop yields. YEN’s action-learning approach to identify, encourage and support arable innovators on farms. It has produced new networks that address specific crop-performance issues and keep food security, nutritional quality and sustainability in focus.
YEN acts as an interconnector between farming and science. YEN members can share quantitative field-specific data such as grain yield or soil health. That information can be compared against other network members and analysed to identify enhancement opportunities.
This has now expanded to include networks for oilseed, bean, and pea. With YEN Zero, we can also have a network looking into crop carbon analysis and benchmarking. YEN networks operate in multiple countries including UK, Canada, and Sweden.
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What does the YEN involve?
The YEN estimates yield potentials and yield gaps for any crop. At the annual YEN awards held after harvest, our crop physiologists identify the highest crop yields grown that year.
Through analysis, ADAS crop physiologists can identify yield restrictions and how efficiently plants absorbed light, water and nutrients. By learning how to best address these restrictions, growers may be able to improve yields year on year.
We encourage and support farmer led research to find innovative ideas that may enhance crop yields.
YEN member benefits
The YEN now has hundreds of farming members and is open to new members every year. To learn more about joining a network, see the network webpages on the YEN website.
YEN membership includes:
- Comprehensive personal report on your natural resources, crop growth and any yield constraints
- Free soil health check and free grain analysis for cereal and oilseed members.
- Technical sessions with leading crop experts along with newsletters, monthly actions and networking sessions
Sponsorship
Each network is funded by multiple corporate sponsors and they are vital in supporting core activities. There are a number of benefits to being a YEN sponsor and intelligence collected through YEN can help their own yield enhancement initiatives.
Sponsorship opportunities