University Farm (Nottinghamshire)
University Farm is a 445 hectare (4 km²) commercial research farm attached to the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham, England. It lies across the parishes of Sutton Bonington and Kingston on Soar. There are two further blocks of land in Clifton on the north bank of the River Trent and at Bunny Park in the village of Bunny. Both these block are several miles from the main campus.
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[edit] Facilities
The farm exists to provide high quality facilities, resources and opportunities for research with crops and animals. It also has a key educational role by providing an environment for effective tuition of students in biosciences and veterinary science. The farm is run commercially to be self-financing whilst still fulfilling its role as a teaching and research resource. The farm manager is currently Jon Clatworthy. The farm is a mixed farm with an emphasis on dairy and arable production.
[edit] Livestock
The dairy herd consists of 220 cows, which are milked using a robot milking system (part of a 2 million-pound investment in the dairy). Current herd average is 11,200 litres putting it in the top 5% of dairy herds in the UK. Land used by the University Vet School and Bio-Resource unit is also managed by the farm.
[edit] Arable land
335 hectares are devoted to arable crops including cereals, oilseed and spring barley; a further 5 hectares is currently in an organic rotation. 80 hectares of land is used to grow grass and maize silage for the dairy unit. The remaining land support 20 hectares of mature woodland and 15 hectares in environmental schemes. Approx 18 hectares of the arable rotation is devoted to a range of crop trials.
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Coordinates: 52°49′59″N 1°14′50″W / 52.83306°N 1.24722°W
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