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We welcome applications for our financial support. If you have an idea you think we could be interested in then this is how to apply.

Each year, TMAF invests about £400,000 in agricultural research, our own projects, student studies, professional development of farmers and others and educational initiatives for school-age children.

Current TMAF Grants

Educational initiatives for school-age children

Food & Farming Discovery trust

Royal Norfolk Ag. Association

£15,000

Herts School Food and Farming Day

Hertfordshire Ag. Society

£3,000

School Farm & Country Fair

Suffolk Ag. Association

£3,000

Essex Schools Food and Farming Day

Essex Ag. Association

£3,000

Farm my Food, GCSE Business and Nutrition

Linking Environment and Farming

£2,000

Professional development of farmers and others

Young Innovators Forum

Agritech-E

£13,000

Yield Enhancement Network Report Link High Crop Yields and Environmental Impact

ADAS Daniel Kindred

£10,000

The Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) Leadership Programme

Ollie Scott

£2,000

John Forrest Award – Communication Training

8 Agri professionals

£5,000

Student studies

MSc Plant Genetics – Studying Barley Microbiomes

Jack Davis MSc, UEA

£5,000

Soil Cadre Soil & Cover Crop Associations Developing Rhizo-Biological Efficiency

George Crane PhD, Cambridge University/NIAB

£3,000

Biophysical Effects of Plant Root Systems on Soil Health and Crop Yields

David Purdy PhD, Nottingham University

£5,500

The Effects of Legume Rotations on Soil Microbial Populations

Harvey Armstrong, Morley PhD fully funded by TMAF

£29,000

Deep Seated Compaction

Joe Martlew PhD, NIAB/Cranfield University – Completed April 2022

£8,250

Evaluating Sugar Beet Canopy

Lucy Tiller PhD, Nottingham University

£5,000

Sugar Beet Virus Yellow Strain Variation, Resistance and Variety Influence

Suzanna Cobb PhD, University of East Anglia

£11,700

Research fully funded by TMAF at Morley

Morley SAMS

TMAF Project

£50,000

Morley Clean Water Project

TMAF Project

£5,000

New Farming Systems

NIAB

£106,000

Morley LoTS

NIAB

£87,000

Vacancy: key farm operator South Norfolk
Morley farms is seeking a key farm operator to join our team. Main tasks will be combining and spraying, although the candidate must be willing to undertake all tasks when appropriate on the farm.
7th November 2023
AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm Results Webinars 2023
Morley Farm’s role as the new AHDB strategic for the East of the UK has begun. Get a sense of what we are a part of and catch up on what other strategic farms have achieved already by joining regular lunchtime webinars this November.
2nd November 2023
A significant step towards low fertiliser farming
The next of the PhD students we support to report on her study is Abi Brock. She has long held an interest in plants, and what makes them work, and now is focussed on helping crop plants to work even harder with less added fertiliser than ever before.
30th October 2023