Daniel Kindred Email & Phone Number

An Agronomic Scientist who is passionate about distilling knowledge and developing innovations that improve performance on-farm. Wide expertise across crop nutrition, crop physiology and agronomic systems. A thought leader in crop research, having co-designed innovative approaches for experimentation, data sharing, analysis, visualisation and knowledge exchange. Highly collaborative and looking to work with networks of forward thinking farmers, researchers and companies across the world. I've now set up a company to support on-farm research - if you are interested in testing products or practices on-farm please feel free to contact me on daniel@arcagsci.com.I come from a small arable farm in Suffolk and developed a passion for the science of agriculture whilst studying Agriculture at University of Nottingham (1st Class Honours Degree) and six months of potato research at Cambridge University Farm before a PhD in Agronomy at Reading University, investigating the physiological basis of heterosis in hybrid wheat yield and quality. I joined the Crop Physiology team at ADAS in 2004 as a Research Scientist working principally on understanding and reducing the nitrogen requirements of wheat. I managed, won and led a range of projects using crop management and breeding to improve crop performance, especially in relation to grain yield, nitrogen efficiency, biofuel production, GHG emissions and precision farming. I helped create the Yield Enhancement Network in 2012 and from 2017 I led development of ADAS' Agronomics approach to farmer-centric research, through ideas & benchmarking networks like YEN and farmer-led spatial experimentation at field scale. In 2021 I co-created FarmPEP as a knowledge sharing platform - www.farmpep.net.In January 2023 I joined Anglo American as Crop Scientist in the Science & Solutions team of the Crop Nutrients business, with the opportunity to re-imagine crop nutrition with the unique mineral polyhalite, which will be mined in North Yorkshire and sold across the world. I developed the concept of Nutrient Performance to consider the innovations and practices we could employ to minimise fertiliser use, maximise crop performance, improve soil health and optimise environmental performance. I worked with farmers and researchers around the world, initiating the Agronomy Research Circle to demonstrate the performance of new products and practices on-farm. With Data Farming we developed a simple platform for managing and monitoring on-farm trials with satellite imagery - you can access for free at https://arc.datafarming.com.

Listed skills include Agronomy, Agriculture, Biofuels, Sustainable Agriculture, and 25 others.