James Clarke

James Clarke

Agricultural Systems

ADAS

James is an Agriculture graduate of Reading University. He has been with ADAS since 1979. He is an expert in all aspects of production, especially sustainable agriculture, integrated farming and impacts of arable farming on the environment. He has a strategic/project director role in major projects on research investment, climate resilience, plant breeding, farming systems, assessment of sustainability, use and impacts of plant protection products, herbicide resistance and weed management. Other project involvement includes work on: Land Use for Net Zero, farmland biodiversity, developing Weed Manager (a weed management decision support system for winter wheat), weed encyclopaedia and weed ecology.