Outputs (9)

More sustainable vegetable oil: Balancing productivity with carbon storage opportunities (2022)
Journal Article
Alcock, T. D., Salt, D. E., Wilson, P., & Ramsden, S. J. (2022). More sustainable vegetable oil: Balancing productivity with carbon storage opportunities. Science of the Total Environment, 829, Article 154539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154539

Intensive cultivation and post-harvest vegetable oil production stages are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Variation between production systems and reporting disparity have resulted in discordance in previous emissions estimates. The... Read More about More sustainable vegetable oil: Balancing productivity with carbon storage opportunities.

Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice (2020)
Journal Article
Mitchell, E. G., Crout, N. M., Wilson, P., Wood, A. T., & Stupfler, G. (2020). Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191919

© 2020 The Authors. Wheat farming provides 28.5% of global cereal production. After steady growth in average crop yield from 1950 to 1990, wheat yields have generally stagnated, which prompts the question of whether further improvements are possible.... Read More about Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice.

Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England (2019)
Journal Article
Helliwell, R., Seymour, S., & Wilson, P. (2020). Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England. Energy Research and Social Science, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101387

Outside of Denmark, straw-based bioenergy has seen uneven success across Europe. In the UK, straw-based bioenergy has been positioned as making a potentially important contribution to the UK government's energy and environmental objectives. However,... Read More about Neglected intermediaries in bioenergy straw supply chains: Understanding the roles of merchants, contractors and agronomists in England.

Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production (2018)
Journal Article
Areal, F. J., Jones, P. J., Mortimer, S. R., & Wilson, P. (2018). Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production. Land Use Policy, 75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.001

We combine the use of a stochastic frontier analysis framework and composite indicators for farm provision of environmental goods to obtain a farm level composite indicator reflecting sustainable intensification. The novel sustainable intensification... Read More about Measuring sustainable intensification: combining composite indicators and efficiency analysis to account for positive externalities in cereal production.

Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of forage-based dairy herds across the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Bell, M. J., & Wilson, P. (in press). Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of forage-based dairy herds across the UK. Food and Energy Security, Article e00127. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.127

Differences in performance among the areas of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can provide some insight into the resilience of UK milk supplies from forage-based dairy herds. This study used a Markov Chain approach to model the average h... Read More about Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of forage-based dairy herds across the UK.

Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of dairy herds across the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, M. J., & Wilson, P. (2017). Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of dairy herds across the UK. Aspects of Applied Biology, 136,

Production data were obtained from about half a million milk recorded dairy cows and the Farm Business Surveys for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This study modelled the average herd in each region between the years 2010 to 2015 and a... Read More about Estimated differences in economic and environmental performance of dairy herds across the UK.

Food and bioenergy: exploring ideotype traits of a dual-purpose wheat cultivar (2016)
Journal Article
Townsend, T. J., Roy, J., Wilson, P., Tucker, G. A., & Sparkes, D. L. (2017). Food and bioenergy: exploring ideotype traits of a dual-purpose wheat cultivar. Field Crops Research, 201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2016.11.007

Lignocellulosic biofuels, such as those produced from crop residues, offer the possibility of reducing GHG emissions in the transport sector. Wheat straw is one potential feedstock for these fuels but grain yield has been prioritised over straw yield... Read More about Food and bioenergy: exploring ideotype traits of a dual-purpose wheat cultivar.

Farmer characteristics associated with improved and high farm business performance (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, P. (2014). Farmer characteristics associated with improved and high farm business performance. https://doi.org/10.5836/ijam/2014-04-02

Common Agricultural Policy reform, coupled with increasing market and climatic volatility will necessitate a competitive, resilient and environmentally sustainable UK agricultural industry reliant upon successful farm business management. Drawing upo... Read More about Farmer characteristics associated with improved and high farm business performance.

A comparison of the economic value for enteric methane emissions with other biological traits associated with dairy cows
Journal Article
Bell, M. J., Pryce, J., & Wilson, P. (in press). A comparison of the economic value for enteric methane emissions with other biological traits associated with dairy cows. https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-1047.16002

This is the first study to derive the economic value of enteric methane produced by a ruminant animal. There is considerable interest globally in selecting for low methane-emitting ruminant livestock, as methane is a potent greenhouse gas. However, b... Read More about A comparison of the economic value for enteric methane emissions with other biological traits associated with dairy cows.