The proactive ... approach is a dynamic philosophy geared towards intervening in the environment to improve water quality, reduce flood risk and diffuse pollution, recycle waste and introduce renewable energy generation into farming. This includes diffuse pollution management, flood management at source, waste recycling on farms, decision support tools, demonstration sites and modelling. More ...

BBC films and home made films of our projects are available on Youtube.com/Proactivefarms

Integrated Runoff Management is a new approach to managing flow on, through and from farm land. By introducing features and structures in the landscape multiple benefits can be gained: reducing nutrient and pesticide export and reducing the risk of flooding at all scales from a single field to a whole catchment. More ...

Farm Integrated Runoff Management (FIRM) Plans... are at the heart of the PROACTIVE approach. FIRM Plans are committed to the concept of the storage, slowing, filtering and infiltration of runoff on farms at source. We believe this to be practical, achievable and could easily be funded by the strategic investment of agri-environment, flood mitigation, waste recycling and renewable energy/ carbon reduction subsidies. More ...

The Decision Support Matrix (DSM) approach is built on a set of tools designed to support policy and decision making. Conceptual models, interactive tools and examples of good and bad land management practice are used to communicate the results of research to end users such as policy makers, farmers and agronomists. More ...

TOPCAT is a simple hydrological model that provides time series modelling of flow and of nitrate, phosphates and phosphorus.

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Now available! 'TOPCAT-NP: a minimum information requirement model for simulation of flow and nutrient transport from agricultural systems,' Quinn,P.F. Hewett C.J.M. and Dayawansa N.D.K. In: Hydrological Processes (2007). Wiley InterScience, 2007. More ...

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