The Cereal Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) was established in 2012, and is the longest-running YEN. With Cereal YEN, you can benchmark your crop's performance against other members, and attend workshops with experienced farmers, agronomists and scientists. Members are also eligible for entry to the YEN Awards at our annual conference.
All members receive a comprehensive report detailing how their crop performed and where improvements could be made. See an example report for spring barley.
Annual Cereal YEN membership
Membership is open, and available to anyone; farmers, agronomists, and researchers. All winter and spring cereals, including wheat, barley, rye, triticale and oats, are eligible for Cereal YEN entry.
Membership includes:
- One entrance into the annual Cereal YEN competition*
- One free soil analysis report**
- A comprehensive report on your crop’s performance
- One ticket to the Annual YEN Conference
- Optional Leaf tissue Analysis for two GS charged at £20 per GS - (GS30 Stem Extension and GS39 Flat Leaf emergence/Booting).
*Members can enter multiple fields; additional charges apply.
**Soil Health Checks must be carried out on the field entered into the competition. Soil analysis for additional field entered will be subject to additional charges.
Membership Fees
UK based individual Cereal YEN Membership is £400 (Excl VAT).
Where entries are supported by a UK based third party that is not an official YEN Sponsor, Membership is £525 (Excl VAT).
For all non-UK entries, Membership is £525.
A few of our sponsors also offer to contribute some or all of individual farmers membership fees. If you are interested in entering YEN with the help of a sponsor, please select relevant option on our order page by going to your YEN dashboard and selecting "Enter YENs" button.
Sponsorship
Sponsors are key in steering the evolution of this network and its activities. They have access to network information, intelligence and discussions to support their own yield enhancement initiatives.
Sponsors can also make multiple competition entries, and have multiple tickets to attend the annual YEN conference.
