Dr. Rogier Schulte:

We include habitats. There will be three phases. Phase one, which will be next year and the year after, we are simply implementing best practice which we would recommend anyway, that is, the grass wedge, the carbon navigator, the five-point nutrient plan and the ten-point biodiversity plan.

In phase two, we start looking at the infrastructure in the college. In terms of bio-energy, there is, for example, a large woodland in the area that is currently and traditionally largely unmanaged. We propose to manage that for it to have two functions - a public amenity function and a producer of energy for the college as a client. Bio-energy crops may be an option also for the college as an energy client.

In the third phase, we will look at emerging technologies. The ICT area in agriculture is developing fast. We expect that in five or six years' time it may become affordable for real-time monitoring of, for example, both soil conditions and animal movements, and we will start implementing those emerging technologies.