The campaign aims to fend off a compulsory set-aside replacement across England by encouraging farmers to adopt voluntary environmental measures.

But five training events held on farms across the country during the past fortnight were attended by just 42 advisers.

Campaign partners said more work was needed to reach those farm advisers who were not yet fully aware of the aims of the campaign.

The RSPB has called on agronomy firms and independent agronomist groups to book a free training day at its Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire.

Experts from key campaign partners would be on hand to guide delegates through the environmental measures included in the campaign.

Jim Egan, chairman of the CFE delivery group, said that the campaign had so far directly reached 800 agronomists and farm advisers.

But there are believed to be about 1500 agronomists and the target is to reach all of them over three years.

A total of 120 agronomists and advisers have so far received training.

These are the people who can make a real difference to the way farms are run on the ground, he said.

It is essential our experts meet them face-to-face to demonstrate how the aims of the campaign can be achieved and why they are so important.

Richard Winspear, RSPB farming adviser, said: The events so far have been very encouraging but more needs to be done to get the message across.

Hope Farm is run as a commercial farm and features many of the environmental measures the campaign is calling on farmers to put in place on their land.

If any agronomist groups or companies want to learn about the details of these measures from the experts then all they need to do is call us to book a day.

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