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Former Defra minister Sir Jim Paice MP has been appointed to the NIAB Board.

NIAB Board Chairman Jeremy Lewis said:

Harper Adams University (HAU) has won the NIAB TAG Agronomy Cup, a new annual national winter wheat trial competition aimed solely at agriculture students.

Ben Gooding, Rob Hosker, Alex McCormack and Howard Tratt from HAU’s FdSc Agriculture course beat students from Easton College, Newcastle University, The Royal Agricultural College, Lincoln University, Sparsholt College and fellow students from HAU’s BSc Agriculture course to take the 2012 title and a £2,000 cash prize for HAU.

Participants at a two day Advanced Training Partnership workshop, offered by Bangor University in Birmingham discovered some interesting facts about carbon foot printing and life cycle assessment of pasture-based agricultural practices.  Would you like to explore what they found at greater depth? 

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The four student NIAB TAG ASSET winners were invited to take part on the course on improving communication skills; providing free training to eight promising young agriculturists where good communication skills are expected to be integral to their career.

Precision farming on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today this morning (15 Jan) - NIAB's Farms Manager Mark Leaman takes presenter Anna Hill for a drive on one of our GPS-enabled tractors and talks about the cost-savings and benefits of the technology as Commercial Director Bill Clark discusses the challenges of matching current technology to the fast-changing science of crop production.

NIAB's Director of Crops and Agronomy, speaking at the HGCA Agronomists Conference in December 2012, on fungicide performance in wheat and barley in 2012

Plant scientists at NIAB are playing a leading role in a new multi-agency research project to improve the sustainability of vital food crops in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

The Potato Agronomy Unit at Cambridge University Farms (CUF) is set to become part of NIAB in a move which strengthens the future of world-leading potato agronomy research at the Cambridge-based Unit, while opening up promising new areas of collaborative research to meet the future needs of UK potato growers and their customers.