NIAB EMR has been awarded £50,000 in funding from the UK Research and Innovation’s Strength in Places Fund to develop a full business case for the Growing Kent & Medway innovation cluster.
A team of agriculture students from Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) are the winners of the NIAB Agronomy Cup for the second year.
Philip Dray, Olivia MacGarvie, William Watson and Will Davies achieved the highest gross margin of £2,131/ha in the annual winter wheat trial plot competition, based on a yield of 12.24 t/ha and an input cost of £72.15/ha.
A new, open access, wheat pedigree resource for plant breeders has been launched by NIAB, detailing more than 100 years of UK wheat - the NIAB UK wheat varieties pedigree.
It means wheat breeders and researchers can trace the heritage of the majority of modern wheat varieties in one place, as well as find out which genes breeders have been selecting for in recent decades.
The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this position in the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment from 1 January 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Professorship is a key component of the Cambridge Centre for Crop Science partnership involving the University and NIAB. The Professor will be based in a new Crop Science Building at NIAB's new campus on Lawrence Weaver Road in Cambridge.
The UK Pesticide Guide is the key authoritative reference for advisors, growers, contractors, local authorities and many others managing the impact of pests and diseases.
The 2019 NIAB TAG Outlook Conference takes place just six weeks before the UK deadline for leaving the EU, with the future of science and agriculture top of the agenda for the popular biennial agri-food event.
Ticket bookings are now being taken for the Conference on Wednesday 13th February 2019, held at the Ramside Hall Hotel in Co Durham. The event is open to anyone involved in the food and farming sectors and features the latest analysis and opinion from speakers from across the agri-food industry.
The British Crop Production Council, BCPC, will be joining NIAB in a move that will strengthen their delivery of independent information, products and opinion. Both organisations have the latest agricultural science at their core, to boost efficient, sustainable crop production.
New breeding technologies such as gene editing genuinely have the potential to underpin the next agricultural revolution. Quicker, more accurate selection of desired genetic traits in plant breeding offers the promise of a step-change increase in agricultural productivity, more durable pest and disease resistance, improved nutrition and resilience to climate change.
Malling Sunburst, NIAB EMR’s new sweet-tasting apple variety, pink-fleshed through to the core, will be exclusively available in Waitrose later this month, following harvest of the only currently commercial orchard of the variety at East Malling.
