NIAB - National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Plant Science Into Practice
Training and Education
Training
NIAB has a long-established and successful reputation in delivering specialist training to government and commercial customers. These include variety and pest identification, crop inspection methods, seed sampling and testing specifically aimed at agricultural advisors and agronomists in support of crop quality assurance schemes.
- Training Courses:
- Course dates and fees
- International
ASSET
ASSET (Agricultural Science Student Education Training) is an innovative training and award scheme aimed at encouraging more students into the plant science sector. It is a joint initiative between NIAB TAG and four leading crop science universities; Reading, Harper Adams, Newcastle and Nottingham, and is generously supported by the NIAB Trust and The Morley Agricultural Foundation charities.
NIAB TAG Agronomy Cup
A unique trials-based competition open to student teams, the NIAB TAG Agronomy Cup launched in 2012 promotes the training of a new generation of agricultural advisors and crop scientists, and increases our engagement with colleges and universities. Using the same winter wheat variety each team’s plots include four treatments, randomised in a block of five replicates, located at the NIAB TAG Field Trials site nearest to their college or university. Students make all the agronomic input decisions, with help from NIAB TAG Regional Agronomists and field trials officers. The competition is judged on final gross margin, the best way of evaluating the entrants’ decisions, emphasising the importance of field observations, basing decisions on those observations and then understanding and interpreting the results from field trials.