NIAB - National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Plant Science Into Practice
Sugar Beet
Contact: Simon Kerr
Services
- Assessing variety performance under different crop management systems
- Disease inoculated trials and field observations
- Customised trials to suit your requirements
- Crop Variety evaluation and demonstration trials
- Agrochemical registration, screening, efficacy, residue and demonstration trials
Customised Options
- Full trial establishment, recording, harvesting, analysis and reporting
- Trials on Rhizomania infected sites
- Virus yellows inoculated trials
- Harvesting of your trial for your own analysis
- Recording of your trial
- Agronomy advice on your trial
Resources
- Well established regional trial centres providing a range of geographical and environmental situations
- Extensive database of UK farmers/growers willing to host NIAB trials
- Specialist and standard equipment, drill and mobile tare house for harvesting
- BASIS and FACTS qualified members of staff
- Field, glasshouse and controlled environment facilities
Service Support
- Trials are supported by NIAB’s scientific laboratory and research services
- Seed handling services; treatment and packeting of seed for trials
- Sugar and impurity detection
- Produce quality analysis
- Data handling and statistical analysis
- Training courses provided by experts
- Market influence through publications, press releases and demonstrations