NIAB Autumn combinable crops pocketbook

This booklet covers winter wheat, winter barley, winter oats, winter rye, triticale, winter beans, winter oilseed rape and winter linseed, with details of yield, agronomic characters, quality and disease resistance from trials supported by HGCA and PGRO plus a written variety description. The strength of the book is the accessibility of information, with all known facts consolidated into a double page spread for each variety.

NIAB Spring combinable crops pocketbook

This booklet covers spring wheat, spring barley, spring oats, spring beans, spring oilseed rape, linseed, field peas, sunflowers and other minor crops, with details of yield, agronomic characters, quality and disease resistance from trials supported by HGCA and PGRO, plus a written variety description. The strength of the book is the accessibility of information, with all known facts consolidated into a double page spread for each variety.

NIAB Potato pocketbook

The potato book provides tables of varieties for use in ware production, French fry production, crisping and specialty uses. There is a double-page spread for each variety with comprehensive description and tabular data on quality, disease resistance, field characters and yield from trials supported by BPC.

NIAB Livestock crops pocketbook

This booklet combines the previous lists of grasses, herbage legumes and forage maize to present a guide to the major livestock crops, with NIAB Recommended and Descriptive Lists of the best varieties. Trials from which data are derived are supported by the BSPB Grass Levy Scheme and (grasses & herbage legumes) and BSPB (maize).

NIAB Agronomists Handbook

The NIAB Agronomists’ Handbook gives comprehensive coverage of all major arable and livestock crops utilised in the UK. The tables include most of the popular varieties, making the book an invaluable one-stop fro answering client queries or for deciding on future cropping strategies when used in conjunction with the NIAB pocketbooks. The Agronomists Handbook, containing variety tables, interaction tables, seed standards, Classified List of all available UK cereal, oilseed and pulse varieties and other useful information for cereals, oilseeds, pulses, grasses, maize, potatoes & sugar beet.

NIAB VEG FINDER 2007

Have you, like The Prince of Wales, ever wondered whether one of your favorite garden vegetable varieties is still available? And if so where can you buy seed? Well wonder no longer because the annual NIAB “Veg Finder” is now available on CD. One of our recently retired colleagues has trawled through 35 garden seed catalogues and updated our database of vegetable and herb varieties. Contrary to perceived wisdom the number of varieties available to gardeners is not shrinking but increasing with 230 extra entries this year. The total list contains over 6000 names of which just over 400 are herbs and the balance vegetable varieties.

NIAB Organic Vegetable Handbook

This publication features nearly 450 vegetable and potato varieties suitable for organic production. The booklet includes varieties that have given the best performance in terms of quality, yield and disease resistance on approved organic farms and are available as organic or untreated seed. 21 crops in all are featured: beetroot, broad beans broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, celeriac, kale, leeks, lettuce, onions, oriental vegetables, parsnips, potatoes radish, swedes, sweet corn, turnips and winter squash. There is a table for each crop group, summarising variety characteristics, together with a description of each variety. The trial work is funded by Defra.

NIAB Seed Identification Handbook

A comprehensive guide to over 200 seeds commonly found in agriculture. Full colour illustrations with descriptions and life-size silhouettes to aid identification. Convenient lie-flat format.

NIAB Wall Chart of potato tuber diseases and disorders

NIAB Diseases of peas and beans

The disease handbook features full-colour photographs of the common - and not-so-common - diseases, with descriptions of symptoms. The shots used are all from the NIAB collection, taken by the NIAB staff photographer under controlled conditions, and are of stunning quality.