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The National Plant Phenomics Centre at IBERS Aberystwyth has produced this CT scanning animated image to view NIAB’s MAGIC CARPeT wheat ears, a BBSRC BGR funded project.

NIAB Digital is a new interactive farm software platform, giving farmers and agronomists the ability to map, manage, store, share and compare farm, crop and research data, launched by NIAB at the 2017 Cereals Event.

NIAB has appointed Dr Richard Harrison as its new Director of Cambridge Crop Research.

NIAB welcomed Her Majesty The Queen to Cambridge on Tuesday 9th July with a celebration of 100 years of crop science.

As part of the organisation’s Centenary celebrations CEO and Director Dr Tina Barsby accompanied The Queen as she met staff in the Sophi Taylor Building Conference Centre and glasshouses at NIAB’s Park Farm field station on the outskirts of Cambridge.

It's moving week at NIAB!

Our Agricultural Crops Characterisation, Pathology, Ornamentals Crops Characterisation, Analytical Services (including NIAB LabTest), OSTS, and crop transformation teams are moving from the Huntingdon Road site into our fantastic new 'Barn 1' at our Cambridge Park Farm site over the next week or so. Take a look at some images from the new build before everyone moves in.

The University of Cambridge has elected Dr Giles Oldroyd to the Russel R Geiger Professorship of Crop Science, leading the Crop Science Centre partnership with NIAB. As Director Professor Oldroyd will be based in the Crop Science Building at NIAB’s new headquarters on Lawrence Weaver Road, opening in 2020.

This year bird surveyors encountered at least 38 bird species breeding on the NIAB farm and trial grounds on the outskirts of Cambridge.

House sparrows back after more than decade

The big news coming out of 2019’s Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) of the NIAB trial grounds in Cambridge is that nationally declining house sparrows are back.

The award was collected by his successor, Dr Mark Stalham. Mark too was celebrating an award of his own – scooping the Agronomy award. As David recently stepped down as Head of the NIAB CUF, it’s time to look back at his career:

An integral part of the Potato Research group since joining in 1984, David succeeded Eric Allen as leader in 2008, supervising the transfer of CUF into NIAB in 2013.

The NIAB posters are grouped together into a range of topics and are now available for you to download below:

Funding for the studentships, awarded to the Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), South Coast Biosciences (SoCoBio), which comprises of the universities of Southampton, Kent, Sussex, Portsmouth and the horticultural and agricultural research institute NIAB-EMR, is part of a £170m boost to fund 1,700 PhD researchers over five annual cohorts at academic institutions nationwide. The University of Southampton consortium is one of just 12 successful bids across the UK.