3 June - East (Cambridge) Open Day

Open to all, members and non-members, access Niab’s latest agronomy research and demonstrations at our Cambridge-Hinxton trials site. 

The Niab East (Cambridge) Open Day is free to attend with a mix of inside exhibits and field based demonstrations that enable attendees to interact with Niab researchers and other industry experts.

Niab champions the role of independent variety and agronomic research with strong links to primary agriculture through its membership programme Niab Agronomy Membership. Members benefit from early access to information gathered through strategic Niab research as well as the extensive member-funded programmes delivering impartial, cost effective agronomy strategies.

EVENT TIMETABLE

9.45 am  Registration opens, inside exhibits and refreshments
10.15 am  Welcome
10.30 am  Niab field plot demonstration tours start
1.00 pm  Lunch plus marquee exhibits
1.30 pm CHCx3 - forage cropping demonstration tour (optional) - 30 mins

The Open Day features a single start time, with visitors split into groups with tour guides, circulating around the demos.

IN THE FIELD

• Winter wheat varieties - Clare Leaman and Ian Midgley
• Winter wheat disease management - Dr Aoife O’Driscoll
• Grass weed management - Andrew Watson and Sam Bousfield
• High carbon capture cropping - leys and alternative crops - Dr Lydia Smith and Jasmine Toole
• Regen-ag – varieties and N response - Dr Stephanie Swarbreck and Dr Nathan Morris

Optional tour available
Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping - forage cropping

Visitors can view Niab's perennial forage and feed cropping demonstration plots including herbal grazing, medium diversity, simple lolium and lamb finishing leys, part of the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping project. Join our demonstrators Dr Lydia Smith and Jasmine Toole, who will provide advice and information on how diversification using forage cropping can help build farm resilience and target Net Zero.

The tour will start after lunch, at 1.30pm, with priority given to those visitors in the lunch queue!

STATIC EXHIBITS

Additional static exhibits and posters will cover grass and broad-leaved weed control, wheat blends, protein and alternative break crops and plant pathology. Plus find out more about Niab Agronomy Membership services, pick-up information on Niab's Analytical Services, talk to our team about the range of agricultural and horticultural commercial trials services in the field and glasshouse, and learn about our extensive training platform, from agronomy and farm management, to crop inspectors and seed sampling.

BASIS and NRoSO points applied for