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Fibre processing webinar -15 Jan

Hear from Jon Horsfield - Harrison Spinks, the homegrown luxury bedmakers and from IndiNature who have produced the first home grown, BBA approved bio-based insulation about how they turn fibre crops into products. The process of going from field to fibre …

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The WRO Archive - a new dawn

I was amused by an advert for a recently introduced cereal black-grass herbicide product which said it is ‘a new dawn for weed control’. The source of my amusement was that I have been involved with the digitisation of the Weed Research Organisation (WRO) …

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Northern Farming Hub: cover crops - 29 Jan

The Northern Farming Hub is a new collaboration between Catchment Sensitive Farming, The University of Leeds and Niab to bring the very best speakers to north-east England. The project will evolve over time, covering a wide range of topics that will be …

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Raising the profile of UK agriscience in Parliament

The multi-partner exhibit, staffed by scientists from Niab, the John Innes Centre, Rothamsted Research, the Roslin Institute and the University of Lincoln, showcased UK taxpayer-funded research and innovation taking place across a range of sectors and …

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New nestboxes for Niab

The nestboxes, donated by schoolchildren from Bar Hill Primary School, will provide homes for nature at Niab’s recently renovated offices and laboratories in Histon, just outside Cambridge. The expansion of Niab’s bird nestbox numbers has come at the …

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