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- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
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- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
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Key findings - Rootstock/tree architecture demonstration
This orchard was the first to be planted at the PDC in 2016, so yield data has been gathered since the first fruit was picked in 2017 and the latest results were shared with visitors at Fruit Focus. The orchard was planted with 10-tree plots of Victoria …
Key findings - Irrigation scheduling and management
Niab has done extensive work on irrigation scheduling techniques to improve water and fertiliser use efficiencies in apple, pear and cherry, but little has been done on plum. To inform their irrigation strategies during fruit development and cropping, the …
Key findings - Pruning and tree management
A more recently planted orchard including Victoria, Malling Elizabeth (formerly P7-38) and the early Malling selection P6-19, all on Wavit rootstock, was established at a closer row spacing so it could be covered by polytunnels. A total of eight rows …
Key findings - Variety Trial
The most recently planted orchard at the PDC is a variety trial. Containing 23 varieties and numbered selections that spread the season from early July to October, yields per tree were recorded in 2022 and 2023. At the time of writing, fruit was still …
Niab Landmark: Issue 58 - Spring 2025
Available to all - access the online flip-book and downloadable PDF versions of Issue 58 – Spring 2025. Niab Landmark: Spring 2025 With an all-female author list Issue 58 includes an overview of the 2025 cereals and oilseed variety candidates, updates to …
Niab Landmark: Issue 57 Winter 2024/25
Available to all - access the online flip-book and downloadable PDF versions of Issue 58 – Spring 2025. Niab Landmark: Winter 2024/25 In this issue: Today's innovations to feed tomorrow's world - Niab CEO Mario Caccamo welcomes the latest news on the …
NEWS: FLYTHRIVE uses AI to drive natural defences and deliver value to growers
UK berry growers are threatened by increasing pest infestations which drive down yields and increase costs; aphids can reduce berry crop yields by more than 30%. Growers are urgently searching for new ways to deal with pests at a predictable cost and with …
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