Jeremy Lewis, former head of agriculture at accountants Grant Thornton, has been elected new Chairman of the NIAB Board. He succeeds Tony Pexton, who has chaired the NIAB Board for the past eight years and stands down after 11 years on the Board. Richard …
NIAB TAG has set up a task-force to investigate the 2012 yield performance issues in winter wheat, with the aim of understanding and explaining the drop in yield across much of the country as well as significant local yield variations. The investigation …
Advanced Training Partnership celebrates successful Get Smart with Grass workshop The Advanced Training Partnership (ATP Pasture) for Sustainable and Efficient Food Production recently launched their training programme at the Livestock 2012 event. The …
Can you ID any of these weeds? If not brush up on your identification skills with places still available on NIAB TAG's 'Grass and Grassland Weed ID' training course on 30 October at Duchy College and on 14 November at NIAB in Cambridge. We're also …
The South-West Regional NFU Board visited NIAB in Cambridge today (Wednesday 24 October). As well as a tour of the NIAB facilities, including the state-of-the-art glasshouses at the MacLeod Complex and the crop transformation laboratories, the visit …
A message from Dr Tina Barsby, NIAB CEO NIAB TAG trials teams across the country report that they need five consecutive dry days to catch-up. It is currently fine at Cambridge (Friday 26 Oct), but it has rained again at our Sutton Scotney site this …
East of England MEP Richard Howitt visited the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge, on Friday 26 October, to see how EU funding is helping move innovation forward into the marketplace within the region. Mr Howitt toured the …
Our first look at the winter wheat and winter oilseed rape variety demo plots on the NIAB TAG stand at the 2013 Cereals Event site in Lincolnshire. . Despite the difficult autumn conditions NIAB TAG's Shaun Coleman and his team have succeeded in …
PHOTO: NIAB Innovation Farm reception building construction update …
The NIAB TAG Drilled Onion Variety Demo, funded by HDC , took place at our Cambridge Farm today (1 November) with Bruce Napier providing variety commentary and a summary of the variable growing season. Each box representing a variety trial plot from …
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