Sponsored by: The 2013 NIAB TAG Outlook Conference will focus on the current and future impact of price volatility and variable weather conditions on arable businesses in the north-east and across the UK, and look at short and long-term solutions. …
Participants at a two day Advanced Training Partnership workshop, offered by Bangor University in Birmingham discovered some interesting facts about carbon foot printing and life cycle assessment of pasture-based agricultural practices. Would you like to …
Harper Adams University (HAU) has won the NIAB TAG Agronomy Cup , a new annual national winter wheat trial competition aimed solely at agriculture students. Ben Gooding, Rob Hosker, Alex McCormack and Howard Tratt from HAU’s FdSc Agriculture course beat …
Former Defra minister Sir Jim Paice MP has been appointed to the NIAB Board. NIAB Board Chairman Jeremy Lewis said: “NIAB is delighted to welcome Sir Jim as a member of the Board. His knowledge and experience of the food and farming sectors, and his …
NIAB TAG is making its popular variety and seed handbook widely available to growers and industry for the first time this spring. Formerly known as the ‘ Seeds Handbook for Agronomists’ the publication is being re-launched as the ‘ Variety and Seed …
Stand summary The latest independent advice and research on plant breeding, varieties, crop agronomy, soils and plant innovation – covering everything a visitor to Cereals 2013 is looking for - including: Winter wheat and winter oilseed rape variety …
NIAB, Cambridge - A new £2.16m visitor centre and glasshouse facilities to showcase advances in plant genetics have been officially opened by Defra Science Minister Lord de Mauley. The new Sophi Taylor Building and glasshouse will be the main venue for …
NIAB's synthetic wheat programme will be featured on BBC Countryfile at 6pm on 12 May, and across BBC News programmes that day, as part of a feature highlighting how plants can be adapted for the future to deal with things like an increased population, …
UK wheat yields could be boosted by up to 30% with the introduction of a new wheat bred from a wild grass species. The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge has recreated the original rare cross between an ancient wheat and wild …
Precision technology that will allow reduced herbicide use by accurately identifying and spot-spraying weeds, developed from research funded by the Horticultural Development Company (HDC), is to go into commercial production. The prototype device combines …
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