Inventors, scientists and developers have a chance to win £10,000 and national recognition for their farming innovations by entering the Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) and Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) 2016 Practice with Science Award. The …
Seven new first-choice varieties have been added to the British Society of Plant Breeder’s 2016 Forage Maize Descriptive Lists (DL), alongside five new varieties on the Forage Maize for Anaerobic Digestion DLs. The varieties Coditank and Emmerson from DLF …
Agri-Tech East’s New Soil Health Special Interest Group Microbial activity is more important in maintaining soil health and its natural fertility than previously thought and a new technique to visualise soil structure will be one of the presentations at …
NIAB TAG has appointed Andrew Watson as its Eastern Regional Agronomist. Andrew will start with NIAB TAG in his new role in early October, providing agronomy information and technical services to members across the eastern region, from The Wash down to …
George Eustice MP, Minister of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment and George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, have officially launched Agrimetrics, the world’s first Big Data Centre of Excellence for …
Interactive courses on the science behind remote sensing and an introduction to arable farming have been added to the ARTIS agricultural e-learning platform. The industry-led agricultural training initiative provides a subscription-based online training …
NIAB and UCL (University College London) have been awarded £838,000 by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to develop innovative methods to help improve UK wheat performance based on the MAGIC plant breeding research …
A new research centre dedicated to reducing crop and food waste and improving resource use efficiency in the horticultural and fresh produce supply chains has been opened in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The first of its kind in the UK, the Eastern AgriGate …
Four agriculture students from Newcastle University have successfully tested their crop management skills against teams from across the UK to win the 2015 NIAB Agronomy Cup and the title ‘the best student wheat growers in the country’. Joe Campbell, …
The NIAB Ornamentals team will be exhibiting for the second year at IPM 2016 on the ‘Plant breeders’ rights in Europe’ stand alongside the European Community Plant Variety Office , the Bundessortenamt (Germany), the Netherlands Inspection Service for …
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