This year bird surveyors encountered at least 38 bird species breeding on the NIAB farm and trial grounds on the outskirts of Cambridge. House sparrows back after more than decade The big news coming out of 2019’s Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) of the NIAB …
Book your place at the Food and Farming Futures conference on 25-26 November As a member of Food And Farming Futures, NIAB is supporting its 5th Annual Conference - Future Foods: Farming to Improve Health being held jointly with the RSA Food, Farming And …
Already a senior research associate at NIAB CUF Dr Stalham takes up his new role with immediate effect, guiding the overall scientific direction, development and management of NIAB CUF’s activities, including knowledge exchange. He will continue to have …
It takes an exceptional variety to win the Niab Variety Cup in a normal year and Niab can be go for several years without making an award. The Cup was first awarded in 1986 to the cauliflower White Rock, with past winners including Libravo winter oilseed …
Funding for the studentships, awarded to the Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), South Coast Biosciences (SoCoBio), which comprises of the universities of Southampton, Kent, Sussex, Portsmouth and the horticultural and agricultural research institute …
NIAB has jointly managed the centre, which first opened in 2009, with Pearce Seeds for the past twelve months. NIAB takes full control, with immediate effect, of the trials delivery business. The centre, along with its satellite trials sites across the …
NIAB technical director Bill Clark and crop variety specialists Bruce Napier, Simon Kightley, Hannah Parish and Cheryl Turnbull considered 100 years of non-cereal varieties from the horticulture and agriculture sector and assessed them in terms of …
The Advanced Technology Horticultural Zone will comprise new science buildings including the multi-million pound development of four state-of-the-art glasshouses, an energy centre and other related facilities and infrastructure. The glasshouses will …
Dr Aradottir will be developing NIAB’s research into plant-pest interactions in cereal and other combinable crops. This includes studying aphid resistance in wheat from a diverse background, working with NIAB plant breeders in identifying beneficial …
The award was collected by his successor, Dr Mark Stalham. Mark too was celebrating an award of his own – scooping the Agronomy award. As David recently stepped down as Head of the NIAB CUF, it’s time to look back at his career: An integral part of the …
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