The latest crop of potato growers have graduated from the MacFry Potato Academy, the specialist agronomy and management industry training course. The Academy is a joint initiative between NIAB and McDonald’s UK and Ireland, in association with potato …
I remember speaking to a soft fruit grower in the early 1970s about the early days of pesticide use. There appeared to be no regulation. He claimed that he fed his treated crops to rabbits on the evening before marketing and went ahead and sold the …
Well it seems a good idea in theory. The new EU pesticide legislation includes the concept that where there are a few products available for a particular use then only the least hazardous ones should be authorised. The legislation accepts that the …
Back in the late 1950s, when I was about 12-years-old, the local NFU office gave you a crispy 10 shillings note for a dead magpie. Now 10 shillings (equivalent to 50p) doesn’t sound a lot, but then you could take a bus into town, go to the cinema, have …
The Niab Agronomy Cup was an annual unique trials-based crop challenge begun in 2012 and finishing in 2019. It aimed to engage with the next generation of agricultural advisors and crop scientists whilst showcasing practical agronomic science and crop …
Niab is based at the heart of an active science and technology-based community in Cambridge, with regional centres across the UK. Cambridge Niab is based at Park Farm, near Histon outside Cambridge. The research station is home to The MacLeod Complex - …
I have always associated the Houses of Parliament with robust, and sometimes aggressive, debate. With this in mind, I attended a recent meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology. I was disappointed because of the complete absence of …
We reviewed all our 2011 experimental results recently. One trial result particularly interested me - chlormequat increased wheat yield in the absence of lodging. This doesn’t typically occur, despite what many are led to believe. So why did it this year? …
There was a very thoughtful reply to my blog on the impact of predators on the numbers of farmland birds including two key statements: ‘the predators have as much right to exist as their prey’; and ‘….controlling a species to benefit another is just …
I was listening to one of my favourite tracks on my Christmas present over the holiday period. The song describes the opening-up of the US prairies and has a line; ‘First came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers and then came the …
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