- About
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Research
- Agronomy and farming systems
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Agricultural crop research
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Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- BioBoost
- Biomass Connect
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Designing Future Wheat
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- Rustwatch
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance Network
- The research team
- UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey
- UK wheat varieties pedigree
- Weed management - IWM Praise
- Crop breeding
- Crop characterisation
- Data sciences
- Genetics and pre-breeding
- Plant biotechnology
- Plant pathology and entomology
- Resources
-
Research projects - agriculture
-
Horticultural crop research
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Augmented Berry Vision
- BEESPOKE
- Boosting brassica nutrition in smart growing systems
- CTP for Fruit Crop Research
- Develop user-friendly nutrient demand models
- Egg laying deterrents for spotted wing drosophila
- Enhancing the nutritional quality of tomatoes
- Improving berry harvest forecasts and productivity
- Improving vineyard soil health through groundcover management
- Intelligent growing systems
- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
- RASCAL
- STOP-SPOT
- UV-Robot
- Crop science and production systems
- Genetics, genomics and breeding
- Pest and pathogen ecology
- Field vegetables and salad crops
- Plum Demonstration Centre
- The WET Centre
- Viticulture and Oenology
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Crop Science Centre
-
Services
- Analytical Services
- Business Development
- Commercial trial services
- Digital
- Membership
- Plant breeding
- Plant characterisation
- Seed certification
-
Training
-
Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
- Advanced crop management of vegetable brassicas
- Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
- Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
- Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
- Developing a Successful Strategy for Spring Crops
- Disease Management and Control in Cereal Crops
- Improving Soil Organic Matter and Farm Carbon Management
- Incorporating SFI options into your rotation
- Protected Environment Horticulture – Best Practice
- Techniques for better pest management in combinable crops
- Crop inspector and seed certification
- Licensed seed sampling
-
Technical agronomy training
- News & Views
- Events
-
Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
-
Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
- Regen-ag & sustainability
-
Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
- POSTER: Pulse crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Wheat crop identification (2023)
-
Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- Varieties
- About
-
Research
- Agronomy and farming systems
-
Agricultural crop research
-
Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- BioBoost
- Biomass Connect
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Designing Future Wheat
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- Rustwatch
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance Network
- The research team
- UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey
- UK wheat varieties pedigree
- Weed management - IWM Praise
- Crop breeding
- Crop characterisation
- Data sciences
- Genetics and pre-breeding
- Plant biotechnology
- Plant pathology and entomology
- Resources
-
Research projects - agriculture
-
Horticultural crop research
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Augmented Berry Vision
- BEESPOKE
- Boosting brassica nutrition in smart growing systems
- CTP for Fruit Crop Research
- Develop user-friendly nutrient demand models
- Egg laying deterrents for spotted wing drosophila
- Enhancing the nutritional quality of tomatoes
- Improving berry harvest forecasts and productivity
- Improving vineyard soil health through groundcover management
- Intelligent growing systems
- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
- RASCAL
- STOP-SPOT
- UV-Robot
- Crop science and production systems
- Genetics, genomics and breeding
- Pest and pathogen ecology
- Field vegetables and salad crops
- Plum Demonstration Centre
- The WET Centre
- Viticulture and Oenology
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Crop Science Centre
-
Services
- Analytical Services
- Business Development
- Commercial trial services
- Digital
- Membership
- Plant breeding
- Plant characterisation
- Seed certification
-
Training
-
Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
- Advanced crop management of vegetable brassicas
- Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
- Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
- Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
- Developing a Successful Strategy for Spring Crops
- Disease Management and Control in Cereal Crops
- Improving Soil Organic Matter and Farm Carbon Management
- Incorporating SFI options into your rotation
- Protected Environment Horticulture – Best Practice
- Techniques for better pest management in combinable crops
- Crop inspector and seed certification
- Licensed seed sampling
-
Technical agronomy training
- News & Views
- Events
-
Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
-
Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
- Regen-ag & sustainability
-
Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
- POSTER: Pulse crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Wheat crop identification (2023)
-
Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- Varieties
Training courses 2026
|
Course |
Part & Location |
Course date |
Exam date |
Application date |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Cereals Crop Inspectors training and examination |
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| Cereals Initial | Part I - Online | 26 - 29/01/2026 | 29/01/2026 | 05/01/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 16/06/2026 | 16/06/2026 | 05/01/2026 | ||
| Cereal initial optional dry material revision session | 25/03/2026 | N/A | 04/03/2026 | ||
| Cereal Licensed & Licensed Higher Retest | Part I - Online | 11/02/2026 | 11/02/2026 | 21/01/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 18/06/2026 | 18/06/2026 | 21/01/2026 | ||
| Optional dry material revision session - invite will be sent to candidates | 25/03/2026 | N/A | 04/03/2026 | ||
| Compulsory Re-Attendance. INVITE ONLY |
Part I compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Online | 11/02/2026 | 11/02/2026 | 21/01/2026 | Invite Only |
| Part II compulsory re-attendance for 2025 Official Candidates - Plot based | 16/06/2026 | 16/06/2026 | 21/01/2026 | ||
| Part II compulsory re-attendance for 2025 Licenced/Licenced Higher Candidates - Plot based | 18/06/2026 | 18/06/2026 | 21/01/2026 | ||
|
Herbage Crop Inspectors training and examination |
|||||
| Herbage Initial | Part I - Online | 24/02/2026 | 24/02/2026 | 03/02/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 07/05/2026 | 07/05/2026 | 03/02/2026 | ||
| Herbage Lincesed, Licensed Higher & Official Retest | Part I - Online | 24/02/2026 | 24/02/2026 | 03/02/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - plot based | 07/05/2026 | 07/05/2026 | 03/02/2026 | ||
| Compulsory Re-Attendance. INVITE ONLY |
Part I compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Online | 24/02/2026 | 24/02/2026 | 03/02/2026 | Invite Only |
| Part II compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Plot based | 07/05/2026 | 07/05/2026 | 03/02/2026 | ||
|
Pulse Crop Inspectors training and examination |
|||||
| Pulse Initial | Part I - Online | 26/02/2026 | 26/02/2026 | 05/02/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 04/06/2026 | 04/06/2026 | 05/02/2026 | ||
| Pulse Lincesed, Licensed Higher & Official Retest | Part I - Online | 26/02/2026 | 26/02/2026 | 05/02/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 04/06/2026 | 04/06/2026 | 05/02/2026 | ||
| Compulsory Re-Attendance. INVITE ONLY | Part I compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Online | 26/02/2026 | 26/02/2026 | 05/02/2026 | Invite Only |
| Part II compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Plot based | 04/06/2026 | 04/06/2026 | 05/02/2026 | ||
|
Fodder and Oilseed Crop Inspectors training and examination |
|||||
| Fodder & Oilseeds Initial | Part I - Online | 23/09/2026 | 23/09/2026 | 02/09/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 07/10/2026 | 07/10/2026 | 02/09/2026 | ||
| Fodder & Oilseeds Licensed, Licensed Higher & Official Retest | Part I - Online | 23/09/2026 | 23/09/2026 | 02/09/2026 | Book Here |
| Part II - Plot based | 07/10/2026 | 07/10/2026 | 02/09/2026 | ||
| Compulsory Re-Attendance. INVITE ONLY |
Part I compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Online | 23/09/2026 | 23/09/2026 | 02/09/2026 | Invite Only |
| Part II compulsory re-attendance for 2025 candidates - Plot based | 07/10/2026 | 07/10/2026 | 02/09/2026 | ||
|
Non Crop Inspectors Courses |
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| Seed Cert Administration | Seed Certification Administration course - Online | 22/10/2025 | N/A | 17/07/2026 | Book Here |
*Please note all part 2 plot based courses will start in the plot location as given in the pre course email
All retest candidates and compulsory re attendance candidates wull be sent an invitation to attend training
Contact
Niab
Park Farm
Villa Road
Histon
Cambridge
CB24 9NZ, UK
Tel: +44(0)1223 342200
Email: [email protected]
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