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Variety choice
POSTER: Grass and forage variety choice (2024)
POSTER: Oilseed rape variety choice (2024)
POSTER: Pulse variety choice (2024)
POSTER: Wheat variety blends (2024)
Variety choice - archive
POSTER: Oilseed rape variety choice (2023)
POSTER: Pulse variety choice (2023)
Crop nutrition and fertilisers
POSTER: Alternative N sources (2024)
POSTER: Factors affecting NUE (2024)
POSTER: Improving NUE (2024)
POSTER: Maize nitrogen through the growing season (2024)
POSTERS: Nitrogen use efficiency (2022)
Disease management
POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2024)
POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring (2024)
POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
POSTER: Disease control in barley (2024)
POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
Disease management - 2023
POSTER: Disease control in barley (2023)
POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2023)
Disease management - 2022
POSTER: Monitoring yield response to fungicides (2022)
Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
POSTER: fungicide management (2022)
POSTER: Septoria surveillance (2022)
POSTER: Monitoring disease race changes in yellow rust (2022)
POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
POSTER: Developing an early warning system for wheat rust (2022)
Disease management - 2021
Disease management - 2020
Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping
POSTER: Crops for the future (2024)
POSTER: Increasing carbon capture in grasslands (2024)
POSTER: Increasing carbon capture through cropping (2024)
Oilseeds, pulses & break crops
POSTER: CSFB lifecycle (2023)
Oilseeds, pulses & break crops 2022
POSTER: Alternative protein crops & sources (2022)
POSTER: cabbage stem flea beetle 2022
POSTER: Oilseed rape variety choice (2022)
Oilseeds, pulses & break crops 2021
Oilseeds, pulses & break crops 2020
Soils and farming systems
POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
POSTER: Assessing the soil at the Cereals Event (2024)
POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
Soils and farming systems 2020-23
POSTER: Saxmundham experimental site (2023)
POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
STAR Online Seminar 2021
Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
Video: Soil health assessment (2021)
Poster: Controlled Traffic Farming (2020)
VIDEO: Conservation agriculture (2020)
VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
Video: Conservation agriculture - a farmer's view (2020)
Video: Cover crops, living mulch and leys (2020)
Video: Improving soil (2020)
Webinar: CFE soils, water, wildlife & profit (2020)
Webinar: Sensors & biostimulants (2020)
Webinar: Soil health & circular economy (2020)
Poster: Cover crops (2020)
Climate change & sustainability
POSTER: More wheat/ha tackles climate change (2024)
POSTER: Wheat production & climate change (2021)
Weed management
Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2023)
POSTER: herbicide resistance surveys (2023)
POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2022)
Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
Video: Inter-row cultivations for black-grass control (2020)
Poster: Grass weed management (2020)
Video: Wild oat seed sampling (2020)
Plant breeding and genetics
POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2024)
POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
POSTER: Domestic chickpea production (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
Fruit crops
POSTER: Alternative control of apple scab (2024)
POSTER: Brown marmorated stink bug (2024)
POSTER: Forest bug on apple (2024)
POSTER: Landscape impact on pollination (2023)
POSTER: Novel control of apple canker (2023)
Potatoes
Seed certification and variety testing
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)
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