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Available to all - access the online PDF version of Issue 51 - Winter 2022/23, featuring a special on cereal crop genetics

NIAB Landmark: Winter 2022/23

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Legislation to be debated by Peers in the House of Lords over the coming weeks could help unlock the UK’s global leadership in plant genetic science, and encourage additional investment in research to help address the most pressing agricultural challenges of today.

Image caption: Opening the new Pepsico oat quality laboratory at NIAB. From left to right: NIAB Head of Analytical Services Helen Appleyard, PepsiCo Research Director Professor Ian Puddephat, PepsiCo R&D Director Mac McWilliam, NIAB CEO Professor Mario Caccamo and PepsiCo Senior Scientist Peter Bright.

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The Barsby Building and The Powell Building, named after Professor Tina Barsby and Professor Wayne Powell, are part of NIAB’s recently redeveloped Park Farm site on the outskirts of Cambridge.

NIAB has announced that Professor Xiangming Xu has become Director of Research.

Formerly Head of Science at NIAB’s horticultural centre at East Malling in Kent, Professor Xu is now responsible for developing and delivering the strategy for research activities across the whole of NIAB. This is in addition to his role in co-ordinating research activities at East Malling.

Available to all - access the online PDF version of Issue 50 - Autumn 2022.

NIAB Landmark: Autumn 2022

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This year’s programme aims to address many of the challenges facing UK agriculture on the theme ‘Providing policy and regulatory support for multi-functional UK agriculture’.

As ever there will be an array of technical and informative sessions targeted at regulators, industry and academia who work in the crop protection and crop production industry. High class and informed speakers will take an in-depth look at the current challenges facing UK agriculture and provide some solutions and insight into the way forward.

Since its foundation by a Deed of Trust in 1919, NIAB has been honoured to have Royal support and is immensely proud that The Queen was our Patron for the past 70 years.

The initiative is part of the new £32 million Defra-funded Future Farming Resilience Fund programme, helping farmers prepare for the Agricultural Transition, which will see direct support payments reduce to zero by 2027. From October 2022 until March 2025, farmers will be able to access free advice and support to help their business adapt to the challenges caused by food supply chain pressures, rising input costs, extreme weather events and the changes to agricultural support.

The Israeli Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Oded Forer, visited the research station at NIAB’s East Malling site and a leading strawberry grower in Kent to explore the UK’s agri-food sector, on Thursday 30 June.

Coordinated by Growing Kent & Medway, the visit enabled the Minister to discover the modern science and technology being developed at NIAB, and explore how cooperation in agriculture technology could be enhanced between Israel and the UK.