An experienced leader in the food industry, Mr Healy retired from his role as CEO for Samworth Brothers in late 2022, after four years at the helm. Prior to that, he spent 14 years as CEO for Kerry’s consumer foods division, having previously covered several leading management and finance roles with the company. In February 2023, he took the role of chair of the board of Little Moons.
NIAB welcomed a delegation from ISTA to our NIAB Park Farm site outside Cambridge, with tours of our DUS and seed certification field trials, our crop transformation laboratories, a tour of our glasshouses highlighting our cereal pre-breeding research, our analytical services laboratories and the work of the Official Seed Testing Service in seed analysis and testing.
Katia will be based at NIAB’s horticultural research site at East Malling, Kent.
TCEA is increasingly being deployed as both a research tool and a platform for crop production. NIAB’s research programme aims to improve production efficiency and fruit quality in TCEA soft fruit growing systems, and to determine how conventional glasshouse and polytunnel growing systems could also benefit from this research.
This will be one of multiple Earth Fund Centres working together with other institutions and industry partners in a $100 million commitment to developing sustainable protein alternatives and expanding consumer choice, as part of an overall $1 billion commitment to food transformation.
From Potatoe Cyst Nematode to how does potato growing fit into regenerative agriculture, the potato industry in the UK is facing several challenges. In this short video recorded for the first International Day of the Potato, NIAB's Research Development Manager for Potatoes, Peter Craven explains what he thinks the biggest challenges are, and how NIAB is addressing those challenges:
This maintains NIAB’s Royal Patronage from the reigning monarch going back to the days of our first patron, King George VI. The late Queen Elizabeth II was our Patron for the entirety of her long reign, visiting NIAB on three occasions.
Available to all - access the online flip-book and downloadable PDF versions of Issue 55 – Spring 2024.
In this issue:
The annual in-house award, initiated by former NIAB Trustee Bentley Nelstrop, celebrates exceptional contribution to innovation and enterprise by an individual or a team from within NIAB.
Tricia’s contributions have been central to NIAB’s ability to remain an integral part of the statutory and Recommended List trials systems for sugar beet, maize, pulse, herbage and a whole host of minor crops whose popularity has ebbed and flowed over the past 50+ years.
Belinda is NIAB's Head of Research and Oenology, working at the Wine Innovation Centre at East Malling in Kent. Here she provides scientific leadership in viticulture and oenology research and development of the Wine Innovation Centre.
In this short video, part of NIAB's Meet the scientist series, Belinda discusses her love of wine, why all aspects of viticulture fascinate her and gives her top tips for anyone looking to get in to viticulture and oenlogy.
What are (and could be if crop area expands/ as a result of climate change) the main pest, disease and weed challenges for the most likely UK paludiculture crops (reed, typha, sphagnum, ….)?
Are there food/feed crops that should be prioritised for agronomy/breeding development for paludiculture systems in the UK?
If you have any quick thoughts on these questions, then please get in touch via colin.peters [at] niab.com
