An industry consortium, led by Berry Gardens Growers Ltd and NIAB EMR, has won a BBSRC collaborative training partnership (CTP) award to provide a £1.9 million postgraduate programme for scientific research on fruit crops.
Another regional office address change for our NIAB TAG trials teams. The south-east regional field trials centre has moved to our NIAB EMR site at East Malling, after many years around Adisham and Wye.
The relocation is a natural move with the facilities and trials land available at NIAB EMR. Trials managers Lorenzo Borleanu and Gloria Endredi are looking forward to welcoming members and customers to the site.
Ian Mackay, head of quantitative genetics at the UK crop research organisation NIAB, has been appointed a Visiting Professor at The University of East Anglia.
Unusually high levels of wheat yellow rust, observed in AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) trials during 2016, have resulted in an early and major revision to disease ratings.
The new ratings, issued 11 October 2016, affect Groups 3 and 4 winter wheat varieties, with some ratings reduced by as much as four points.
Booking is now open for NIAB's popular two-week postgraduate level training course 'Quantitative methods inplant breeding' introducing participants to methods in quantitative genetics and statistics.
NIAB TAG's north-west regional field trials centre moved to a new site in Lilleshall, near Telford, on 1st October 2016.
The relocation, after 92 years based at the Harper Adams University campus, is due to change in the nature of the field trials being carried out in the region. Current or future projects with HAU carry on as normal. Centre manager Cathy Johnson and trials manager Joe Davies are looking forward to the new opportunities a change in location, to just a few miles down the road, bring about.
The new address, which will be known as 'NIAB TAG Telford', is:
Jim Godfrey succeeded Jeremy Lewis as Chairman of the NIAB Board
at the AGM on 15 September 2016.
Jim is a director of RJ & AE Godfrey, a family farming business in North Lincolnshire with 4,000 ha of arable crops and a successful indoor pig unit with 6,500 sows, producing 165,000 pigs each year for customers including Morrison’s.
?Farmers who use cover crops report increased yields, according to new study
?Kellogg’s farmers involved in study say soil health improved
?Findings shared with 3,000 farmers and experts through the ‘cover crop cook book’
A ground-breaking study has revealed that cover cropping can increase crop yields, boost soil health and bring about a range of environmental benefits.
Nine new first-choice varieties have been added to the British Society of Plant Breeder’s 2017 Forage Maize Descriptive Lists (DL), alongside 14 new varieties on the Forage Maize for Anaerobic Digestion DLs.
UK crop research organisation NIAB has appointed Dr Roger Carline as Commercial Director, with immediate effect.
