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Agronomists, farmers and growers can benefit from a new training academy which will help keep people working in agricultural businesses of all sizes up to date with the latest industry technologies and techniques.

Officially launching today at Cereals, the Agri-tech Register and Training for Innovation and Skills (ARTIS) academy is unlike other training programmes currently available.

NIAB is leading a £2 million Defra-funded research project to identify the most effective practices and test potential new farming systems to increase farm productivity while reducing environmental impacts and enhancing ecosystem services.

‘Project 1 – Integrated Farm Management for improved economic, environmental and social performance’ is one of three studies forming Defra’s £4.5 million Sustainable Intensification Research Platform, known as SIP.

Due to the current complex and diverse nature of the yellow rust race situation in the UK, it has not been possible to identify more than two diversification groups – those varieties that are resistant as adult plants to all of the pathotypes identified from the UKCPVS data, and those that are susceptible to one or more of them.

NIAB has released an updated information flyer on its resynthesised, or superwheat, wheat breeding programme - download the PDF here

NIAB is leading a project to provide a home for the growing agri-tech industry in the East of England, thanks to a £0.5 million investment from the Eastern Agri-Tech Initiative, created by the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and partners.

Access the latest independent advice and research on plant breeding, varieties, crop agronomy, soils and plant innovation with an afternoon of indoor seminars, exhibits and field and glasshouse demonstrations.

From root to shoot

As part of National Science Week NIAB staff spent a day in the Downing Street Plant Science marquee at the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival, with over 2,000 members of the general public visiting the exhibits and finding out more about plants and their physiology.

An extension of authorisation for minor use for Avadex Excel 15G (tri-allate) for use on spring wheat has been given to NIAB by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate.

The EAMU is welcome news for growers as spring crops represent a very important non-chemical approach to grass weed management and can be a particularly successful component of black-grass management on farm. Avadex Excel 15G, the granular form of the herbicide, can be applied pre-emergence of weeds and the spring wheat crop at 15 kg/ha.

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Stand summary

The latest independent advice and research on plant breeding, varieties, crop agronomy, soils and plant innovation – covering everything a visitor to Cereals 2014 is looking for, including: