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Four students studying for a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Agriculture at Easton and Otley College have won the 2013 Countrywide NIAB Agronomy Cup competition.

Do you know your apical scur from your lower glume beak? Or whether a ventral furrow hair is present or absent? Due to high demand NIAB has added a second Cereal Crop Inspectors (Part 1) training course from 24th-27th February 2014 at NIAB Cambridge.

Become a qualified crop inspector and book your place now!

Improve your agronomy and crop management skills and knowledge with our classroom-based training courses available at locations across England, with bookings now being taken.

The NIAB National Agronomy Training courses are open to all, including non-members with discounts available for NIAB TAG members, and are suitable for agriculture students, farmers, agronomists and advisors.

The workshops include:

On Friday, October 11, a new Norwich - Cambridge Agri-Tech Cluster will be formally launched, helping to unlock millions of pounds and revolutionise agriculture.

The cluster is aimed at linking the world-class research capability within the two cities with the world class growing land and food and farming sectors in the adjacent rural areas.

NIAB has appointed Dr Eric Ober as a senior research scientist and crop physiologist.

Dr Ober will provide specialist technical expertise in crop physiology on NIAB’s research in genetics and breeding and to the crops and agronomy research and advisory teams.

Eleven new first-choice varieties have been added to the BSPB 2014 Forage Maize Descriptive List.

The varieties Glory and Fieldstar from Limagrain; Ramirez and Severus from KWS; Truxx and Mixxture from RAGT; MAS 11.F from Maisadour Semences; and Aritzo from DLF have been added to the Favourable Descriptive List (DL).

Cambridge-based crop research and innovation centre NIAB has welcomed today’s publication of the UK Agricultural Technologies Strategy as a clear signal that Government is committed to unlocking the economic and productive potential of the UK agri-science base, and to supporting a resilient, hi-tech and globally competitive UK farming sector.

Monsanto's decision to withdraw applications for GM crop cultivation in the EU is a further signal that the European GM approvals process is simply not working, and not surprisingly this is driving investment and research activity by the major commercial players out of the EU, to focus their efforts on those parts of the world which do have functioning regulatory systems and receptive markets.

The Community Resource for Wheat Transformation is a resource for UK plant scientists to apply for their genes to be transformed into wheat free of charge, funded by the BBSRC’s Biological and Bioinformatic Resources (BBR) fund.