Niab’s David Hunt showcases the facilities and equipment in the OSTS to ISTA President Keshavulu Kunusoth

A look back at ISTA's Centenary celebrations

18 Nov 2024
Blog
by Helen Appleyard
Rows of wheat

Why farm productivity matters

24 Oct 2024
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
Maize trial

Maize soil nitrogen supply

21 Aug 2024
Blog
by Ellie Roberts
The MacLeod Complex

Farm24 Highlights: Exploring NIAB's Innovative Work Beyond the Field

8 Aug 2024
Blog
by Emma Smith
NIAB staff member talking at an event in front of a poster, while holding some wheat plants

Putting our plant science into practice this summer

20 May 2024
Blog
by Ros Lloyd
Industrial Hemp

Carbon capture cropping

7 May 2024
Blog
by Jasmine Toole
Tractor driving through wheat variety Recommended List trials at Morley, Norfolk

The importance of translating plant science into practice

29 Apr 2024
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
AI-based trait indentification from wheat images - in this case counting wheat ears

Using artificial intelligence for variety identification

19 Apr 2024
Blog
Close up of wheat ear in a field

A tale of two professors

10 Apr 2024
Blog
Saxmundham trials site May 2023

Long-term value in long-term experiments

2 Apr 2024
Blog
by David Clarke
2nd instar nymphs are camouflaged on tree bark copyright Jonathan Michaelson

Progress towards forest bug control

18 Mar 2024
Blog
by Scott Raffle
Winter cereal DUS trials at NIAB Park Farm on the outskirts of Cambridge

New technology in DUS testing

29 Feb 2024
Blog
by Dr Margaret Wallace
Spotted wing drosophilia on a leaf

Recent advances in Spotted Wing Drosophila control in fruit crops

14 Feb 2024
Blog
by Dr Michelle Fountain
Flooded fields and farm house from the River Aire during a large flood after a storm.

Weathering the perfect storm

13 Feb 2024
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
Lentil trial at NIAB

Making the most of pulses

8 Feb 2024
Blog
by Dr Phil Howell
Alternatives to peat, from right to left: Top – vermiculite, clay balls and perlite; Bottom – coir, peat-free, peat reduced with woodfibre

Alternatives to peat for horticulture

29 Jan 2024
Blog
Typical canker damager causing death to an apple tree

Novel approaches to controlling apple canker

16 Jan 2024
Blog
by Scott Raffle
Harvesting reeds for thatching at Cley, Norfolk

Supporting and developing paludiculture in the UK

4 Jan 2024
Blog
Common reed and fenland landscape

Redesigning lowland peat landscapes with farmers

8 Dec 2023
Blog
by Dr Elizabeth Stockdale
Fenladn landscape

It’s a triple challenge for lowland peat

1 Dec 2023
Blog
by Dr Elizabeth Stockdale
Nathan Morris, Jack Poulden and Eda Knight standing in wheat trials

Assessing the environmental impact of wheat production under regenerative agriculture practices

23 Nov 2023
Blog
by Dr Stéphanie Swarbreck
Examples of bicropping and alternative crops showcased on the NIAB stand at the 2023 Cereals Event.

Regenerative agriculture – hype or hope?

24 Oct 2023
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
CTP-SAI Students at their 2023 Summer Conference

Training the next generation of applied bioscientists

11 Aug 2023
Blog
by Dr Fiona Leigh
Chickpeas (Image from shutterstock.com)

Legume Research at NIAB

30 May 2023
Blog
by Dr Thomas Wood
NIAB staff member talking to farmers in a wheat field at a NIAB Open Day

Putting our plant science into practice this summer

15 May 2023
Blog
by Ros Lloyd
Wheat growing in a field

New Bill fast-tracks future crop development

11 May 2023
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
Julian Westaway presenting at the BCPC Annual Congress 2022

BCPC - promoting the science behind sustainable crop production

16 Mar 2023
Blog
View of differing cereal plots

Old and new approaches to crop genetic innovation

11 Jan 2023
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo
Contrasting winter wheat ear-rows

Working towards a diverse UK wheat landscape

9 Jan 2023
Blog
Adult male spotted wing drosophila with characteristic spots on its wings

Continued progress in SWD management

5 Jan 2023
Blog
NIAB Regional Agronomist Gary Rackham talking to a NIAB Member

Responding to emerging challenges in 2021/22 - A review of NIAB agronomy membership services

18 Nov 2022
Blog
by Andrew Watson
Winter wheat and field beans bi-cropping. Image by John Pawsey.

A science-led approach to regenerative farming

24 Oct 2022
Blog
by Professor Mario Caccamo

HM Queen Elizabeth II and NIAB

16 Sep 2022
Blog
by Kevin Middleton
Fertiliser spreading

Reducing nitrogen demand while maintaining yields

10 May 2022
Blog
Soil sample on a spade

Orson's Oracle: Is measuring soil mineral nitrogen worthwhile?

28 Mar 2022
Blog
Septoria on a wheat leaf

Fungicide resistance management: Maximising the effective life of plant protection products

15 Dec 2021
Blog
Pollen beetles damaging spring rape racemes (Alan Dewar)

Thresholds to behold

22 Feb 2021
Blog

Orson's Oracle: Thresholds to nowhere??

3 Feb 2021
Blog

Orson's Oracle: Taking the pledge

8 Jan 2021
Blog
Craig Livingstone and his team

The benefits of NIAB TAG membership

24 Nov 2020
Blog
by Kevin Middleton
A bare fallow just starting to green up near Cambridge at the end of July 2020.

Orson's Oracle: We was robbed by the climate change lobby!

25 Aug 2020
Blog

Orson's Oracle: the story of a wheat grain

30 Mar 2020
Blog
Dr Bethan Shaw

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Bethan Shaw

11 Feb 2020
Blog
Felicidad Fernandez

International Day of Women in Science: Felicidad Fernandez

11 Feb 2020
Blog
Dr Suzanne Litthauer

International Day of Women in Science: Suzanne Litthauer

11 Feb 2020
Blog

Winter wheat yields 2019 and 2020

17 Jan 2020
Blog

Orson's Oracle: 1World Agronomy

10 Dec 2019
Blog

Is it all downhill?

6 Sep 2019
Blog

Light fantastic

30 Apr 2019
Blog

Read this before leaf tissue testing for micronutrients

26 Feb 2019
Blog

Wheat yields 2018

3 Jan 2019
Blog

Looking back to the future

24 Aug 2018
Blog

Wheat yields 2018

13 Jul 2018
Blog

Mind the gap

2 Jul 2018
Blog

Trust but verify

19 Jan 2018
Blog

Who would try to predict wheat yields?

5 Jan 2018
Blog

Changing behaviour of black-grass

15 Dec 2017
Blog

Sustaining conflicting ideas

1 Dec 2017
Blog

Turning the tide

17 Nov 2017
Blog

WHO and ebola, Mugabe and glyphosate

3 Nov 2017
Blog

Slow pace of GMOs in Europe

20 Oct 2017
Blog

Ipomoea and Colonel Gadaffi

6 Oct 2017
Blog

The precautionary principle

22 Sep 2017
Blog

Wheat seed rates

8 Sep 2017
Blog

Stubble management: where is the research?

24 Aug 2017
Blog

Why is life like a Dulux colour chart in monochrome?

16 Aug 2017
Blog
by Andrew Watson

What makes rotations tick?

14 Aug 2017
Blog

The anatomy of high yielding crops

28 Jul 2017
Blog

Wheat harvest 2017

14 Jul 2017
Blog

World wheat record

30 Jun 2017
Blog

Is plant resistance a free lunch?

16 Jun 2017
Blog

Science under pressure

2 Jun 2017
Blog

Spray drift and pesticide legislation

19 May 2017
Blog

What do plants do at night?

5 May 2017
Blog

Where are the dead fish?

21 Apr 2017
Blog

Fake News, Fake Science and GM

31 Mar 2017
Blog

The promoted narrative

17 Mar 2017
Blog

The end of a fairytale

3 Mar 2017
Blog

The return of nature

20 Feb 2017
Blog

High wheat yields; a rollercoaster?

3 Feb 2017
Blog

The real organic revolution

20 Jan 2017
Blog

How to get high wheat yields with nitrogen

7 Jan 2017
Blog

2016 wheat yields – a post mortem

17 Dec 2016
Blog

Peak Wheat

2 Dec 2016
Blog

Isoproturon – the great soil improver

18 Nov 2016
Blog

Nitrogen recommendations – it's very complicated

4 Nov 2016
Blog

Average wheat yields

21 Oct 2016
Blog

Variety choice more important with low yields

7 Oct 2016
Blog

GM or non-GM; it’s the trait silly!

21 Sep 2016
Blog

Over-precautionary principle?

6 Sep 2016
Blog

Disappointing rape yields; causes?

19 Aug 2016
Blog

Tramline thinking

8 Aug 2016
Blog

Brexit exposes lack of agricultural knowledge

22 Jul 2016
Blog

English wheat harvest 2016

8 Jul 2016
Blog

Black-grass votes to remain

24 Jun 2016
Blog

World hunger continues to fall

10 Jun 2016
Blog

Where does all the nitrogen go?

27 May 2016
Blog

Is glyphosate David or Goliath?

13 May 2016
Blog

What is conservation?

29 Apr 2016
Blog

Precision application of nitrogen

15 Apr 2016
Blog

Beware of correlations!

1 Apr 2016
Blog

Preventing broad-leaved weed resistance is a priority

17 Mar 2016
Blog

Silencing scientists?

4 Mar 2016
Blog

Hard science vs. field observation

19 Feb 2016
Blog

Maximum yields versus margins?

5 Feb 2016
Blog

Reducing the risk of glyphosate-resistant black-grass

21 Jan 2016
Blog

Survival of the most resistant

8 Jan 2016
Blog

Warning – abide by pesticide authorisations

18 Dec 2015
Blog

Glyphosate cancer confusion

7 Dec 2015
Blog

Wheat 2015 - the right kind of sunshine?

19 Nov 2015
Blog

IT and reducing pesticides in raw drinking water

16 Nov 2015
Blog

Pesticides in water – meeting the challenge

2 Nov 2015
Blog

Wheat yields – not just a great summer

16 Oct 2015
Blog

The value of a day’s delay

2 Oct 2015
Blog

Top shelf reading

16 Sep 2015
Blog

GM back in the news

3 Sep 2015
Blog

Extreme weather

20 Aug 2015
Blog

The maths of black-grass control

6 Aug 2015
Blog

Black-grass – an apology

23 Jul 2015
Blog

2015 wheat yields

9 Jul 2015
Blog

Observing nature

24 Jun 2015
Blog

Arbuscular mycorrhizae – is it all just hype?

8 Jun 2015
Blog

The cost of less reliable technology

28 May 2015
Blog

El Nino has arrived

13 May 2015
Blog

Black-grass allelopathy nonsense?

30 Apr 2015
Blog

Roundup causing cancer?

20 Apr 2015
Blog

Breaking the yield barrier

9 Apr 2015
Blog

The carbon footprint of your diet

30 Mar 2015
Blog

What’s happening with GM?

17 Mar 2015
Blog

Will glyphosate use be restricted?

4 Mar 2015
Blog

Who’d be a scientist?

18 Feb 2015
Blog

Danger – DNA

6 Feb 2015
Blog

Soil care

28 Jan 2015
Blog

Environmental pressures in the US

28 Jan 2015
Blog
by Patrick Stephenson

The nearest defibrillator is ...

20 Jan 2015
Blog

A challenging future

2 Jan 2015
Blog

Because I say so

18 Dec 2014
Blog

Hazard – EU decision making

4 Dec 2014
Blog

How to make money

20 Nov 2014
Blog

The fuel that refuses to peak

13 Nov 2014
Blog

Hard to believe

5 Nov 2014
Blog

Precautionary principle cuts both ways

17 Oct 2014
Blog

Getting high tech

9 Oct 2014
Blog

Achieving high yields

1 Oct 2014
Blog

Giant slugs and giant problems

23 Sep 2014
Blog

Replacing equipment

17 Sep 2014
Blog

Food sales fall for the first time

8 Sep 2014
Blog

If all else fails – do a trial

28 Aug 2014
Blog

Hope versus fear

22 Aug 2014
Blog

Climate and rotation

13 Aug 2014
Blog

Black-grass, the year of the double whammy

22 Jul 2014
Blog

It’s not every year that…

14 Jul 2014
Blog

2014 wheat yields

7 Jul 2014
Blog

They think it’s all over….

28 Jun 2014
Blog

It’s a small world

17 Jun 2014
Blog

Losing flexibility

6 Jun 2014
Blog

Ex-ministers have their say

22 May 2014
Blog

50 years on

13 May 2014
Blog

Soil back in fashion

1 May 2014
Blog

Jumping to conclusions

17 Apr 2014
Blog

Grasses; mankind’s best friend?

11 Apr 2014
Blog

Spray drift without wind assistance

3 Apr 2014
Blog

In science we trust

24 Mar 2014
Blog

Where are the birdies?

16 Mar 2014
Blog

Winning is everything?

10 Mar 2014
Blog

Change...

27 Feb 2014
Blog

Up in the air?

21 Feb 2014
Blog

Things go better with Coke

13 Feb 2014
Blog

Royal approval

5 Feb 2014
Blog

You can fool some…

29 Jan 2014
Blog

Wheat under pressure from pesticide resistance

22 Jan 2014
Blog

Herbicide resistance in wild oats

14 Jan 2014
Blog

Twelve Days

3 Jan 2014
Blog

IPM - filling an EU legislative gap

20 Dec 2013
Blog

Goodbye KISS?

13 Dec 2013
Blog

What is a legitimate environmental target?

5 Dec 2013
Blog

Nature more effective than black-grass herbicides

27 Nov 2013
Blog

Giving up on organic matter

20 Nov 2013
Blog

Conquering hunger

13 Nov 2013
Blog

Can we afford any more revocations?

5 Nov 2013
Blog

Seeing is believing?

29 Oct 2013
Blog

Science backs straw burning

23 Oct 2013
Blog

Two into one will go

14 Oct 2013
Blog

Micronutrients fail the ‘common sense’ test

2 Oct 2013
Blog

Wheat harvest post-mortem

23 Sep 2013
Blog

Is farming advice too compartmentalised?

12 Sep 2013
Blog

A noisy summer

2 Sep 2013
Blog

Confused over blackgrass

22 Aug 2013
Blog

Harvest progress

15 Aug 2013
Blog

Wheat yields revisited

8 Aug 2013
Blog

Wheat grain fill complete

1 Aug 2013
Blog

Resilience

24 Jul 2013
Blog

Apocalypse postponed

17 Jul 2013
Blog

Half term report

9 Jul 2013
Blog

A poisonous past?

2 Jul 2013
Blog

What's new?

24 Jun 2013
Blog

Burning issue

9 Jun 2013
Blog

Rewarding good practice

26 May 2013
Blog

Who killed Rocky Springs?

17 May 2013
Blog

Breaking news

9 May 2013
Blog

The Impatient Optimist

30 Apr 2013
Blog

Disrupting what?

22 Apr 2013
Blog

A fallow year

14 Apr 2013
Blog

It’s the weather stupid

8 Apr 2013
Blog

Moving on

1 Apr 2013
Blog

Can you take the risk of not using it?

22 Mar 2013
Blog

Insanity

14 Mar 2013
Blog

Foundation of the horsemeat scandal

7 Mar 2013
Blog

Making water wetter

1 Mar 2013
Blog

Have we “got it”?

22 Feb 2013
Blog

Choose trusty sentinels

15 Feb 2013
Blog

Damage limitation

7 Feb 2013
Blog

I am not App.y

30 Jan 2013
Blog

Infamy...again

22 Jan 2013
Blog

Across the pond

22 Jan 2013
Blog
by Patrick Stephenson

Wrong assumptions?

16 Jan 2013
Blog

A golden future

8 Jan 2013
Blog

I don’t believe it!

20 Dec 2012
Blog

Combating disease and nitrates

13 Dec 2012
Blog

Hot winds and cold barbecues

9 Dec 2012
Blog

Resilience – run for cover

28 Nov 2012
Blog

Stagnant yields and stagnant politics

20 Nov 2012
Blog

Meeting the challenge

12 Nov 2012
Blog

Blemishes are back

29 Oct 2012
Blog

Not a lot of people know that

22 Oct 2012
Blog

Sorry

15 Oct 2012
Blog

Is arable farming going to hit the buffers?

4 Oct 2012
Blog

A non-event

28 Sep 2012
Blog

Loose connections

20 Sep 2012
Blog

Dormant good news?

13 Sep 2012
Blog

Field size and biodiversity

3 Sep 2012
Blog

The precautionary principle

23 Aug 2012
Blog

It’s obvious, isn’t it?

15 Aug 2012
Blog

Exceptional!

6 Aug 2012
Blog

Wheat yield prediction for 2012

30 Jul 2012
Blog

Lovely crumbly soil

23 Jul 2012
Blog

Past, present and future of KT

13 Jul 2012
Blog

This year’s wheat yields will be...?

6 Jul 2012
Blog

The bleeding edge?

27 Jun 2012
Blog

A late winner?

18 Jun 2012
Blog

Trust

11 Jun 2012
Blog

Bainton opens up a new day out

11 Jun 2012
Blog
by Nick Watson

Look before you leap!

7 Jun 2012
Blog

Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy

28 May 2012
Blog

The end game?

16 May 2012
Blog

Buffer zones - getting the right balance

9 May 2012
Blog

Return of the rain

2 May 2012
Blog

Pesticide resistance? Darwin rules OK

23 Apr 2012
Blog

Technology with a future

15 Apr 2012
Blog

Lost in translation

5 Apr 2012
Blog

White on white

30 Mar 2012
Blog

Throw away the textbooks

25 Mar 2012
Blog

Europe rules - OK?

16 Mar 2012
Blog

Weeds are a priority

9 Mar 2012
Blog

Solar bliss

29 Feb 2012
Blog

Sweet smelling stubble

23 Feb 2012
Blog

Boring Brits?

16 Feb 2012
Blog

That 70s nostalgia...

9 Feb 2012
Blog

What should be on the label?

3 Feb 2012
Blog

Not as bad as first thought?

24 Jan 2012
Blog

Can N recommendations be improved?

18 Jan 2012
Blog

...and then came the rules

10 Jan 2012
Blog

Reversing the decline

28 Dec 2011
Blog

Is British weather a basket case?

20 Dec 2011
Blog

Trust me; I am a scientist...

14 Dec 2011
Blog

The only good magpie is a...?

6 Dec 2011
Blog

Candidates for confusion?

28 Nov 2011
Blog

What’s in a name?

23 Nov 2011
Blog
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