Held at Robinson College, Cambridge on
Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 December 2021
2021's conference title was 'Knowledge creates the future', with speakers challenging potato businesses and researchers to develop their vision for the future and to take concrete steps to put it into action on Day 1 and workshops on a range of on-farm production challenges on Day 2. You can now view slides from some of the presentations and also watch the Eric Allen Memorial Lecture.
Presentations from Day 1
Session 1: Exploring the future for potato production
- Where there is no constraint to research and development enabled innovation - Professor Sir David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge
- Getting from here to there – navigating a way to the future for potato businesses - Emily Norton, Savills
Session 2: Innovating the practice of the future
- No-till potatoes - explorations in practice - Richard Harding, Groundswell Agronomy
- Practical steps to reducing emissions in the potato supply chain - James Young, McCain Foods
Eric Allen Memorial Lecture
At the end of Day 1, CUPGRA was especially proud to host the inaugural Eric Allen Memorial Lecture, 'Understanding how potatoes grow determines how to grow potatoes', with reflections from Robert Allen, Neil Gudmestad and Mark Stalham.
Slides
Eric Allen Memorial Lecture - Mark Stalham
Eric Allen Memorial Lecture - Neil Gudmestad
The conference was sponsored by Frontier Agriculture and Grimme UK and organised by NIAB CUF.