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Research projects - agriculture
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Horticultural crop research
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Research projects - horticulture
- Augmented Berry Vision
- BEESPOKE
- Boosting brassica nutrition in smart growing systems
- CTP for Fruit Crop Research
- Develop user-friendly nutrient demand models
- Egg laying deterrents for spotted wing drosophila
- Enhancing the nutritional quality of tomatoes
- Improving berry harvest forecasts and productivity
- Improving vineyard soil health through groundcover management
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- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
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Research projects - horticulture
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Training
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Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
- Advanced crop management of vegetable brassicas
- Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
- Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
- Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
- Developing a Successful Strategy for Spring Crops
- Disease Management and Control in Cereal Crops
- Improving Soil Organic Matter and Farm Carbon Management
- Incorporating SFI options into your rotation
- Protected Environment Horticulture – Best Practice
- Techniques for better pest management in combinable crops
- Crop inspector and seed certification
- Licensed seed sampling
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Technical agronomy training
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Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
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Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
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Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
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Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
- POSTER: Pulse crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Wheat crop identification (2023)
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Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
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Technical agronomy training
Niab runs a suite of training courses focused on boosting the technical skills needed by farmers, growers, agronomists and the supply chain to improve crop production. Scroll through the available courses and book one today.
For any enquiries about technical training courses, please send us an email on [email protected]
The Nematicide Stewardship e-learning course can be found on Niab's digital training platform. Please create a new account to access the course.
| COURSE CODE | COURSE TITLE | LOCATION | COURSE DATE | PRICE | BOOKING |
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| CPD01 | NRoSO sprayer operator - classroom | (Niab Technical Training) Lower Norton Farm,, Winchester, SO21 3NE | 12/11/2025 | £60.00 | Book |
| CPD02 | NRoSO sprayer operator - online | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 20/11/2025 | £40.00 | Book |
| PR01 | Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 13/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| PR31 | Exploring winter and spring wheat agronomy | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 14/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| PR04 | Profitable growing of vegetable brassicas | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 14/01/2026 | £235.00 | Book |
| PR32 | Developing a successful strategy for spring crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 15/01/2026 | £115.00 | Book |
| PR35 | Best practice protected environment horticulture/CEA | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 20/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| CP15 | Techniques for better management of insect pests in combinable crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 20/01/2026 | £115.00 | Book |
| SW09 | Roots - soil interaction | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 21/01/2026 | £135.00 | Book |
| PR08 | Optimising crop management of bulb onions | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 21/01/2026 | £235.00 | Book |
| PR06 | Optimising crop management of leafy salads | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 22/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| FB06 | Gross margin budgeting and management | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 27/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| SW01 | Essentials of good soil management | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 28/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| PR23 | Best practice onion storage | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Boston, PE20 1QJ | 28/01/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| NM04 | Understanding nutrient management for combinable crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 04/02/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| FB11 | On farm spatial and temporal data sets – for management and monitoring on arable farms | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 04/02/2026 | £115.00 | Book |
| FB12 | Designing and conducting on - farm crop trials | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 04/02/2026 | £115.00 | Book |
| PR37 | Underutilised and alternative break crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 05/02/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| PR38 | Basics of precision agriculture | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Malton, YO17 6AP | 06/02/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| NM01 | Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 10/02/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| CP13 | Disease management and control in cereal crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 11/02/2026 | £115.00 | Book |
| PR36 | Integrating herbal leys in arable systems - species selection, establishment and management | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 12/02/2026 | £235.00 | Book |
| FB09 | Exploring regenerative agriculture | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 24/02/2026 | £235.00 | Book |
| SW07 | Improving soil organic matter and farm carbon management | (Niab Technical Training) - Online | 26/02/2026 | £235.00 | Book |
| PR27 | Best practice for cover crops in arable systems | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 03/03/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| CP04 | Advanced disease management and control in cereal crops | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 04/03/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| FB13 | Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 05/03/2026 | £270.00 | Book |
| PR13 | Measuring and monitoring potato crops for enhanced crop performance | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 11/03/2026 | £135.00 | Book |
| PR16 | Understanding potato crop growth stages | (Niab Technical Training) - Classroom, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ | 11/03/2026 | £135.00 | Book |
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