Rothamsted Research
@Rothamsted
World's oldest agricultural research institute (established 1843). We develop environmentally sustainable solutions for food and energy production.
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http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/ 06-11-2009 11:44:54
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Want to learn some science Herts County Show? Come and find us in the farming and countryside area 👨🔬👩🌾
2 weeks to go until we're opening the gates to our unique research farm as part of @openfarmsunday ! Explore the agricultural experiments taking place across our 300Ha farm on foot or by tractor🚜
Book the free tractor trailer tour: tickettailor.com/events/rothams…
#hertfordshire
What are you waiting for?! Share your knowledge on #fungicides #herbicides #pesticides at #Resistance2024
Submit your offer for a poster/presentation to [email protected]
For more info 👇
rothamsted.ac.uk/event/resistan…
#IPM #farming #agriculture #CropProtection
Come and find us at Herts County Show this weekend!
👨🔬Meet our scientists
💩Try your hand at dung beetle derby
🪱Dig for worms
🔬Peek down a microscope
🐝See a world without pollinators 😱
#hertfordshire #hertsshow
Very happy with the article on Farmers Weekly about our #Grazing experiment in Rothamsted Research 🐄🐂☘️🌱Currently in its seventh season!
👉fwi.co.uk/livestock/gras…
Precision Grazing Ltd Dr Sarah Morgan BSAS Farm-PEP Sarah Morgan Agri-Tech Cornwall Judith Tooth glten_ag GlobalFarmPlatform
A fantastic PhD opportunity and chance to collaborate with our Wheat Pathogenomics Lab Rothamsted Research Wheat Pathogenomics !
Enjoyed talking about GE, acrylamide and fibre Rothamsted Research with Food and Drink Federation yesterday, with a wet visit to the GE wheat field trial
Swifts: amazing acrobatic insect feeders; but did you know that the bugs they hunt are often the same ones that farmers are keen to control? A win-win for conservation and crop protection? 🪲 🌱🐦⬛Hannah Romanowski Kelly Jowett Dion Garrett
Full story 👇
rothamsted.ac.uk/news/swifts-ha…
2/5 Results from Park Grass shows how managing the #pH can improve crop yields as well as #biodiversity . This #LTE is managed by Rothamsted Research & it has been going since 1856. bit.ly/ParkGrass #InternationalBiodiversityDay
Our UK-wide insect survey is unique, with samples dating back to 1964 - but it is quite time consuming to manually identify all the species...could DNA metabarcoding speed up the process? 🧬🐜🪳🐝New paper from Sciences at Newcastle Dimitris Petsopoulos 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ed…
So pleased to have Royal Entomological Society visit Rothamsted Research yesterday! Here with the incredibly brilliant taxonomists at Rothamsted Research_RIS celebrating 60 years of continuous, standardised monitoring of migrating insects (especially aphids)!!
Kelp for farmers - Great to be a part of this project to produce liquid biostimulants and animal feed supplements from cultivated kelp with UK Agri-Tech Centre Harper Adams University Innovate UK and Algapelago
ukagritechcentre.com/news/initiativ…