Join us at the AFBI Grass Open Day on 21 June at AFBI Loughgall! bit.ly/3p474Bl Enjoy a tour of grass variety and sward mixture plots and hear from researchers and industry reps presenting the latest research on grass varieties and sward mixtures bit.ly/3CpMgHp

It was great to join the H2020 INVITE project Annual Meeting 2023 to discuss improving European variety testing together. #H2020 #VarietyTesting #CropResearch

Dr Lisa Black from AFBI Crossnacreevy presents at the last stop on the AFBI Grass Open Day tour #AFBIGrass23 with some key messages from the event. You can download the Proceedings from the day here: bit.ly/3Ppquvd #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch #Grass #Sustainability

As the 2023 AFBI Grass Open Day #AFBIGrass23 draws to a close Dr Lisa Black, Head of AFBI Crossnacreevy sums up a successful event which highlighted important research. We hope everyone attending enjoyed the day and took home some useful messages to help them going forward #AFBIScience

AFBI & IGFS welcomes the Irish Plant Scientists’ Association Meeting #IPSAM2023 to Belfast. Delegates attend this important annual meeting to share the very latest plant science #research #QueensAFBIAlliance #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch

We begin #IPSAM2023 with the first session on Pathology & Plant Pests, chaired by Fiona Doohan University College Dublin, Richard O’Hanlon Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine & Archie Murchie AFBI. #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch #QueensAFBIAlliance

Paul Cottney of AFBI Crossnacreevy talking about #IPSAM

Delighted to welcome the Irish Plant Scientists’ Association Meeting #IPSAM2023 to Queen's University Belfast 🎓, discussing the latest research in soil and plant science. We're co-hosting with AFBI and looking forward to an excellent 2-day programme. #plantscience #soilscience #qubafbialliance

Superb end to first day of #IPSAM2023 conference. IGFS School of Biological Sciences hosted a poster and networking session this evening. Great vibe and some fantastic #plantscience #soilscience research posters. We hand over to AFBI for day 2 with events at Newforge and Crossnacreevy.

Prof Elizabeth Magowan, AFBI Director welcomes #IPSAM2023 delegates to AFBI and looks forward to today’s Day Two programme of events. If you missed Day One Queen's University Belfast 🎓 hosted by IGFS and School of Biological Sciences some images from the day bit.ly/3PAEFxx #AFBIScience

As Day Two of the #IPSAM2023 Conference continues at AFBI Paul Williams IGFS and School of Biological Sciences looks ahead to what has still to come later on today. #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch

#IPSAM2023 delegates are now at AFBI Crossnacreevy for a tour of the field trials research followed by some welcome refreshments. This ends a highly successful two day event jointly hosted by @qubigfs School of Biological Sciences and @afbi_ni. #AFBIScience #AFBIResearch #PlantScience

A nice day to collect some winter oat panicles for the Mycotox-I project! Thankfully it didn’t rain until I was finished! AFBI Crossnacreevy

Great talk this morning by Naoise of AFBI Crossnacreevy and IGFS this morning at the Alltech meeting AFBI Hillsborough on preliminary results from her Mycotox-I PhD project. This work is funded by @daera and DAFM Doohancropslab Prof Chris Elliott OBE

InnoVar partners are looking forward to present their findings on variety testing to stakeholders later in the year at a joint meeting with @INVITE_EU. For notifications & updates, sign up to our newsletters here: h2020innovar.eu/news/newslette…

Join InnoVar_EU and H2020 INVITE project on 28th November and 10th December for Joint Stakeholder Meetings on project outcomes on innovations in variety testing. Both meetings will be in Brussels. Details to follow!

DUS fields AFBI Crossnacreevy looking well in the October sunshine ☀️ AFBI

Great AFBI stand UlsterArableSociety Conference today showcasing work from the Agronomy and Plant Science Branch #arable #novelcrops #plantvarieties InnoVar_EU

Come talk to our PhD students today at the CAFRE Ulster Farmers' Union UlsterArableSociety Conference at Greenpoint today Naoise Mycotox-I

AFBI Loughgall staff, Josh McKitterick, Patrick Prunty and Barrie Walker, led by Dr Christian Pulver, making great headway in @DAERA Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Beyond Peat project developing specifically designed sustainable peat replacements for horticultural crop production #AFBIScience