📢News: NIAB Vine Club Membership Scheme launched

The NIAB Vine Club will bridge the gap between viticulture plant science and practical application, ensuring members will be the first to benefit from emerging, innovative research. Full story and join ➡️ niab.com/news-views/new…

📢New #Blog : How the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping - a NIAB-led multi-partner project - is working on global challenges for farming and land management, such as reducing emissions and improving resilience to climate change ➡️ ow.ly/HkWH50RB7fa #CHCx3

Join #NIAB this summer working in our busy grain quality testing laboratory. You'll assist the laboratory in delivering grain and produce quality data from national field trials across a wide range of crop species.

Full info and apply ➡️ ow.ly/kINl50RzylL #Vacancy

Herbage seed crop inspectors are at #NIAB today for plot training and examination. Some are refreshing their skills and licence, while some are beginning their career. These inspectors are integral to the seed certification process that ensures quality seed on farm.

Great shot here of how the Cereals Event site is coming on. For more on #NIAB 's plans for Cereals 2024:
📹See a tour of our stand ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=4nGsHj…
👋Read more on what you can expect ➡️niab.com/news-views/new…

New paper💥Now you can make the most of #farm #yield map datasets! Fantastic work led by David Clarke.

A comprehensive framework to process & correct yield map datasets to assess field performance & economic appraisal
#soil #agriculture #DataScience

➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#Vacancy Join #NIAB 's team at East Malling, Kent as one of two Plant Science Research Assistants. You'll focus on developing new growing practices and systems that utilise resources more efficiently and improving productivity.

Full info and apply ➡️ ow.ly/nTkI50Ryk69

We're supporting Plantlife' #NoMowMay at our Park Farm site in Histon, Cambridgeshire. We've been leaving unmown areas around our office buildings, which are already looking great in this week's sunshine!

Tissue sampling on the David Jones SAMS sites this morning as part of YEN - The Yield Enhancement Network. Also Yara International N testing as part of the AHDB Cereals Strategic Farm East Trials looking at spatial variability in NUE. Multiple N response trials across yield map derived management zones. NIAB

📹We're busy preparing the #NIAB stand of this year's Cereals Event. Why not join us on a quick tour of what it looks like at the moment and see what awaits you in June...

Hear from #NIAB 's Elizabeth Stockdale as she speaks to the Agriculture 2050 podcast all about soil health. Listen in 👇

NIAB Landmark spring edition is out now! In this issue:

🧪Translating plant science into practice
🌾Wheat and barley candidates for the Recommended List
🌍The latest on the Sustainable Farming Incentive

and much more! Read or download ➡️ow.ly/Ghk650RqNBM

The 56th meeting of the UPOV technical working party for ornamental plants and forest trees starts today. #NIAB 's Hilary Papworth is chairing the sessions. We wish her and the group well for the week ahead.

NIAB's trials teams from both Kent and Cambridge drilling the Descriptive List (DL) Maize trials in Kent this week. Great effort from both teams to get the drilling done!

🌾 Last week Emily Harrod & Aoife O'Driscoll from NIAB were at our Long Sutton demo site for the #CropDoctor tour, discussing disease pressure in the East and options for T1.

Take a look. 👀 Aoife O' Driscoll 🧫🧬🦠

Our Comms and Events Team have been Cereals Event today, finalising stand plans and being interviewed as part of the Spring Crop Plot Day. For more on what you'll find on the the #NIAB stand this June➡️niab.com/news-views/new…

📢New #Blog : Using artificial intelligence for variety identification

The #NIAB AI/Data Science team outline some of the ways they're utilising AI to identify varieties based on photos as part of the CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative ➡️ ow.ly/zKHW50Rneoz

Join Biomass Connect and #NIAB on 16th May to learn more about SFI Schemes, biodiversity and enhancing biomass crop sustainability. Book your spot 👇