Dr Kerrie Farrar is to be the new Germinal chair of translational plant breeding at Aberystwyth University, a position funded by Openfolde - the parent company of Germinal Horizon and Germinal GB & Ireland. Dr Farrar, who has been...
A new public: private network, funded by government, is aiming to bring a wider range of crop plants into the UK agri-food chain. The Novel and Underutilised Crop Network (NUCNet) is funded through UK Research and Innovation’s...
The Agri-Tech Centres are evaluating a technology replicating lightning’s ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen in water, which could lead to local fertiliser production using low emission renewable electricity. The concept seeks to...
The UK government announced the establishment of a new UK research centre, to help increase food security in the developing world, at the Global Food Security Summit in London last month. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the...
A meat tax, advocated by some bodies as a climate change mitigation measure, would actually cost the wider economy, finds a Rothamsted report. Instead, a more balanced approach could see grazing ruminant production restricted to the most suitable land areas. The work...
A group of research bodies are collaborating to establish a UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank (UK-CMCB) to establish a benchmark for future soil health and crop yield work. The project, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, will be led by...