News
See below for the latest news from the Warwick Crop Centre.
For our latest publications see Crop Centre in Print
New AHDB reports on brassica and carrot pests
The final reports for two Warwick Crop Centre projects have just been published on the AHDB website. They are:
FV 416b - Brassicas: Treatments to control cabbage root fly giving the results of our work on application of treatments in modules, cabbage root fly activity and control in the south-west, and the use of mesh on swedes
FV 445 - Carrots: Optimising control of willow-carrot aphid and carrot fly gives up to date action points for control of these pests and the effect of chemical treatments on aphids, carrot fly and virus levels in the crop.
Pollinator workshop at Warwick featured on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today
A workshop on pollinators led by Dr Martine Barons and Professor Jim Smith from the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick was featured on BBC Radion 4's Farming Today programme this morning. The podcast can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076nzh9. More details about the research can be found here.
New Centre For Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) established in UK
The 24 March 2016 saw the launch of a new Centre for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) established under the government’s Agri-Tech strategy, which was initiated in 2013 to ensure that its investment in agriculture delivers material benefits for society and the economy in the UK and overseas.
CHAP will lead the way in developing solutions to the challenges facing world agriculture, bringing together the best expertise, knowledge and insight from leading research organisations and industries in the sector. This collaboration between academia and industry will, for the first time, give farmers access to the best and most sustainable technologies, strategies and protocols to improve crop performance, making a real difference at the farm gate.
University of Warwick researchers will be developing novel control technologies to tackle a range of pests and diseases that are responsible for significant crop losses in fresh produce. The number of active ingredients available to growers is decreasing all the time, so the demand for novel control technologies with minimal environmental impacts has never been greater. Potential new products and approaches to their application will be evaluated and refined in Warwick’s controlled environment and field trial facilities, and integrated into commercially viable crop management strategies.