News
See below for the latest news from the Warwick Crop Centre.
For our latest publications see Crop Centre in Print
Kat Hayles presenting at carrot technical seminar
Kat Hayles, a PhD student at Warwick Crop Centre, will be giving a presentation entitled 'Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae to enable disease management in carrots' at the AHDB Horticulture/BCGA Carrot Technical Seminar on 22 March.
Dave Chandler speaking at Oxford Real Farming Conference on 6th January
Dave Chandler is taking part in a debate about biopesticides in a session entitled 'Biopesticides under the microscope' at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on 6th January. Programme.
MSc agronomy students win Syngenta fungicide challenge
The 2014/15 MSc Sustainable Crop production students won the Warwick area Syngenta fungicide challenge. The challenge involves taking on groups of local farmers and agronomists to plan the most cost effective fungicide programme for winter wheat. The plan devised by the Warwick students returned a winter wheat yield of 13.4 t/ha. Harry Tricklebank collected the cup on behalf of the year cohort.