Key Challenge event – Growing whatever the weather
June 26th, 2013 10:00 AM
Investigating the impact of unpredictable weather events and warming climate on water availability – floods and drought – and pests and diseases in crop plants. What might a climate-resilient crop of the future look like?
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Full programme
This flagship workshop event is aimed at providing our academic partners with a platform to engage directly with small to medium size businesses (SMEs). We want to inspire an effective and productive two-way dialogue that helps our academic and industry partners to understand how they can best work together.
10:00 - 10:15 Registration and coffee
10:15 - 10:30 Welcome and Introduction to NIAB Innovation Farm
Dr Lydia Smith - Head of NIAB Innovation farm
Presentations
10.30 - 11.00 Projecting future weather and climate variations using the UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) Report
Professor Philip Jones – Director, Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia
11.00 - 11.30 Arable crop disease control, climate change and food security
Professor Bruce Fitt – University of Hertfordshire
11.30 - 12.00 Implications of recent weather extremes & future climate change for crop production in the UK
Dr Judith Irwin – Cluster Leader, Crop Genetics, JIC
12.00 - 12.30 Climate change and insects: a double whammy
Dr Richard Harrington – Head, Rothamsted Insect Survey, Rothamsted Research
13.00 - 14.00 Networking and Lunch
Field presentations
14.05 - 14.15 Can flowering time adapt wheat to a warming world
Dr Alison Bentley – Senior Scientist, NIAB
14.20 - 14.35 Findings from the yield plateau study
Stuart Knight – Director of Crops and Agronomy, NIAB
14.35 - 14.55 WIN-Weather based monitoring and modelling solutions
Dr Neal Evans – Director, CropSave
15.00 - 16.00 Innovation Farm exhibits
