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Article

The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control

They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids

23 Sep 2022

Article

THE BIG PICTURE: THE WATER DETECTIVES TRACKING POLLUTION BY ITS COLOUR

Tracking pollution sources involves hi tech kit and know how - that was until now

23 Sep 2022

Article

KICKING THE HABIT: PESTICIDES

Does farming need to go cold turkey? Part 2 of our series.

23 Sep 2022

Article

KICKING THE HABIT: LIVESTOCK FARMS

Does farming need to go cold turkey? Part 4 of our series.

23 Sep 2022

Article

KICKING THE HABIT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Does farming need to go cold turkey? The last part in our series.

23 Sep 2022

Article

KICKING THE HABIT: FERTILISERS

Does farming need to go cold turkey? Part 3 of our series.

23 Sep 2022

Article

KICKING THE HABIT

Does farming need to go cold turkey? Part 1 of our series.

23 Sep 2022

Article

In LTE we trust

Three Rothamsted long term experiments are now supported by the Ecological Continuity Trust

23 Sep 2022

Article

GE Field Trial: Low Asparagine Wheat Q&A

Find out more about our proposed trials of gene edited (GE) wheat.

23 Sep 2022

Science

Field trialling GM and GE crops at Rothamsted

Throughout the last year, field trials of GM and GE crops have continued at Rothamsted despite the various lockdowns and other restrictions that have hampered progress elsewhere.

23 Sep 2022

Blog

Fact or Fake News: is our food becoming less nutritious?

Twittersphere reports we need to eat twice as much broccoli

23 Sep 2022

Video

Don't let the perfect, be the enemy of the good

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when it is other people’s…

23 Sep 2022

Article

Does Genome Editing cause unintended consequences?

Rather than ask if genome editing leads to unintended genetic consequences, it’s better to ask if it leads to more changes, and the answer to that is no.

23 Sep 2022

Article

WRITING A KILLER PITCH FOR YOUR INNOVATION

Writing a killer pitch for your innovation

7 Sep 2022

Article

SPINNING OUT

Starting a business can be high risk-high reward, and the ups and downs make it both exciting and challenging. No two days are the same and you never really know what is round the next corner.

7 Sep 2022

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Library and Information Services' (LIS) activities are clustered into six strategic themes: information resource discovery & management; heritage collections; analytics, compliance & reporting; research information management; PhD support and knowledge management. Rothamsted Library and Information Services (LIS) manages one of the oldest specialist agricultural library collections in the UK. The collections located in Harpenden reflect the Institute's research interests with books and journals in soil science, plant sciences, agronomy, entomology (including apiculture), nematology, pesticide science, plant diseases, mycology and biomathematics.

The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control

THE BIG PICTURE: THE WATER DETECTIVES TRACKING POLLUTION BY ITS COLOUR

KICKING THE HABIT: PESTICIDES

KICKING THE HABIT: LIVESTOCK FARMS

KICKING THE HABIT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

KICKING THE HABIT: FERTILISERS

KICKING THE HABIT

In LTE we trust

GE Field Trial: Low Asparagine Wheat Q&A

Field trialling GM and GE crops at Rothamsted

Fact or Fake News: is our food becoming less nutritious?

Don't let the perfect, be the enemy of the good

Does Genome Editing cause unintended consequences?

WRITING A KILLER PITCH FOR YOUR INNOVATION

SPINNING OUT

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