Don't miss workshops with our scientists at #Groundswell2026 next week 📅Wednesday 🪴Optimising plant protection 📅Thursday 🪴Beneficial Insects for Crop Pest Control 🪴Insect safari: Soil Saviours, Flower Friends & Crop Champions 🪴8 Minute Ideas on Diversification

We've been collecting weather data from our Harpenden site since 1853, capturing many memorable national weather events. Access data here: https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/# As weather becomes more extreme, we're working on more resilient crops to help towards food security. #heatwave #climatechange

Congratulations Martin! Find out more about Martin's work here: www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/prof-ma...

How can we prepare our crops for extreme heat? Find out what researchers at Rothamsted and SugaROx are doing -👂 from 18:18 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002xgww

Just 2 weeks to go until #Groundswell2026! Speak to our scientists about their research on: 🪴DIVERSITY 🪴LIVESTOCK INTERGRATION 🪴PROTECTING SOIL SURFACE 🪴MINIMUM SOIL DISTURBANCE 🪴MAINTAINING LIVING ROOTS Plus earn BASIS points! #RegenerativeAgriculture

Listen to Dr Kelly Jowett and Charlotte Robb discussing new tools to ID carabid beetles on BBC Farming Today! 👂From 5:17 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002xnqr

The Rank Prize for Nutrition goes to Profs David Salt @uniofnottingham.bsky.social & Martin Broadley @rothamsted.ac.uk for their pioneering work on elemental profiling to improve soil and crop quality, enhancing nutrition and health outcomes for people worldwide ➡️ www.rankprize.org/prize/nutrit...

We had a fantastic time speaking to farmers at #Cereals2026! Not only did we get to share our latest research, but also hear from farmers about the issues that matter to them. Have your say: https://ow.ly/nsXS50Zb4mA#Cereals2026 Missed us? ✉️Send us a message 🪴Find us at #Groundswell2026

Day one at #Cereals2026 ✅ Didn’t speak to us today? We’ll be at stand 1046 tomorrow where our scientists are eager to hear your experiences and teach you the latest in resilient farming. ✅PLUS earn BASIS points

🌍 How do we balance food production with biodiversity? Explore the role of insects in sustainable landscapes at #SustainableFarming SIG 2026 Register by 1 July to secure your spot at the conference 🔽 buff.ly/YuaaDhF #Pollinators #SustainableAgriculture #Entomology

🌾 Visit stand 1046 at #Cereals2026 to explore the latest science and farming innovations - plus earn BASIS points 🌱 Soil health & carbon 🧬 Precision-bred crops 🦠 Crop diseases & fungicide resistance 🐜 Aphids, BYDV & wireworms 🤖 AI-powered pathogen detection

Researchers from the UK and #Zimbabwe have launched a new project that will explore how historical approaches to land evaluation continue to shape agriculture today and how indigenous knowledge can help support future climate adaptation. Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/interna...

Scientists from Rothamsted and Sorex Sensors have showcased pioneering pest detection technology that was awarded a Gold Medal and ‘Best GreenSTEM Exhibit’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show as part of an exhibit led by APHA. Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/pest-de...

Field work is in full swing at Rothamsted! Watch Dr Patrick Lehr and our Scanalyzer team up to phenotype this field of wheat - in hopes of learning more about nutrient use efficiency.

New study shows crop species, and not soil type, primarily determines the beneficial functions provided by root-associated microbes. Full story👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/plants-predictably-select-growth-boosting-microbes-regardless-soil-type

Curious about trying natural pest control? Listen to Charlotte and Sam on the latest RPA podcast - they've been researching integrated pest management and how farmers can reduce their reliance on pesticides https://ruralpayments.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/19/the-rural-payments-agency-podcast-episode-15/

Scientists at Rothamsted have developed a new screening pipeline that could help accelerate the search for future fungicide leads - meaning faster responses to emerging crop diseases🌾 Full story👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/new-pipeline-accelerate-fungicide-discovery-developed-rothamsted

Sarah Perryman at @rothamsted.bsky.social is looking for help in the field & in the lab for the survey. Expert #botanists are welcome but not necessarily required. So if you live nearby & can #volunteer for a day or 2, email her: [email protected] #Hertfordshire #Botany 🌏

How do bacteria move through soil and plants? Hitching rides on “fungal highways”... Find out more👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungi-act-highways-bacteria-new-tools-reveal-how-microbes-travel-together-crops

A major milestone for UK gene editing 🧬🌱 We have drilled the first UK crop to receive a PBO Release Notice under the new regulatory framework. Scientists are exploring ways to increase seed size, yield and oil content in camelina👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothams...

Great to be drilling our GM camelina again, to determine the real-world resilience of our nutritional enhancement traits. This is the 13th consecutive year we have run GM camelina trials at @rothamsted.bsky.social, we like long term experiments!

At Rothamsted, we work with farmers to develop and adopt new on-farm innovations. ADOPT is a great opportunity to fund these innovations and applications are now open! bit.ly/adoptsupport... Check out current projects for inspiration too! bit.ly/adoptprojects #farming #agriculture

In June 2020, Graham McAuliffe & Laura Cardenas from @rothamsted.bsky.social wrote a #blog on the North Wyke Farm Platform #LTE @thefarmplatform.bsky.social #NWFP where Paul Harris is running the #nutrients experiment on #grassland. Read it here: bit.ly/3oIbfP9 @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social 🌏

Converting grassland to arable farming risks soil health and water quality🚜 Using long-term, field scale data from our Farm Platform in Devon, we found soil organic matter ⬇️45%, soil carbon and nitrogen ⬇️41%, phosphorus ⬇️ 61%👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/convert...

🌾 Arable farmers, we need your voice 📣 Drought and blackgrass are two of the biggest pressures in arable farming right now. We want to know what's actually happening on your farm, and what's working. Anonymous | 15 mins to complete 👇 https://gre.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6YDfIax1GVJ5Kui #wheat

England’s farms have reduced their environmental footprint over past decade, according to new modelling, though reductions vary widely between regions👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/farmings-environmental-footprint-shrinks-progress-uneven-across-england-1

Scientists have uncovered a previously hidden chemical dialogue in the soil that could open new strategies for managing wireworms, a major pest of maize, wheat, and potatoes 👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/secret-life-roots-how-plants-signal-pests-belowground #farming #agriculture #maize

Only 1 week left to apply for two summer studentship opportunities at Rothamsted: -Temperature and flooding stress on crop pathogen survival -Wheat genetics and wireworm infection responses www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...

A low-cost forensic method developed by Rothamsted to track sediment pollution is being adopted by the Environment Agency, marking a significant step forward in protecting water quality👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothamsted-research-forensic-science-adopted-environment-agency

Do you work with crop disease and pathology trials data? Please take 15 minutes to complete the survey below to help shape the future of FAIR data in plant sciences. forms.office.com/pages/respon... #plantpathology #cropdisease #plantscience

Applications for paid summer research projects from the Royal Society of Biology are now open, closing 28th April! Work with leading plant health researchers on 8-10 week placements, including Rothamsted. Apply now: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health-ug-studentships.html #studentship #internship

📣FARMERS📣 We need your help for 20 minutes, so we can help you for years to come! This survey will help us discover how monitoring beneficial insects in farmland should be carried out 🪲 Please share with your networks👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... #regenag #farming #biodiversity

🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞 Nigel Halford - Rothamsted Research, UK @rothamsted.bsky.social 🧬 Reducing the acrylamide-forming potential of wheat, from fertilisation rates and disease control to CRISPR #plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social

Our next webinar will be all 'aabout' plant genome editing, as part of our new PlantEd series! 📅 Tuesday 21 April 🕚️ 11AM BST | 12PM CET | 7PM KST 🧬 Feat. talks from: Tien Vu Van @tienvu.bsky.social Natasha Brock @rothamsted.bsky.social Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/ASJiGhm #plantscience

Nice to see comments from Helen Metcalfe on glysophate in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/campaigners-demand-action-break-uk-addiction-to-glyphosate-herbicide

And it's drilled! GE barley seeds with increased lipid content, the first crop to receive a Precision Bred Organism marketing notice, are in the ground. Find out more👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothamsted-gene-edited-barley-crop-becomes-first-receive-uk-precision-bred-organism-marketing

From willow & miscanthus agronomy, to harvest demos, come along to the next Biomass Open Day in Tadcaster 🕤14th April, 9:30–13:30 📚 BASIS points applied 🔗 https://www.carboncapturecropping.com/news-and-events-1/biomass-open-day #biomass #BASIS

Scientists have successfully developed wheat with dramatically reduced levels of asparagine using gene editing, offering a promising route to safer food production and improved regulatory compliance👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ultra-low-asparagine-wheat-developed-using-precision-gene-editing

We are pleased to announce that Professor Martin Broadley has been appointed as interim CEO at Rothamsted Research. Full story 👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/professor-martin-broadley-becomes-interim-ceo-rothamsted-research

We have a new webpage on the #LongTermExperiment #LTE Broadbalk which is being led by Andy Gregory at @rothamsted.bsky.social‬. Learn about this experiment as well as its scientific impacts, & its historic background: bit.ly/Broadbalk @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social 🌏

Rothamsted gene-edited barley crop becomes first to receive a UK Precision Bred Organism marketing notice 🎉 By increasing lipid content in plant tissues, the barley provides a high-energy forage crop for ruminant livestock, improving feed efficiency👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/rothams...

UKCEH and @rothamsted.bsky.social modelling shows how climate change could reshape GB’s rivers/farms by 2050. Findings: river nutrients ↑20–30%, ↑ west coast fluxes (3–10%), ↓ east (3–13%), 5-20% drop in most arable yields, 20% boost in maize yields Read more: agzeroplus.org.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

A pleasure to host the Agri Food Charities Partnership today - a network of organisations helping to train the next generation of agri scientists. Thank you to all the speakers!

Scientists have discovered that chemicals produced by beetle larvae can directly stimulate harmful bacteria that damage oak trees, revealing a previously unknown mechanism driving tree disease. Full story 👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/beetle-larvae-turn-tree-bacteria-oak-killing-pathogens

Delighted to announce 5 fully funded #EngineeringBiology #PhD studentship opportunities "Training the next generation of Engineering Biologists for the delivery of green bio-based production (EngBio4GBP)" with Royal Holloway, Reading and @rothamsted.bsky.social To apply, visit: bit.ly/4lrSxrH

It was a huge pleasure to attend the UK-ASEAN Symposium on #PrecisionBreeding in Hanoi this week, to represent @rothamsted.bsky.social latest work on gene edited crops. Great to meet lots of new people and hear about their research- looking forward to some fruitful new interactions.

It was a pleasure to attend #BritishScienceWeek in Parliament where Ondrej, Grace, and Apple spoke to MPs about our research tackling hidden hunger and malnutrition - alongside many other British research institutions.

Join us at The Royal Society where we will cover all aspects of meiosis studies over 2 days! Featuring our plenary speaker Dr Valérie Borde, CNRS. Register before 31st March: https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/event/xvi-british-meiosis-meeting #dna #conference #genetics

NEW! 4 years UKRI and Industry funded PhD studentship in @devotolab.bsky.social, @Syngenta, @rothamsted.bsky.social for a UK home student. To apply www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her... Project info www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Enquiries: [email protected], www.Devotolab.org

A new cycle begins as calves arrive at the North Wyke Farm Platform 🐮Our scientists will be monitoring their impact on soil health, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions, comparing arable cropping to livestock systems. Data available at: https://nw-farmplatform.rothamsted.ac.uk/