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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. .

The 2014/15 MSc Sustainable Crop production students won the ÌÇÐÄTV 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 ÌÇÐÄTV students returned a winter wheat yield of 13.4 t/ha. Harry Tricklebank collected the cup on behalf of the year cohort.

School of Life Sciences PhD student Kathryn Hayles, won both the awarded for best student poster at the British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting 2015, and the best student poster award at the recent , with her poster entitled 'Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae to enable disease management in carrot crops'.