23 - 24 January 2008
A conference covering the potential impacts climate change will have on UK agriculture, how growers can adapt and the opportunities that may be presented.
Complete proceedings from Arable Cropping in a Changing Climate Conference  (1695kb)
"The challenges of change for arable farming: weather, markets, support, climate"
Paper 1 (872kb) / Presentation (55kb)
Peter Kendal, NFU
"Defra's agriculture and climate change policy and research programme"
Paper 2 (122kb) / Presentation (322kb)
Victoria Turner, Defra
"Mitigating climate change: energy, carbon and nitrogen on the farm"
Paper 3 (105kb) / Presentation (2606kb)
Peter Gregory, SCRI
"Using genetic resistance to combat pest and disease threats"
Paper 4 (97kb) / Presentation (2425kb)
Bill Angus, Nickersons
"Breeding cops for winter stress"
Paper 5 (223kb)
Eric Ober, Broom's Barn Research Station
"Can disease management reduce greenhouse gas emissions?"
Paper 6 (121kb)
Neil Paveley, ADAS
"Getting the message across to UK farmers"
Paper 7 (77kb)/ Presentation (336kb)
Katie Zabel, Forum for the future
"Climate change projections for the UK: a farming perspective"
Paper 8 (380kb) / Presentation (1548kb)
Roger Street, UKCIP
"Adapting UK arable agriculture to climate change"
Paper 9 (103kb) / Presentation (1681kb)
Jo Hossell, ADAS
"Tracking changes in distribution of diseases"
Paper 10 (95kb) / Presentation (2324kb)
Judith Turner, CSL
"Climate change and phoma stem canker"
Paper 11 (380kb) / Presentation (2075kb)
Neal Evans, Rothamsted Research
"Control needs for changing pest distributions"
Paper 12 (163kb) / Presentation (2560kb)
Jon Oakley
"Changing weed species and management: then, now and tomorrow"
Paper 13 (205kb) / Presentation (2032kb)
Ken Davies
"UK biodiesel - establishing a 'producer to product' chain"
Paper 14 (72kb) / Presentation (6224kb)
Colin Merritt, Monsanto
"Opportunities for growing crops for biopolymers"
Paper 15 (79kb) / Presentation (1242kb)
John Williams, National Non-Food Crops Centre
"Developing and growing wheat for the biofuels market"
Paper 16 (162kb)
Roger Sylvester-Bradley,ADAS
"Implications for UK Farmers of greenhouse gas reporting under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation"
Paper 17 (111kb)
Jeremy Woods, Imperial College, London
Climate change set to worsen severity of stem canker - Poster (95kb)
Climate Impacts Program UKCIP08 - Poster (879kb
Crop Models and Bioenergy Production - Poster (329kb)
Dormancy in grass weeds - Poster (110kb)
Impacts of changing climate on the timeliness of grain cooling in autumn - Poster (172kb)
Improved winter rape varieties for biolubricants poster - Poster (176kb)
Monitoring risks of mycotoxin contamination - Poster (511kb) | 
