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Organic crops

These ongoing projects relate to the work that HGCA has commissioned in relation to organic crops. Click on the titles for an upshot of the problem to be addressed, the aims,  the approach and the benefits to the industry. Also will be attached the latest information in the form of Annual Project Reports (APRs), or Interim Reports.

RD-2004-3022 Better Organic Bread Integrating Raw Material and Process Requirements for Organic Bread Production (LK 0960)
The aim of the project is to assist the UK food industry to produce organic bread of good quality using sustainably produced domestically grown organic wheat.

RD-2007-3447 Using legume-based mixtures to enhance the nitrogen use efficiency and economic viability of cropping systems [LK9106]
The project aims are to improve fertility building in organic rotations through use of a mixture of a wide range of leguminous species and to provide more efficient transfer of nitrogen to the subsequent crop

RD-2008-3378 Utilising adaptive winter wheat populations for increased economic and environmental returns
The overall aim of the project is to improve the performance and stability of performance of winter wheat under environmental conditions that are forecast to become more unpredictable and more costly to ameliorate through inputs.

Please click here to see publications that have arisen out of finished projects.