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About the HGCA research consultation

The HGCA research consultation was launched at the 2013 HGCA Agronomists’ Conference in December.

It looks to identify arable business priorities that can be addressed through research and/or knowledge transfer.

The cornerstone of the consultation was a research questionnaire enclosed with the Spring 2014 edition of Grain Outlook. The questionnaire closed on 30 June and received around 1,000 responses.

HGCA staff also attended numerous events to discuss priorities, including Cereals 2014 where visitors voted to ‘fine-tune’ investment in selected priority research areas by placing HGCA stickers on our interactive voting wall.

Over 700 votes were cast and nutrient targeting, septoria forecasting, cover/companion cropping and low input varieties were all identified as areas warranting further investigation by HGCA.

We are now analysing all of the responses and the new HGCA research priorities for the next 5 years will be launched in January 2015.

If you would like to find out more or want to provide more detailed comments on future research priorities for HGCA, please email us at [email protected]

Investing in Innovation

The current ‘Investing in Innovation’ research strategy, which ends this year, is based on industry priorities identified during the 2010 consultation.

By listening to growers, agronomists and other stakeholders, HGCA has, so far, targeted £13.5m across 70 diverse research projects with major research programmes on soil, grain quality and disease and investment in the HGCA Recommended Lists.

For further information, See the Autumn 2013 edition of Grain Outlook.