Current Issues & News...........

Bruce Knight recently published the following articles:-

Fifteen years of Innovation Management.
Since 1993, agriculture and the market environment has changed. The short feature picks out some of the significant differences in the agri- business landscape, then and now.

If GM crops are ever accepted, how will they help the British farmer ?
A number of experts, including Sir David King, former Government Chief Scientist, have recently highlighted the implication for UK agriculture and Science if the benefits of agricultural biotechnology are not applied. An edited version of this article was published in the March issue of Crop Production Magazine.

Matching the Food, Energy and Environmental Challenge.
The annual Sentry Conference, held near Cambridge in February 2008, included a keynote presentation by Robert Thompson, Professor of Agricultural Policy, Illinois University. A report on his wide ranging talk on the challenges facing world agriculture was published in Crop Protection Monthly (www.crop-protection-monthly.co.uk)