Current Issues & News...........
Bruce Knight recently prepared the following article on developments in sugar cane production for Crop Protection Monthly, based on interviews with Syngenta managers in Europe and Brazil
Other recent articles by Bruce Knight.....
Biofuels: Their impact on crop production world
wide
Bruce Knight delivered this paper at the Association of Applied
Biologists conference: Non Food Uses of Crops, Wyboston Lakes
Conference Centre, Bedfordshire, May 10-11, 2010
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The Food Market in Turmoil - strategies for
survival and growth.......
This April 2009 conference addressed several of the global and
national issues that are affecting food supply and marketing as a
result of the volatility of raw material prices, and changes in
consumer purchasing patterns.
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World Biofuels Forum
A conference held in June in Prague brought together a range of
organisations involved in biofuel production. In Europe the industry is
facing something of a crisis as subsidised biofuels and vegetable oils
from the Americas are being dumped on the market. Several European
companies have gone out of business before the industry has really got
going. Meanwhile the European Commission is trying to establish rules
for sustainable production of biofuels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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