BCPC JOINT EXPERT REVIEW 2025 – Changing Practices

Rothamsted Conference Centre
Event fee: £45.00+VAT

This year the BCPC Weeds Review, Diseases Review, and Pests and Beneficials Review were combined into a single event, on 27 November.

Presentations available on YouTube
Click here for BCPC Joint Review Playlist.

Or to view powerpoint slides only click on the session headline below.

Chairman’s introduction:  Sir Peter Kendall
Setting the Scene: Prof Paul Wilson, Nottingham University

Session 1: Changing Practices

• Defra Update on IPM and Pesticide Resistance – Holly Alpren, Defra
• Is regenerative agriculture compatible with sustainable crop protection? – Jonathan Storkey, Rothamsted
• Regenerative Agriculture research at the Allerton Project – Jenny Bussell, Allerton Project
• ‘Green Grassland Corridor’ and beneficial insects – Patrick Barker – EJ Barker & Sons

Session 2: Solutions & New Technologies

• Precision Breeding – Opportunities & Challenges for UK farmers – Tom Allen-Stevens, BOFIN
• Dyson Farming: Past, Present and Future – Ben Abell, Dyson
• Agriculture, AI and Robotics  – Simon Pearson, Lincolnshire Institute for AgriFood Technology

Panel Discussion & Q&A

PhD/early career Posters

• Understanding true eyespot disease of cereals: past, present & future – Fareed Bhatti
• Understanding the genetic source of resistance against the Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) in a resistant wheat variety – Iza Sandoval-Carvajal
• Fungal spore dispersal in UK arable crop systems under current and future environmental conditions – Patrick McClean
• Modelling regional scale fungicide resistance in Septoria tritici blotch with heterogeneous grower behaviour to inform resistance management – Iona McCabe
• Effects of environmental factors and pathogen populations on severity of light leaf spot on oilseed rape’  – Javeria Wajid
• ENIGMA I – Wireworm IPM project – Larissa Collins
• Can Tomato Ketch-up to S. dulcamara’s R.solanacearum resistance? – Kelis Fisher
• Stem diseases of wheat – Bela Fistric

Previous Disease Review presentations can be viewed from the links below

• The 10th Annual BCPC Diseases Review will take place 15 October 2024 at the Sophi Taylor Building, Cambridge.
• The 9th Annual BCPC Diseases Review –  Disease Control: Balancing Food Security & Environmental Responsibility – took place 17 October 2023, at the Sophi Taylor Building, NIAB, Cambridge. Details of the programme and speaker presentations from the event can be found here
• The 8th Annual BCPC Diseases Review – Changing Challenges and Changing tools for Integrated Crop Management – was held 19 October 2022, at the Sophi Taylor Building, NIAB, Cambridge. Details of the programme and speaker presentations from the event can be found here
• The 7th Annual BCPC Diseases Review was held as a virtual event. Details of the programme and speaker presentations from the event can be found here 
• The 6th Annual BCPC Diseases Review was held as a virtual event. Details of the programme and speaker presentations from the event can be found here