BCPC JOINT EXPERT REVIEW 2025 – Changing Practices

Thursday 27 November 2025
Rothamsted Conference Centre
Event fee: £45.00+VAT

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

Farming practices are having to balance the numerous pressures of food production, climate change, government policy and the environment while also managing a sustainable and profitable business. These pressures impact how weeds, diseases and pests are managed and the Expert Groups have pulled together a programme of speakers who will share their experiences of how crop production practices are adapting to integrate changing cultivation methods, biocontrols and new technologies.

The presentations will aim to inform, educate and as always spark plenty of discussion amongst the attendees. Spaces will be limited and as a past invitee/attendee to the Expert Reviews this is a priority invitation to book your seat.

Programme Highlights

Registration: 0930
Chairman’s introduction:  Sir Peter Kendall
Setting the Scene: Prof Paul Wilson, Nottingham University

Session 1: Changing Practices

• Holly Alpren, Defra
• Jonathan Storkey, Rothamsted
• Jenny Bussell, Allerton Project
• Brian Barker, Barker Bros

Lunch and PhD/early career Posters

Session 2: Solutions & New Technologies

• New Breeding Techniques (Tom Allen-Stevens, BOFIN)
• Ben Abell, Dyson
• Simon Pearson, Lincolnshire Institute for AgriFood Technology

Panel Discussion & Q&A

To accommodate the broader coverage of this year’s Review, we have moved venues to Rothamsted Conference Centre. While this will increase the capacity for delegate numbers, attendance will still be on a first-come first-served.

This event is by invitation. If you have not received an invitation and would like to attend please use the contact form.

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