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 were combined into a single event, on 27 November.

Programme

Registration: 0930
Chairman’s introduction 10.00:  Sir Peter Kendall
Setting the Scene 10.15: Prof Paul Wilson, Nottingham University

Session 1: Changing Practices

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

13.10: Lunch and 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

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
• Simon Pearson, Lincolnshire Institute for AgriFood Technology

Panel Discussion & Q&A

Previous Weed Review presentations can be viewed from the links below:

• The 61st Annual BCPC Weed Review took place on 31 October 2024. To view the presentations click here
• The 60th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on 2 November 2023, to view the presentations click here
• The 59th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on 3 November 2022 – To access the speaker presentations click here
• The 58th Annual BCPC Weed Review took place VIRTUALLY on 4 November 2021 – the full event can be viewed via You Tube via this link: https://youtu.be/r6cj46MJ_qQ
• The 57th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place VIRTUALLY on 2 December 2020 – To access the speaker presentations click here 
• The 56th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on 14 November 2019 – To access speaker presentations click here
• The 55th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on 7 November 2018 – To access the speaker presentations  click here
• The 54th Annual BCPC Weeds Review took place on 9 November 2017 – To access the speaker presentations click here