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

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

Lunch and PhD/early career Posters

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 Farming
• 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 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