Many thanks to @Hodmedods who sent me these beauties yesterday in their capacity as Official Pea Supplier to the World Peashooting Championship. Can youhit the bullseye? Come to Witcham and try on July 11th from 11:30am, registration already open worldpeashoot.com/

Home-grown soybean is difficult. Hottest UK summer on record. In foreground maturity group ‘0000’ variety starting to split pods tho seed still slightly chewy and first pods touching soil. In background typical US variety with big biomass, but barely started flowering here

Shed some blood, sweat and tears setting up then working at Whittlesford, good times. Best wishes to the WW (and GBMA WB) teams

35 yrs ago I went on a formative field trip to West Wales with ⁦@MickyLachmann⁩, @dave_baxter⁩ etc; transect all day and pub all night. Last week we learned Micky died in a climbing accident, so I raise a commemorative Double Dragon to him and to youthful optimism 🍻

Miss you, Mac

This #InternationalPotatoDay let’s get behind the great research that’s going into making the crop more resistant to pests and diseases ⁦@niabgroup⁩ ⁦@cupgra⁩ ⁦@jonathandgjones⁩

Privileged to be one of two ⁦@niabgroup⁩ keynote speakers alongside Ji Zhou at a ⁦⁦@novonordiskfond⁩ project meeting in sunny Denmark

Fancy working on practical soultions to combat a fascinating fungal disease? Great new 4-year PhD opportunity @niabgroup & @plantsci but skates on, it's a short deadline! Unfortunately this is only open to UK applicants. See link in original post for details