Chloe Cragg

Come and see us on Stand 44, Hall 1 at The CropTec Show, 

East of England Showground, Peterborough

CropTec is the essential technical and business event for arable and mixed farmers, agronomists, business advisers, suppliers and scientists to challenge and discuss the best ways forward to remain profitable. As the UK’s leading technical and knowledge exchange event for the arable farming industry, this two-day show provides the ideal chance to explore ways to improve efficiency and reduce unit costs of production.

Through its unique combination of exhibitor stands, seminars and knowledge hubs, come to the CropTec show for an unmissable insight into new technology and cutting edge agronomy. Discuss best business practices with likeminded farmers and a wide range of relevant exhibitors. Join those who want to learn, invest in and implement strategies to combat the effects of the increasingly dynamic, uncertain and competitive world of global crop production. Discover how you can tackle the challenges that UK farmers are facing and the latest solutions to increasing yield, improving efficiency and reducing those all-important unit costs of production.

Visit us in Hall 1 at Stand 44 to learn more about our services including, our routine crop testing services, nematology testing, advanced CropMonitorTM technology and insect monitoring capabilities. You’ll also receive 10% discount on our Spraing test (test code VR00017) and our rapid direct tuber tests:

Rapid direct tuber test for virus in Potato (PVY)
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CropMonitor™

CropMonitor™ offers monitoring and real time data to help you maximise yields and minimise waste. To identify risks to your crops, you need to understand the current geographic distribution of pathogens and pests and how they spread. Fera is in a unique position to collate and interpret this data, from a network of monitoring sites across the UK. All the latest data is disseminated online via CropMonitor™.

This essential data empowers you to make accurate decisions about when and where to use crop treatments, avoiding overuse and ensuring the treatment is appropriate to the current risk levels.

Fera and CHAP are pleased to announce that CropMonitor will be launching a new pest and disease risk forecasting service for potatoes in May. We are looking for volunteers to be part of a network of surveillance to report appearance of first symptoms in crops. Data will be collected from registered users via a mobile phone during the decision period for potato blight disease management. All data will be plotted in real-time on a map of the UK.

This new service is part of Fera’s CropMonitor platform with direct support from CHAP, is currently being extended and updated to form the core platform for a new national capability in decision support. The new service will deliver risk forecasts for pests and diseases of potato (launched in May), wheat, barley, oilseed rape using a bespoke weather monitoring network, national pest and disease surveillance data and advanced risk models.

The BCPC Congress 2018 will consider emerging regulatory and environmental policy direction, and examine how this can stimulate and support beneficial changes in farming practice, to provide benefits for both food production and public good.

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Find out why Fera is at the forefront of bee ecotoxicology testing

Assistant Bee Ecotoxicologist at Fera Science, Emma Wright, will be discussing our recent advances in bee ecotoxicology including our adult honey bee chronic toxicity studies and why our in-vitro honey bee larval toxicity tests are consistently achieving high emergence rates in the controls (22 day end point). Click here for more information on our bee ecotoxicology services.

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Interested in attending the BCPC Congress?

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Join us on stand 14 at the Crop Innovations and Regulations Event, 

Barcelona, Spain

More than just a chemical regulation conference; it is the meeting place for regulatory, registration, human health, toxicology and product stewardship professionals across the chemical industry looking to create new business opportunities and hear the most complete and up-to-date coverage of European regulations on chemicals. CIR is as much a networking event as a scientific exchange of ideas which draws people together who wish to make a difference. 

As part of this year's event Fera will be updating our fellow colleagues and peers on the E-Flows facility based at Sand Hutton in York.

Dr Rachel Benstead, Senior Aquatic Ecotoxicologist at Fera Science, will be presenting her abstract on the E-Flows mesocosm on Wednesday 5th September at 11.15am. She will be focusing on, the configuration and capabilities of the E-Flows mesocosm, a proposal for validating the exposure scenarios and finally she will be discussing what is useful and relevant for regulation.

Dr Andrew McEwen, Strategic Business Development Manager at Fera Science, is also confirmed to speak on 6th September at 3pm and will be presenting his abstract titled My Family and Other Animals: Comparative Requirements for Human and Animal Metabolism Studies. 

Don't miss out and book your place today

E-Flows is The Edge-of-Field Waterbody Safety Assessment Facility - The First Fully Flow-through Field Scale Mesocosm

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View the plans

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CHAPs Edge-of-field Waterbody Safety Assessment Facility (E-Flows), supported by Innovate UK and developed, designed, managed & operated by Fera is to be a state of the art mesocosm providing a realistic test bed for higher tier regulatory risk assessment. The E-Flows mesocosm will be the first fully flow-through mesocosm exposure facility in Europe giving access to multiple fully flow-through streams at a field scale, which can safely receive compounds at the rates predicted to occur in the environment by models. The mesocosm will have the capability to perform controlled pulse doses for accurate realistic-to-worst-case exposures. It will have sufficient replication to reduce variation and produce reportable data against minimum detectable differences for statistical robustness and will be continuously supplied with high grade ground water, set in a high diversity wetland to ensure sufficient diversity and allow eco-recovery.

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Discover more about the Mesocosm

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Take a look at our latest Mesocosm photos

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Register now to receive 25% discount with Fera's promotional code: CQ8214FERA*

Click here to register

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VAT at 21% - NOTE: The VAT rate is subject to change and may differ from the advertised rate. The amount you are charged will be determined when your invoice is raised.

The EUROTOX 2018 Scientific Programme Committee has prepared an exciting scientific programme, highlighting the latest research results and trends in the field of toxicology. The theme reflects a willingness and enthusiasm to offer a really innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme. Offering attractive lectures and sessions with well-balanced inputs from academia, industry and regulators.

The theme for 2018 is “Toxicology Out of the Box”. It reflects a willingness and enthusiasm to offer a really innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme.

Andrew McEwen will be attending on behalf of Fera and will also be presenting the poster titled: "My Family and Other Animals: Comparative Requirements for Human and Animal Metabolism Studies.” The poster (No. P19-12) will be allocated under the ‘Regulatory Toxicology’ section of poster viewing 2 on Tuesday 4^th September.

Interested in attending?

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•  Ian Boyd (Defra) - "Science underlying pesticides policy"
•  John Haley (UKWIR) - "Metaldehyde - 10 years of progress"
•  Steve Ellis (ADAS) - "How much slug damage can crops tolerate"
•  Richard Reynolds (Anglia Water) - "Managing Metaldehyde:Anglia Waters experience"
•  Tom Bradshaw (NFU) - "An integrated approach to slug control"
•  James Moir (York University) - "Selection and characterisation of diverse metaldehyde-degrading bacteria reveal a novel shared degradation pathway"
•  Liana King (Newcastle University) - "Bioengineering metaldehyde removal"
•  Alexandra Cooke (Severn Trent Water) - "Farm to Tap: Can catchment management deliver metaldehyde water quality improvements?"
•  Carmel Ramwell (Fera Science & IAFRI) - "Environmental fate of molluscicides"
•  Colin Brown (York University) - "Presence of metaldehyde in rainfall: evidence and interpretation"
•  James Shucksmith (University of Sheffield) - "Forecasting surface water metaldehyde levels in drinking water catchments following rainfall events"
•  Gordon Port (Newcastle University) - "The problem with pellets: A slug’s eye view"
•  Andrew Benniston (IAFRI) - "Binding and detection of Metaldehyde in water"
•  David Werner - TBC
•  Frazer Black (CHAP) - TBC

Attendance at the conference is free.