Training Course
Underutilised and alternative break crops
5/02/2026
Sophi Taylor Building, Niab, Park Farm, Cambridge, CB24 9NZ
Niab
Understand more about alternative crops and how they can be added into arable rotations
8 BASIS, 8 NRoSO
Trainer: Dr Phil Howell, Dr Lydia Smith, and Jasmine Toole , Niab
Classroom module 1 – Alternative legumes and pulses and, minor crops (half day):
• Pea and faba beans
• Chickpeas, lentils and soy
• Alternative protein sector and activities
• Triticale, rye, durum, buckwheat, quinoa and kernza
• Ahiflower, borage and high value speciality oilseeds
• Bi-cropping
Classroom module 1 – Fibre crops (half day):
• Glasshouse tour to see some of the crops
• Hemp licence
• Hemp agronomy and markets (fibre and oil)
• Flax agronomy and markets
• Limitations and challenges for minor crop agronomy
• Other research and funding opportunities
• Commercial partners
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