Staff working in this area:
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Crops and Livestock
Much of the School's crop and livestock research is based at the Henfaes Research Centre, located 10 km east of Bangor. This consists of a 49 ha experimental farm which includes a 17 ha silvo-pastoral agroforestry experiment, field crop sites, glasshouses, laboratories and lowland pastures, and a 209 ha upland sheep farm. The sheep enterprise part of the farm is constituted as the financially autonomous Centre for Hill and Upland Management. We collaborate with the university's , a leader in the biorefining of crops.
Current research interests include:
- investigation of in-vessel anaerobic bioreduction of livestock carcasses
- re-use of wastes for agricultural purposes including anaerobic digestion effluents, aerobic composts and biochar
- breeding and genetic analysis of for human nutrition, particularly for its high beta-glucan content
- agronomy and physiology of pulse and cereal crops
- studies of epidemiology and genetics of late blight (Phytophthora infestans) on potato and outdoor tomatoes
- molecular breeding in rice for water-limited environments
- animal production, food hygiene and zoonoses
- tree-crop interactions in agroforestry systems