Dr Ed Dickin
2024
Dr Edward Dickin is a lecturer in crop physiology at Harper Adams University. His research interests include crops for human health, especially naked (hulless) barley and has experience of multi-disciplinary projects, including the long-term traffic and tillage experiment at HAU, and the Horizon 2020 CROPDIVA (Climate Resilient Orphan croPs for increased DIVersity in Agriculture) project beginning September 2021; the HAU contribution being work on food traits of naked barley and cereal and legume intercropping. He is also a BASIS qualified agronomist.
He is a founding member of the UK Grain Lab, a network of breeders, millers and bakers working with non-commodity grains and runs side projects breeding populations of bread wheat and rivet wheat. He is a partner in the family farm in Lincolnshire, a small conventional mixed farm.
My Sessions
Imagining a New Cereal Seed System With UK Grain Lab
Josiah Meldrum
Dr Ed Dickin
John Turner
Fred Price
Steven Jacobs
Imagining a new cereal seed system with UK Grain Lab The current seed system emerged in the 20th century to feed people, protect farmers from disreputable merchants, recognise and protect the efforts of plant breeders and drive innovation. Over time legislation and regulation emerged to codify and protect it. Though it delivers at scale and […]