Dr Ed Dickin
2023
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
Genetic Diversity of Grains
Michael Marriage
Dr Ed Dickin
Fred Price
Dr Phil Howell
This house believes that genetic diversity is key to profitable cereals production in the UK.
Doing the Time: Working Towards the Decriminalisation of our Seeds
Josiah Meldrum
Fred Price
Dr Ed Dickin
Rosy Benson
Charlotte Bickler
Steven Jacobs
John Turner
It’s increasingly well understood that crop diversity holds the answer to many of the pressing problems we face, from resilient food production in the face of climate change to chronic diet-related ill health. But one of the most potent tools at our disposal is currently illegal: the trade in genetically diverse cereal seeds. By their […]