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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Had an incredible time visiting Warminster Maltings today, where 100% of its malt is floor malted, with production dating back to 1855. Bucket list stuff for me, this.

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Rank Prize @rankprize.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Rank Prize for Nutrition goes to Profs David Salt @uniofnottingham.bsky.social & Martin Broadley @rothamsted.ac.uk for their pioneering work on elemental profiling to improve soil and crop quality, enhancing nutrition and health outcomes for people worldwide ➡️ www.rankprize.org/prize/nutrit...

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Can wheat keep up with climate change and food security demands? Simon Griffiths @johninnescentre.bsky.social will explore how precision breeding can transform the future of wheat genetics. IWGSC Webinar: 15 May 2025 at 11 AM EDT! 🔗 Sign up today: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh

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Dr Keith Dawson @farmerukr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It is indeed. Highly surprised it isn't already

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Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Wonderful talk from @delfidorussen.bsky.social at #Monogram2025 about DNA methylation mutants in wheat. You can read the full MET1-1 mutant characterisation which was just published this week @jxbotany.bsky.social ⬇️

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is an interesting read! 'Chromosome-level haplotype-resolved genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relative Aegilops mutica' Grewal, S., Yang, Cy., Krasheninnikova, K. et al. buff.ly/dtiHRE7

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Article, New Scientist, Feb 2021 on carbonised malted barley. Peter Steen Henriksen at the National Museum of Denmark and his colleagues used a scanning electron microscope to examine grains found in several archaeological deposits. Photo of Viking era #malt. 🏺🍺 www.newscientist.com/article/2268...

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Oldest evidence of malted barley shows ancient Scandinavians made beer

Ancient malted barley grains found in Denmark suggest that people there were likely using this to brew beer at least two millennia ago

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Plants for the Future ETP @plants4thefuture.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📢 We Support #NGTs and we want the EU to support them too!🌱 We have called upon people to show their support for New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) to see the EU NGT legislation move forward. 🌟 Show your support by posting your own video, using #ISupportNGTs, and tagging us!

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Roger Protz @rogerprotz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A glimmer of hope for cask ale in the otherwise gloomy landscape of global takeovers. Good luck to the new owners of Jennings & fingers crossed for other ales cast aside by the lager giants.

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It was straw work class last week. The round basket (not mine) was made in the 1970s. Look at the quality of bundling and stitching. The oval baskets are mine, one bere, one oat straw. I prefer to work with bere barley straw. In the past bere straw was as useful as the grain. 🏺 🪡 #straw #baskets

Image from my straw basket class, two of my oval baskets made by the traditional technique of 'bundling' the oat straws together and stitching it together with string. One is finished and contains tools and string, the other is half complete. Also a cup of tea and a newspaper.

One of the group brought in a wonderful oat straw basket made in the 1970s. The stitching is so neat, the basket is very strong and made from bere barley straw. On the right is a glimpse of my basket, also made with bere.

The 1970s bere barley straw basket, showing the base, and my bere straw basket to the right.

Left, oat straw, middle, 1970s bere basket, right my bere basket, background straw workers.

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Germinate Hub @germinate.hutton.ac.uk · 30/01/2025

Based on the #BreedingValue project, we've added new trait data visualizations in the form of radar, bubble and heatmap charts for scale-type traits to highlight the differences or performance of individual germplasm. 3/5

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Germinate Hub @germinate.hutton.ac.uk · 30/01/2025

Finally, we've added another data aggregation view to the statistics page that highlights the contribution of each project partner to the overall database. This both showcases data origins as well as giving credit to all collaborators. 5/5

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

exciting to watch #root #rootforaging #circumnutation and #rootangle formation on soil in darkness - imaged via #IRLEDs and #RaspberryPi camera #plantscience exploring the #hiddenhalf - testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the #DDrC device Simon Pree et al.

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Alison Bentley @alisonrbentley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Our barley queen! Very sad to say farewell to Tammy as she finalises the last of our 2024 #OzBarley samples before she heads back to China. It has been such a joy having her as a member of our team @scienceanu.bsky.social working on improving cereal root & stem architecture!

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Paul Shaw @pauldshaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Our IBH seminars are always interesting and thought provoking (and occasionally not about barley) so why not drop into one - like this one on Thursday or check out the archives on www.barleyhub.org.

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Home - Barley Hub

A centre of excellence in barley research, innovation and knowledge exchange. About barley Barley is the fourth most important cereal crop in the world, grown in more than 100 countries and used for a...

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Mark Ramsden @ipmmark.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📢IPMNET Bulletins are on @FarmPep farmpep.net/resource/ipm... How long does the crop canopy need protecting? (20 min video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5Q... H2020IPMWorks Hub Scotland have been busy, and first IPMNET Conference speakers announced, full agenda soon

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How long does crop canopy need protecting - Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Science & Practice

YouTube video by RSK ADAS

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Cool graphic from KWS on the #GenomeEditing timeline. Impressive how few years passed between the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in a crop plant (2013) to the first release of an edited crop ( #GABATomato ) (2021). Trad. #PlantBreeding can take decades! 😮 www.kws.com/corp/de/inno... #PlantScience

Timeline of genome editing innovations from KWS. Taken from https://www.kws.com/corp/de/innovation/pflanzenzuechtung/zuechtungsmethoden/genome-editing/
It shows 18 steps from 1985 (Entdeckung von Zinkfingernukleasen) to 2021 (Markteinführung der ersten genomeditierten Tomate). 2002 is the first use of CRISPR/Cas9, 2005 the first use of genome editing in plants, 2013 the first use of CRISPR/Cas9 in a crop plant, and then, 2021 the release of the CRISPR-edited GABA-tomato to the Japanese consumer market.

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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

If you are interested in plant stem cell systems, meristems and development of cereals: We are organising an international symposium on "Cereal Meristems and Stem Cell Systems", see attached announcement. www.cscs2025.de for more details

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International Barley Hub @intbarleyhub.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A greener world & excellent career prospects. Apply now for one of our #BARIToNECTP #PhD projects run in partnership with industry Deadline 19th January 2025. For more info visit: baritone.hutton.ac.uk #barley #research

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.ac.uk · 10/01/2025

📢New paper!! A specific "killer" gene appears to protect some fungal threats as they invade wheat. Disarming these defences could offer a pathway to keeping pathogens in check. Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/killer-...

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Good news for the future of UK agriculture

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Jill Cairns @jillec.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Maize #diversity in #Zimbabwe Investigating nutrient content of landraces and biofortified #maize hybrids across different agronomic practices with Dr Grace Kangara from @rothamsted.bsky.social and National Gene Bank of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (with statistical guidance from @geostatlark.bsky.social)

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International Barley Hub @intbarleyhub.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! Looking forward to 2025 in the pursuit of #betterbarley

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Dr Keith Dawson @farmerukr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The wonderful world of plant genetics and diversity

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

On @pelliclemag.com today I've written a piece that discloses our traffic, our finances, a little about our aims for 2025 and why you should be subscribing if you read our content. Give it a read here: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2024/12/29/where-were-going-we-dont-need-roads-pellicles-year-in-numbers

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Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads — Pellicle’s Year In Numbers — Pellicle

The aim of this post is to convince you to become one of our subscribers. If you’re already keen to join us then click here to subscribe via Patreon , and then relax, safe in the knowledge that...

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Peter Hunt @ukwhisky.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

'Into a steep, awkward acre & a half site, they shoehorned all the production side (barley lofts, washbacks, wash charger, wash & spirit still) plus 7 bonded warehouses for 2,500 casks. The worm tub sat on stilts outside, jutting several feet over the river below.'

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Peter Hunt @ukwhisky.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

#OnThisDay 28th December 1922 Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. officially acquires Dean Distillery, Edinburgh. Unfortunately during this time of 'distillery absorption' by the big firms, it is never reopened. #WhiskyHistory Image from: Townsend, B. Scotch Missed (2014)

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Alan Schulman @alanhschulman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"Crown Shyness" is not about royal abdication but rather the tendency of apparently only some tree species to develop dissected canopies in forests. Something new for me!

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

What is malt? Here's a nice explanation of how base malt is made in a modern maltings. A germinating kilning vessel (GKV). Modern equipment. The fundamental process is the same as a malting floor or malt house. Steep, aerate, germinate and carefully kiln. 🍺 #malt #beer theswaen.com/our-craft/th...

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The journey of malt – The Swaen

Are you curious about how our malt is made? Our malting process is no secret. So if you want to know all the ins and outs of our industry, keep … Read more "The journey of malt"

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Defra posted UK #harvest24 production stats on Friday. Below is UK spring barley production in England & Scotland. Interesting Scottish production is stable around the 2Mt level but English fluctuates more widely between 3 and 5Mt. Problems sowing winter crops clearly affect English production.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 19/12/2024

New Resource: "The near-complete genome assembly of hexaploid wild oat reveals its genome evolution and divergence with cultivated oats" rdcu.be/d2gI4 Hexaploid wild oat + 117 global wild and cultivated accessions: large fragment duplication event during domestication.

The near-complete genome of hexaploid wild oat, along with 117 global wild and cultivated accessions, reveals genome divergence between wild and cultivated oats and a large fragment duplication event from chromosomes 4A to 4D during oat domestication.

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Helpful papers for trainees #4: Pot size matters: a meta-analysis of the effects of rooting volume on plant growth This one is for the plant biologists. Experimental design matters! 🧪 🌱 🌏 #PlantBiology #AcademicSky Link: www.publish.csiro.au/fp/FP12049 #PapersForBeginningLearners

The abstract for the paper reads: The majority of experiments in plant biology use plants grown in some kind of container or pot. We conducted a meta-analysis on 65 studies that analysed the effect of pot size on growth and underlying variables. On average, a doubling of the pot size increased biomass production by 43%. Further analysis of pot size effects on the underlying components of growth suggests that reduced growth in smaller pots is caused mainly by a reduction in photosynthesis per unit leaf area, rather than by changes in leaf morphology or biomass allocation. The appropriate pot size will logically depend on the size of the plants growing in them. Based on various lines of evidence we suggest that an appropriate pot size is one in which the plant biomass does not exceed 1 g L–1. In current research practice ~65% of the experiments exceed that threshold. We suggest that researchers need to carefully consider the pot size in their experiments, as small pots may change experimental results and defy the purpose of the experiment.

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Dr Keith Dawson @farmerukr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Tough times for farming and an age crisis for farmers.

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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

... For now, the plot thickens; Flor’s classic ‘gene-for-gene’ hypothesis that has shaped our understanding of plant resistance to pathogens since 1940’s might be an oversimplification we may have to consider that differences in effector gene expression underly disease outcomes in the field.

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Ballykilcavan Farm and Brewery @ballykilcavan.com · 10/12/2024

It's reached the thick coat in brewery stage of the year. Six years ago today we brewed our first batch of beer in our on farm brewery. Thanks for all the support since then. #Ballykilcavan #Laois #IndependentBeer #SupportLocal

Cold looking brewer in a padded coat in front of copper cladded brewing vessels.

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Can't mistake the smell of mildewed barley in the morning

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Jessica Rutkoski @jrutkoski.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Our yield trials are off to a good start. Some non-uniform emergence in some trials due to heavier residue in spots + dry conditions after planting. We all know variation in soil fertility is a key cause of error in trials, but I think variation in residue is another big one.

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

14 & 4 new additions to the winter & spring barley RLs respectively in today's announcement by AHDB Cereals, although some of the former are regional. See ahdb.org.uk/news/new-rec...

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AHDB has launched the online edition of the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds 2025/26.

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Guillermina Mendiondo @guillemendiondo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Join our PhD project based UoN at Sutton Bonington Campus! As part of the BARIToNE consortium, the overall objective is to increase the sustainability of barley within the malt supply chain by reducing carbon emissions through improved soil health (Project code 25I) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I write one critical review on my blog as practise and the distillery goes into receivership a month later. Pretty awful news as most of the stuff I’ve had from them has been great. My thoughts with the affected staff. www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2024/11/wate...

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Waterford Distillery appoints receivers to save business - The Spirits Business

Mark Reynier has confirmed his Irish whiskey distillery Waterford has called in receivers to "secure the future of the business".

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sad news. Waterford Whisky have been really innovative with their Cathedral of Barley and studies on how barley varieties and environment act and interact to affect spirit flavour www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Distillery calls in receivers as it fails to raise fresh funding

Waterford Whisky invited banker HSBC to appoints receiver to the business

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Malcolm Macaulay @malcolmacaulay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Barley Pan-Genome version 2 update from Micha Bayer this morning. V3 is on its way! #pangenome #barley #core #shell #cloud #cnv #sv

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Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Really interesting #harvest24 statistics from Ireland. Spring barley average yield of just over 7.3 t/ha really impressive when most sowings took place after the time when most growers would hope to be finished ages ago. This was just 0.2t/ha down on the 5 yr average! www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

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Tillage: Harvest Report 2024 confirms total cereals output - Agriland.ie

Teagasc’s Harvest Report 2024 confirms a total cereals’ output of 1.9mt. This figure is similar to 2023 and 0.3mt below the 5 year average

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