Crop Research
As suppliers and buyers, Premium Crops have a vested interest in growers receiving optimal crop performance.
This ethos results in Premium Crops being one of the UK’s largest investors in Minor Crop Research.
Linseed YEN Lite is a digital platform to benchmark husbandry, resource capture, and yield components. Launched in 2024, with funding from Premium Crops.
This increased knowledge base helps us find new ways to improve linseed yields on-farm. Premium Crops offers contract growers subsidised membership fees as sponsors.
PhD Project
“Identifying physiological and agronomical traits associated with high yield in Linseed”
Joint sponsors Premium Crops and Chadacre Agricultural Trust, UoL (LIAT)
The aim of this project is to improve physiological and agronomical understanding of yield in canopy and roots of Linseed.
PhD Project
“Developing best management practices for greenhouse gas flux mitigation and carbon sequestration in Linseed”
A fully funded research project to identify of best management practices for linseed and specific crop traits that might underpin the future development of Net Zero varieties.
Research and Innovation
Premium Crops work with a wide range of research organisations to support and encourage innovation in added value cropping.
- Members of the BSPB
- founder members of the BSPB’s new Minor Crops Group
- Innovate UK’s project Cicero
- John Innes Centre project exploring flax flea beetle
- Initiative with PGRO and others, exploreingalternate pulse crops
Agronomy Trials
To maximize crop performance, understanding growth characteristics and optimal management is essential.
Effective crop management relies on growers having access to the appropriate tools and resources, so every year our team of agronomists commission trials to improve the understanding of minor crop agronomy whilst testing new crop protection products. In 2024 the network of agronomy trials expanded to over 1000 trail plots!
