
Dr Rebecca Bragg
@beccaabragg
Sustainability Researcher at Riverford Organic Farmers 👩🌾 PhD in Integrated Pest Management from Warwick Crop Centre 🫘🌱🪰
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-mcgowan-151b8b144/ 25-02-2019 17:00:48
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Tomorrow afternoon I'll be discussing my final findings from my research on Bean Seed Fly 🪰 Inc. methods to prevent damage, monitor abundance and predict activity 🌱 Register for the webinar below ⬇️ warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesc… Warwick Crop Centre pgro Life Sciences #IPM


Looking forward to providing an update on our research on bean seed fly @warwickcrop Dr Rebecca Bragg


Another day spent soil sampling at Orchard Organic Farm in a new agroforestry plot 🌳🐓 I’d say the hens were more helpful than Teddy 🐶 he kept stealing my bamboo canes! #agroforestry #soils #carbon Riverford Harriet Bell


How apt that small flies that look like bean seed flies are landing on my thesis whilst I prepare for my viva 🪰 three days to go… 😬 Warwick Crop Centre pgro #IPM Life Sciences Rosemary Collier



Yesterday I passed my viva with minor corrections ☀️Thank you Tom Pope & Jackie Stroud for a great discussion on everything Bean Seed Fly 🪰Massive thanks to my supervisor Rosemary Collier & everyone else at Warwick Crop Centre for being amazing colleagues along the way 🌟#phdone


Day one at Groundswell ✅ We even managed to fit in a project meeting as part of our collaborative project that aims to find an alternative to peat in our growing systems 🧐🌱🥬 Find out more here ➡️ youtu.be/38pocM2PdO0?si… #peat Riverford CAWR Coventry Joachim Steiner


Excited to be working on this project with CAWR Coventry, Delfland Nurseries, Joachim Steiner & Innovate UK 🥬


Today we started harvesting lettuce from Trial 2 of our collaborative project that aims to discover an effective peat-free blocking medium 🥬 Riverford CAWR Coventry Joachim Steiner & Delfland Nurseries Innovate UK #peatfree #peat


🥬Francis Rayns, researcher on the #fieldlab testing the benefits of #striptill in #horticulture, checks in on the Riverford trial plot. The strip till crop is a little behind the ploughed, but the team is hopeful it'll catch up soon. Follow for updates: innovativefarmers.org/field-labs/str…


Looking forward to taking part in this webinar tomorrow Life Sciences Jackie Stroud VeGIN 🥕🥦🧅🥬

#OrganicSeptember open day at Shillingford Organics today 🥕tractor trailer rides, fresh veg & and guess the weight of the squash competition! 👨🌾 Soil Association Shillingford Organics



Our latest update on our collaborative project with CAWR Coventry, Jill Vaughan & Joachim Steiner 🌱🌍🥬 Peat-free Partnership 🦋 @peatfree.bsky.social #endpeatsales #peatlands #peatfree wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/hope-for-…


Thrilled to be chairing IPM: Challenges, Opportunities & Synergies tomorrow at #ORFC25! 🐞🪰 Join me and a brilliant panel of experts: 🌟 Rosemary Collier 🌟 Tom Pope 🌟 Andy Dibben 📍 Council Chamber ⌚️ 4 PM, 9th Jan Rosemary Collier Tom Pope The Organic FarmShop Riverford ORFC

