35th CUPGRA Annual Cambridge Potato Conference will focus on turning problems into opportunities
THE 35th CUPGRA Annual Cambridge Potato Conference will take place on December 10th and 11th at Robinson College.
The theme of the conference is ‘Potato Crisis! What Crisis?’ and will delve into how members of the potato industry can learn from each other and turn problems into opportunities.
The two-day event, which comprises a conference, lectures, workshop and banquet, is open to all those in potato supply chain. The Eric Allen Memorial Lecture ‘Understanding how potatoes grow, determines how to grow potatoes’ is open to all, so even those who can’t make the conference, can attend this event for free on the first evening.
This year’s workshops, held on the Wednesday, are as follows:
- How to design field trials to answer questions?
- Increasing storage efficiency
- The challenges for UK seed supply
- Potato Lite: updates and learnings into practice
- PCN – pathotyping understanding varietal characteristics
Those who attend the Potato Barons’ Christmas Feast, which takes place in St John’s College Dining Hall, will be entertained by after-dinner speaker Judith Batchelar OBE who will reflect on her life’s work in retail and how innovation can drive supply chain improvements for all, along with the Gentlemen of London.
BASIS points are available to those who attend the conference.
