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Few organisations worldwide have accrued as much knowledge as Fera on the living organisms in our environment. CPM visits its facility near York to find out how original thinking has been applied to cutting-edge R&D to enhance the services it offers growers. The potential to refine environmental risk assessments is huge. By Tom Allen-Stevens Just the name of this new structure suggests it is something of wonder. The E-Flows Mesocosm is taking shape in a clearing at the edge of the National Agri-Food Innovation Campus at Sand Hutton near York. It’s the latest development at the vast science facility that’s home to Fera. Here, around 350 of the country’s keenest minds in crop health and diagnostics are among those who analyse some 90,000 samples every year. Fera has a 100-year history as the government science agency for food, environment and agri-tech and is still 25% owned by Defra. In that time, it’s probably accrued more knowledge about the life in the nation’s soils, its crops and its food than any other UK entity. More recently, Fera’s quietly developed this into a range of diagnostic and analytical services that can offer UK growers a staggering insight into how their crop…
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