Catherine

crop scientist, views are my own

[Scottish Agronomy Ltd @ScotAgCoOp]

Brilliant opportunity for engaged growers to participate in selecting varieties for the future.
https://t.co/coztl7Q3Gm

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Great to see Hepworth, the latest winter bean from the @ibers_aber breeding programme enter the @pgroresearch descriptive list

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

🌱 The new @pgroresearch Descriptive List for 2026 has been released.

Hepworth joining our market-leading winter bean varieties, Vespa & Vincent! For Spring Beans – Notilus & Navara retain their leading positions.

https://t.co/iNH4tGbBTy

[FJ Tillage @FJTillage]

Oats are an environmentally friendly crop and match other grains on animal performance.
https://t.co/jmiHunUnmA

[Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @DoctorChrisVT]

This is a paradigm shift in nutrition - a “unified theory” which is profoundly explanatory.
And it does not displace previous nutritional knowledge. Calories, salt, fat and sugar are very much part of the problem – UPF explains why we are eating more of them.
It’s hard to see how there could be any other outcome when food is developed, processed and marketed by transnational corporations with enormous budgets.

Imagine you are running a big food company. To keep up with the competition you’re going to have to do two things.
1. Drop the price of ingredients (replace strawberries with flavours, eggs with emulsifiers etc) and
2. engineer food so that people buy and eat more and more of it.
We know a huge amount about the properties of food that drive excess consumption and the big UPF companies use all these tricks.

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption https://t.co/7Lihtqpz2q

[OatFrontiers @OatFrontiers]

Euronews visited @Hr_annar and other collaborators in the project in Iceland. Have a look at the nice stories they made about our project (first story here and the other one in the comments).

https://t.co/z8DWTF1MkC

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Great work by an excellent team- looking forward to seeing how they perform @ibers_aber #oats

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

The IBERS team have been busy drilling Senova's potential new oat varieties – setting the stage for another season of innovation in UK oat breeding. 🌱

👀 Follow us to stay up-to-date with what’s happening in the fields.

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Great to be part of this amazing team

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: A pangenome and pantranscriptome of hexaploid oat

https://t.co/B96NXkEp48

[Filippo Bassi @fillobax]

Can you beat the #breeder ?
Try this fun game @CropTrust here (bit if scroll down)

https://t.co/KTxD66Dc1p

I got a +31% at my first attempt! I am sure that @Amitdur @spiga_dorata @INRAMaroc and all of you can do better

[raz avni @RazAvni]

Excited to share that our new Oat pangenome paper is now published in @Nature.
This is a huge milestone for the Oat research community.
Thanks Martin mascher, @nadia__kamal, Manuel Spannagl, Wubishet Bekele, Nick Tinker and the whole PanOat consortium.
https://t.co/XWM0amedJv

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Excellent work by a great team

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

The IBERS team have been busy drilling Senova's potential new oat varieties – setting the stage for another season of innovation in UK oat breeding. 🌱

👀 Follow us to stay up-to-date with what’s happening in the fields.

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Excited to see in print the results of many years of collaboration with some great scientists in the world wide oat community- read more at https://t.co/HJK8LdfH0U
Or the papers themselves
https://t.co/CJ26THAjDt and https://t.co/TcKDk0PwhO
@BBSRC @ibers_aber @AberUni @Nature

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

Looking to add Beans to your rotation? Discover your best fit.

👉 Explore our Winter Bean Varieties: https://t.co/nuZ0735uEj

#WinterBeans #Senova #UKFarming #Seeds #Agriculture #FarmSmart

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Lots more Winter oats in the @ibers_aber breeding pipeline as well ready for @Senova to take forward

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

🏆 Mascani took home the @niabgroup Variety Cup at #Cereals2025 –
a well-deserved win for the UK’s leading

winter oat. But that’s not all. 👉 We’ve got a strong lineup of up-and-
coming winter oats in the pipeline too! Head to https://t.co/bGlo0Li6db to explore our full range!

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

So will one of these be the next oat variety from the @ibers_aber @AberUni breeding programme?

[Senovaltd @SenovaLtd]

Oat Seed prep at @ibers_aber has never looked (or sounded) better. 🌱

👉 Explore Senova seed today: https://t.co/bGlo0Li6db

#SeedSorting #Seed #Senova #UKAgriculture #UKFarming

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Fancy an oat tour of Scotland?

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Combining the final plot in our ⁦@OatFrontiers⁩ trial here at ⁦⁦⁦⁦@ibers_aber⁩. It will be interesting to see how the yields compare to those in Iceland and the other frontier sites- our variety Timpani the winner here

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

@newagrifood @OatFrontiers @OatNewsletter Yes, all spring oats and some from our breeding programme but the earliest maturing ones are Nordic

[Catherine @HowarthOats]

Oh dear- so the best porridge oats come from wheat?

[White's Oats @WhitesOats]

Did you know, jumbo oats have a lower glycemic index than instant oats, mean they can help you to feel fuel for longer? 

Our Organic Jumbo Oats make the creamiest porridge too, no wonder they’re 5*!