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1: A robot will help improve wine production http://t.co/IXXPQhv0bi
2: What will be the agri food headlines in 2018? Question time at Reading University http://t.co/O4Ia1KkpOF
3: UK Self Sufficiency - a realistic objective or a pipe dream, Question Time at RAU, 5 Mar: http://t.co/d4nM2IoEmp
4: RT @TimOsbornClim: Contrasting patterns for the 4 yrs - prob the warmest in the last 165 http://t.co/J7N7yOIvF5 http://t.co/Cm9zH1W7AT
5: RT @RuSource Daily is out! http://t.co/eVySw1xRDU Stories via @RuSource @biosciencesktn @blackgull
6: RT @rivelinlime: Food security presentation to #NFU members &ex students at Wentworth last night #GFSS1 http://t.co/9q1Ql9bZBF
7: ADAS Rosemaund Open Day, 17 June: http://t.co/JlxpOSNDL8
8: The dose makes the poison: scientists question neonicotinoid restrictions http://t.co/yy4FyZhmxh
9: Future leaders come together to hone skills - "supply chains must work together" http://t.co/XxyGyW1Bz5
10: RT @BjornLomborg: Biggest gap scientists/popular perceptn not climate, but GMOs & pesticides https://t.co/ryzkDtwt8D http://t.co/GklwYXATUn

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The dose makes the poison: scientists question neonicotinoid restrictions

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NFU ~ 30th Jan 2015 ~ 3pm

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Catherine Linch, Pinstone Communications ~ 29th Jan 2015 ~ 4pm

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Patrick Stephenson, NIAB ~ 29th Jan 2015 ~ 3pm

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Caroline Channing, Biosciences KTN ~ 29th Jan 2015 ~ 2pm