Scientific Research at Silsoe

The Silsoe Research Institute, UK, known for most of its life as The National Institute of Agricultural Engineering closed in 2006 after over 80 years of major achievements and contributions to world agricultural science.

This landmark book records these major achievements and contributions, concentrating on engineering and scientific innovation and on successful projects taken up by industry, incuding not only the manufacturers of farm machinery, but farming itself. Major aspects of the book include details of the practical problems that the researchers at Silsoe undertook to solve, interactions with the wider agricultural and engineering communities, work with government departments concerned with overseas development and Silsoe's wide ranging contributions to international standards.

Subject areas covered include tractors and other field machinery, soil management and crop protection, post harvest, horticultural engineering, farm buildings, emissions from agriculture, animal welfare, the contribution to developing nations, and information technology and control.

There is much of value and interest in this book for agricultural scientists, engineers and historians. This book should also find a place on the library shelves of all university departments and research establishments where agriculture is studied and taught, and in the libraries of universities teaching agriculture, engineering and history.