Jenna Watts

Jenna is the Head of Farming Systems & Research at AHDB.

She has extensive experience of crop health and integrated pest management (IPM).

A key element of Jenna's role is to manage the provision of independent and robust information to farmers and other stakeholders in the UK supply chain.

For example, Jenna and her team provide the agricultural industry with critical information on cereal and oilseed crop protection strategies, variety performance, as well as grain quality and cereal contaminants.

In previous roles at AHDB, dating back to 2009, Jenna has managed disease research projects, translated in-field disease assessments into easy-to-understand ratings and project managed the Recommended Lists for cereals and oilseeds (RL).

She also managed the UK Consumer Association/Which? Magazine’s Science Team for two years (2020 and 2021).

Jenna completed a PhD in Plant Science, focused on oilseed rape pathology, at Rothamsted Research. This followed completion of an undergraduate degree in Microbiology, awarded at the University of Nottingham in 2005.