New chemistries deliver industry’s first major innovation in decades
For the first time in more than 50 years, a new type of environmentally friendly,…
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Managed lower inputs at Strategic Farm East
With ever-increasing pressure for farmers to find ways to cut costs, AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds…
Policy-makers cannot afford to ignore soil sustainability
Soils play a key role in climate regulation, nutritious diets, agricultural livelihoods, and biodiversity. But soils have dropped…
Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
Leading scientific institutions including the John Innes Centre are today calling for the Government to…
Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal crops moves a step closer
A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team,…
Epigenome of bread wheat mapped to piece together its genetic heritage
Published in Genome Research, based on a novel method developed by Earlham Institute, UK, an international…
New partnership between China’s XAG and Harper Adams University
The National Centre for Precision Farming (NCPF) at Harper Adams University and XAG, one of the world’s…
One giant leap for wheat
A major international research collaboration has revealed what makes wheat tick, promising discoveries to combat…
VOX pops cereal challenge
A popular technique for studying genes from different organisms plus a new carrier to transfer…
Tramline trials test winter wheat nitrogen accuracy
An innovative set of trials has helped farmers test the accuracy of nitrogen (N) management…