Natural route masters
Bumblebees regularly tackle the Travelling Salesman Problem to improve their foraging routes, a skill that…
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Bayer launches transparency website
Bayer today launched its new transparency website (https://cropscience-transparency.bayer.com/), designed to enable access to scientific data…
2018 rodenticide compliance for 11 farm assurance schemes
Eleven assurance schemes with combined memberships of 95,000 farm businesses will be compliant with the…
New environmental protections to deliver a Green Brexit
Plans to consult on a new, independent body that would hold Government to account for…
Talks on glyphosate fail: Smith responds
The European Commission has announced that talks on the renewal of the glyphosate licence, due…
Scientists develop groundnut resistant to aflatoxin
Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in St. Louis, MO and their collaborators at…
House built of miscanthus
A collaborative project by the University of Aberystwyth, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and…
Survey portrays farmers concerns over neonics
A new survey commissioned by Bayer and carried out by the independent agricultural research agency,…
Beans benefit from flowering attraction for bees
Yorkshire farming environment specialist, Mark Richardson, is pioneering a new use of wildflower margins to…
Leaf sensors can tell when crop needs to be irrigated
Plant-based sensors that measure the thickness and electrical capacitance of leaves show great promise for…