2018 rodenticide compliance for 11 farm assurance schemes
Eleven assurance schemes with combined memberships of 95,000 farm businesses will be compliant with the…
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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…
Major changes in agricultural practices will be required to offset increases in nutrient losses due to climate change, according to research published by a Lancaster University-led team.
To combat repeated, damaging storm events, which strip agricultural land of soil and nutrients, farmers…
Keynote speakers at Biofuels International 2017 discuss the very latest developments
At a time of increased political, environmental and market uncertainty, this focused two-day event returns…