Study highlights flaws in crop IP system
The decades-old intellectual property system for new crop and plant varieties may no longer be fit for purpose, according…
Browsing: Opinion
Do not forget the threat of Phoma
Yorkshire-based trainee technical manager and agronomist, Chris Dickinson, provides support to customers and colleagues country-wide…
Time to diversify my portfolio
As many maybe considering, Joe Stanley plans to drop oilseed rape in favour of a…
Fallacy of ‘income foregone’ payments for new ELMS revealed
Basing new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) payments on the age-old income foregone formula is…
Autumn 2020 seed treatment decisions for Scottish growers
Eric Anderson, Scottish Agronomy Faced with Covid-19 related contraction of demand for spring barley and…
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Johnson?
Andrew Brown is a Rutland farmer born and bred. The farm is 60% arable and…
Lets talk about social distancing
At the end of February well over 1000 NFU members all gathered in Birmingham for…
ELMS broadly welcomed
Defra’s latest discussion document, outlining how the Environmental Land Management System (ELMS) might operate, suggests…
We, as a nation and as an industry, need greater resilience at all levels: Joe Stanley
I shall begin with the normal. Finally, after an unprecedented period of wet weather lasting…
An opportunity to think how we manage water
Whether dry spells or flooding – farming must be able to cope with the effects of climate…