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An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration. The agri-tech innovation hopes to give farmers a way to reduce the cost and environmental damage caused by the chemical treatments...

Yield Losses Due to Pests | Agronomy, Blog Since the beginning of what we consider today to be agriculture which was around 10,000 years ago, farmers have had to compete with harmful organisms to insure food security – pests. As with abiotic causes of crop losses, especially the lack or excess...

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But about keeping the crop alive with water or making more challenging strategic decisions, says Hutchinsons root crop technical manager Darryl Shailes. He points out that even the best of irrigation systems or the crops grown in the perfect silt that were planted in great conditions are...

When we pick up a handful of soil, it is hard to imagine all the activity that is happening at a microscopic scale within it and the powerful impacts this has. The web of life in a healthy soil is a weird and wonderful world of interactions that scientists are only just beginning to understand...

There is a group of largely untapped organic materials with the potential to enhance agricultural land quality. A new study has investigated how chitinous by-product streams could help underpin soil health. There are well-documented benefits associated with the regular supply of traditional...

Natural organisms found in soil and their use as novel fungicides is being explored in a new collaborative project to help farmers overcome potato late blight. The work centres on utilising the latest cutting-edge technology to analyse soil microbiomes – the complex interaction of billions of...

Do we know yet who has replaced @Guy Smith at Red Tractor after he resigned last year? Did we ever find out more on the reason than the classic political "personal reasons"?

Just a honest question, the UKs population has grown by 4million extra people, in the last 10 years and is growing faster then ever? Here where i am the infrustructure is creaking? sewage system overloaded now, water water where, electric, where? once land here is built on its gone, gone from...

Scientists are developing a ‘super-spud’ to better withstand harsher environmental conditions. © nednapa, Shutterstock From origins in the cool altitudes of the Andes, the potato is not well suited to the extreme temperatures or flooding brought on by climate change. Plant scientists are...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Kent man for depositing and burning waste illegally multiple times. Michael Shilling was fined £4,500 and ordered to pay £6,779 costs, a £190 victims’ surcharge and £11,086 compensation to Iron...

So rumour has it interest rates to go up again by .5%,how can they reduce inflation by hitting the public to cut spending yet energy etc constantly going up.They now want food prices down to help but does that mean they expect industry etc to run at a loss .I just can’t get my head round the...

Good afternoon all, I wanted to let you know that we've opened the Sustainable Farming Incentive for applications today. You can find a summary of what's available in this initial rollout here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/a-summary-of-the-sfi-in-2022 - we'll be expanding the scheme to cover...

Supposed to get the train to the Highland Show on Friday morning from Durham. Train was running and unaffected from the Strike-return on Sunday was- then a truck crashed on the line past Newcastle so all trains cancelled on Friday morning. Contacted friends who were traveling with us they...

While potato planting is only just getting underway, growers are being reminded to put crop haulm destruction plans in place now. With decisions made based on variety choice, end market and storage requirements, this will ensure only small tweaks to strategy are needed ahead of spraying and...

Written by Bernie Commins from Agriland Bayer has joined like-minded companies in the private sector, in signing the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge with a $160 million (USD) commitment dedicated to help end global hunger. The ‘pledge’, in the context of the UN Food Systems Summit of 2021...

Never mind that the technology must be years away but : The production of gene-edited crops is to be sped up to help guarantee British food supplies in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine. Russian blockades are preventing the export of key goods such as wheat from the country, leading to rising...

Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland Met Éireann has issued a status yellow thunderstorm warning for nine counties for this afternoon and evening (Monday, May 16). The forecaster said that scattered thunderstorms with “localised downpours” will make driving conditions poor. The warning...

Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine Download PDF Controlling evolving, aggressive blight populations in a wetter, warmer region has long been a challenge for potato growers in Pembrokeshire. CPM finds out how agronomists and farmers are tackling the challenge head-on by using...

Disease-resistant pigs and oily plants – why UK scientists seek to alter food genes Written by Robin McKie Science Editor from the Guardian Experts welcome planned laws on the use of genetic technology, but say growing global crises demand urgent action On 24 July 2019, Boris Johnson stood...