BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Britain's farmers must be allowed to keep growing gene-edited crops and using plant protection products currently banned in the European Union if the UK strikes ...
In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. "When I tell people what I'm doing here, they think I'm joking," says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK's first and ...
For Barry Anderson, it was hard this week to understate the level of anticipation being generated by the uniform bunches of wine grapes ripening on the sun-kissed 77,000 vines he oversees on the ...
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The UK’s driest start to the year in four decades is threatening the country’s grain crops and increasing the risk of wildfires. Total precipitation of about 20.5 centimeters (8.1 inches) during the ...
A team led by Dr Duncan Cameron and Dr Jurriaan Ton believes that UK farming’s inevitable future will be a combination of genetically modified crops on organic farms fertilized by human waste.
Aligning Great Britain’s crop protection rules with the EU’s is set to slash farming profit by up to £810m and trigger steep falls in UK crop production, according to new analysis commissioned by ...
Farmer engagement and more crop research are key to unlocking significant PV potential on Great Britain’s farms, according to the authors of new University of Sheffield research on agrivoltaics. In ...
While climate change is likely to present significant challenges to agriculture in coming decades, it could also mean that crops such as chickpeas, soyabeans and oranges are widely grown across the UK ...
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