Back to the future
Long-term experiments continue to inform and direct agricultural science, to guide the future of farming…
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Glyphosate boost in US
The federal controlled Environmental Protection Agency in the United States has stated that glyphosate, one…
Hidden threat to health
Falling levels of essential nutrients in diets around the world demand urgent action, from soil-crop-human…
NIAB chief Tina Barsby awarded OBE in New Year’s Honours List
Dr Tina Barsby, CEO of Cambridge-based crop science organisation NIAB, has been awarded an OBE…
Thirteen years to go
If agricultural production has not become sustainable by 2030, it will be “incredibly hard” to…
Harper Hands Free project to continue
The world-first project run by Harper Adams University and Precision Decisions to drill, tend and harvest a…
Mechatronics researcher awarded Nuffield Scholarship
Harper Adams University mechatronics researcher Jonathan Gill has been awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to look…
Crunch time for food security
Feelings often run high where insects are concerned, with many people even squeamish to look…
Scientists develop groundnut resistant to aflatoxin
Scientists at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in St. Louis, MO and their collaborators at…
Plaguing insects with bittersweet tastes to protect crops
Herbivorous insects are estimated to be responsible for destroying one-fifth of the world’s total crop…