Scientists find new, more efficient way to reduce water use and improve plant growth
A team of scientists has revealed a new, sustainable way for plants to increase carbon…
Browsing: Crops
Heygates offer buyback for Extase
One of Britain’s biggest flour millers is to offer buy-back contracts for the new Group…
Winter wheat crop update
With fine spring weather the workload on farms has picked up and growers are in…
Oilseed rape: crop update
Oilseed rape crops across the UK are mixed this year. There are some big, forward…
Workforce, the single biggest challenge for global horticulture
Addressing AHDB’s SmartHort conference, NFU Sector Board Chair and apple producer, Ali Capper, made it…
New products enable growers to protect £1bn crops
UK growers now have access to three new products, to target and control ‘Grey Mould…
Adama opens new global R&D centre
Adama Agricultural Solutions has opened a global research and development complex in the Israeli town…
Bees buzz back in growers green headlands
Potato and vegetable growers are providing a hugely valuable habitat resource for some increasing populations…
Save the moth, stop the rust and enhance food security
Citizen science project ‘Barberry Rust Explorer’ takes multi-disciplinary approach to conservation The delicately patterned Barberry…
Pollen beetle threat
An exceptionally warm February has contributed to the earliest start to a pollen beetle migration…