Liquid fertiliser additives and living mulch trials to create home-grown fertility are being trialled as solutions to the ongoing fertiliser crisis.
Claims that gene editing (GE) could produce food with a higher nutrient density or cope better with adverse weather should be approached with cynicism, visitors to Oxford Real Farming Conference heard.
A packed LAMMA show saw information and advice being shared across the halls. Alice Dyer and Ash Burbidge picked up some arable business tips from exhibitors.
Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.
Increasing economic pressures, supply concerns and wider environmental issues are set to amplify farm expenditure, with recent budgets looking quite different to those 12 months ago.
What started as an escape during the Covid lockdown has snowballed into a popular veg box scheme at one Welsh farm.
Machinery agnostics platform, DataBaler, enables data insights and machinery applications to become accessible to farmers through one integrated system.
Expanding from the original one-hectare plot to a 35-hectare autonomous farm is just one of the developments the Hands Free farm has achieved over the past six years
A network of connected weather stations is being rolled out across the UK to help growers and agronomists make crop management decisions.
New packaging for Nemathorin nematicide granules has been created to enable clean and efficient operation during potato planting.