In the Government spending review announced a week ago, DEFRA secured an annual budget of £2.7 billion for the next three years. Of this, £2.3 billion will be spent on payments to farmers, which ...

Globally, FAO estimates that 1.66 billion hectares are degraded due to human activities, with over 60 percent of this affecting agricultural lands, including croplands and pastures. Given that 95 ...

With the EU Court hearing just weeks away, the Global Mancozeb Summit has reinforced the importance of basing regulatory decisions on robust scientific evidence and the real-world challenges that ...

Other issues facing abattoirs include ‘animal by-products’ (such as skins, hides or offal) which used to represent an income stream for abattoirs and contributed towards a circular economy, which are ...

The researchers tested oat husks, wheat straw, potato pulp and sugar beet pulp. Oat husks and wheat straw turned out to work best to develop a pulp, called dissolving pulp, which is used to make ...

The real beauty of the Multicast is its versatility. By simply changing the metering cartridge and recalibrating the application rate you can broadcast grass seed, cover crops, granular fertilizer, ...

LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Helen Ferrier as its new Director of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange.

The largest flooding programme in history will be announced by government this week, with a record £7.9 billion committed over ten years to protect hundreds of thousands of homes, small businesses, ...

Scotland's red meat sector has enormous growth potential with growing domestic and international demand. But that potential has been squandered by years of political indifference, shallow words, and a ...

As leaders gather at the G7 summit, farmers are urging governments to recognise that a strong, sustainable and resilient agriculture sector is not only vital to rural communities, but essential to ...

biotope by VIB has secured €5 million in the first close of its second fund, marking a major step toward its €9 million target over the next 18 months. The fund will enable biotope to invest €250,000 ...