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Cereal growers can learn about their fields’ aphid populations, if they get involved in a new research project.

A dairy farm in East Devon has set up a milk vending machine to help reconnect consumers with their food and where it comes from.

The LAMMA show is set to build on its reputation as the UK’s largest agricultural event dedicated to showcasing innovation when it returns to its new permanent indoor venue at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham next January.

John Deere has launched its next generation of self-propelled sprayers, manufactured at the company’s Horst factory in The Netherlands.

Welsh farmers are urging the public to embrace wool as an environmentally-friendly alternative to polyester clothing.

Some winter oilseed rape may already have 10% of the crop affected by phoma, according to the leaf spot forecast for the disease.

eyeSpot uses cameras to target individual weeds in vegetable fields and apply precise herbicide droplets with an ejector. This accurately fires treatment to the individual leaves of each weed, according to AHDB.

The ChickenStress European Training Network has received £3.5 million in investment from the EU Marie Curie Fund.

Syngenta’s Farm Sprayer Operator of the Year (FSOOTY) award aims to reward the country’s top sprayer operators, while sharing tips and best practice that could help operators enhance their results and protect the environment.

“UK sugar beet growers need more than ever to focus on their costs of production.” says Nik Johnson of JSE Systems in Lincolnshire.

Led by researchers from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the ‘Grass to Gas’ project will use scientific and industry expertise to measure feed efficiency and methane emissions.

Farmers with autumn calving herds are urged to be ‘coccidiosis aware’ during the high-risk period three to four weeks post-calving – particularly in mild, damp weather.