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In addition to the agreement signed in October 2017, BASF has signed an agreement to purchase further businesses and assets, which Bayer offered to divest in the context of its

Farmers faced with the daily battle to reduce livestock losses are being helped by advances in mobile technology, including thermal imaging, now embedded in a smartphone from Caterpillar.

Bayer’s new herbicide for use in potatoes has impressed in trials giving good control of a broad range of weeds, says the company. The new herbicide which Bayer is hoping

British Farmers are experiencing increasingly intense pressure to improve the way they store chemicals, including Plant Protection Products (PPPs), says Suffolk-based chemical storage container supplier Billie Box. The Environment Agency,

Oilseed rape in many northern areas is expected to be at very high risk from light leaf spot this spring, so crops must be fully protected throughout the crucial flowering

CF Fertilisers is to invest £40m in British fertiliser production following rising demand for its ammonium nitrate (AN) based products and two years of record outputs at its manufacturing sites

Omex Agriculture’s brand new 16,000t liquid nitrogen and sulphur storage and distribution facility at Port of Dundee is now fully operational with its first load having left the site recently

The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) and the British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB), representing the seed breeding and distribution of certified seed, have launched a new code of practice to

Some of UK agriculture’s well-known names have come together to support a four-day charity cycle ride in July, which will cover a 260-mile route through Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk.

With spring finally underway and the threat of blowflies rising, a collaboration between Elanco Animal Health and NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service) will bring sheep farmers real time updates

Cheffins’ Cambridge Vintage Sale at Sutton, near Ely on the 21st April 2018 made a total of £1.4million over 3,000 lots. Showcasing a number of the world’s most unusual classic

Although some of the 2018 sugar beet crop is still to be drilled improving weather and ground conditions will see growers catch up quickly. Consequently, the crop will, in reality, be only a few weeks behind schedule.