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AHDB has pledged to work closely with the seed potato sector and Scottish Government to ensure that the industry maintains a low level of the fungal disease blackleg. Speaking at

Bayer has entered into a collaboration with F1 Seed to provide Bayer’s breeding programme with a pipeline of parents suitable to breed hybrid wheat varieties for the UK, Ireland and

The UK government’s own projections expect solar and wind power to be cheaper than nuclear power by the time Hinkley Point C is completed (as reported in an article in

Glencore Grain is to launch a new animal feed products marketing business in the UK, providing feed compounders and manufacturers with direct access to the company’s huge global resource of

Muntons, one of the UK’s leading producers of malt for brewing and food manufacturing uses, has appointed the farmer-owned grain co-operative Openfield Agriculture as one of its two newly created

Weetabix Food Company has released a range of limited edition ‘first harvest’ packs to mark the first of its ‘Yellow Box’ cereals to contain crop from Harvest 2016. Weetabix’s exclusive range

The NFU has appointed a new director to lead its newly created Brexit Unit as the organisation moves to strengthen and extend its political reach in the wake of the

Applications are open for the eighth joint Bayer and Farming and Countryside Education Bayer / FACE Awards, which celebrate the great work that farmers and those involved in agriculture do

The beginning of the new Young Farmer’s year saw the appointment of Essex Young Farmer’s (EYF) new county chair, Hannah Kelsey, reports the organisation. In addition, EYF were manning the bar

A new €20 million Sugar Beet R&D research centre, the ‘SESVanderHave Innovation Centre’ (SVIC) was inaugurated by Willy Borsus, Federal Minister of Agriculture, in the presence of 250 customers and

Stop talking about ‘consumers’, start talking about ‘people’; inform through ‘entertainment’, don’t ‘educate’; and collaborate to achieve success. These were the key themes that emerged from LEAF (Linking Environment And

Entries are open for the third Bayer Youth Ag-Summit to be held in Brussels, Belgium in October 2017, in partnership with two Belgian young farmers associations, Groene Kring and Federation