Online booklet brings practical tips from Nuffield Scholars on how to better manage nutrients
With the new Labour Government keen to boost renewable energy production, HCR Hewitson's Emily Pumfrey takes a look at the legal implications of the diversification opportunities
New partnership aims to control viral infection levels by monitoring transmission
Alastair Sneddon on delays to bovine EID
Chris Dodds on fair prices and illegal imports
"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"
Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops
Plans for farmer-led committee to discuss research and funding opportunities
Growers urged to inspect condition before autumn planting