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Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicine It goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the...
• Breadmaker to stop Canadian imports in the new year • Move welcomed by National Farmers' Union Britain's farmers were given a boost today when bread maker Hovis announced that it plans to use only British wheat across its...
A new report reveals the boomerang effect of direct assaults on nature, as infectious diseases wing back to plague the people responsible, says Geoffrey Lean. A killing zone for mosquitos: the insects live longer and breed...
George Monbiot's latest article on peak oil is introduced thus: "It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production." Of course governments are doing nothing to transition to the...
Sampling for soil mineral nitrogen (SMN) in autumn is as accurate as spring sampling on medium to heavy soils, according to initial results of an HGCA -funded project. But getting the sample to the lab quickly is crucial to...
Running the farm grainstore through harvest is never the most heavily contested job. But handling and storing grain is now more important than ever with quality issues and disease control putting more pressure on how crops are...
Sample something different in Sri Lanka Nov 20 2009 David Mastin David Mastin was entranced by the laid-back approach to life on the former British colony AS IT was nudging 33 degrees in the shade, the last thing I wanted to...
Many hundreds of sheep and cattle could have perished as flood waters swept fiercely across thousands of low-lying acres in the north west of England, it has emerged. As farmers returned from their first forays to check the...
After a wonderful autumn, ground conditions finally forced us to house all the cattle in the first week of November, thus beginning regular winter chores. They had grown considerable winter coats and so the first job was to...
Should I dust off my rugby boots? We are back to producing food as Mr Benn suggests, following lost days TB testing. And we heard this morning that we have been put on six-month testing, an improvement on the past five tests at...
