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According to CropTec Show Biocontrol Hub sponsor UPL, farmers are increasingly turning to biocontrols and biostimulants as they seek alternatives to conventional pesticides.

A new report from the Sustainable Farming Trust (SFT) has warned a US-UK trade deal will threaten the progress which has been made in recent years on antibiotic resistance.

Rural Affairs minister Lesley Griffiths has announced 200,000 of support for the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society for 2020-21

Labour and food shortages driven by the Covid-19 pandemic have escalated the move to high-tech farm equipment with the market expected to double over the next five years.

I have decided to allocate time in this opinion piece to bovine TB – specifically residual disease.

We understand farmers are anxious about the changes outlined by Defra in its agricultural transition plan this week, but that change will offer real opportunities for the sector, says Farming Minister Victoria Prentis.

The chief executive officer of the Wildlife Trusts, Craig Bennett, was ridiculed after he tweeted an image of a sloped Cambridgeshire field which claimed ploughing was responsible for flooding each winter.

With subsoil compaction difficult to quantify at field-scale, PhD student Joseph Martlew of Cranfield University has been working with NIAB TAG to investigate methods to quantify and alleviate it in arable soils.

Defra has confirmed farmers in England are set to lose 50 per cent of their direct payment by 2024.

Approximately 10,500 birds will be culled following an outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) at a turkey fattening farm in North Yorkshire.