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An indoor vertical farm in Scotland will be completed in the next few months, the company behind the project has said. Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), the Dundee-based company, says it will make vertical farming - the process of producing food on vertically stacked layers indoors - commercially viable through reduced power and labour costs. The modern ideas of vertical farming use indoor farming techniques and controlled-environment ag...
An indoor vertical farm in Scotland will be completed in the next few months, the company behind the project has said. Intelligent Growth Solutions...
A Conservative MEP has failed to stop a complete EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, which critics say are harmful to Britain's bee population. In ...
The potato industry has said it has 'high hopes' for the introduction of British seed potatoes in Kenya. Official potato trial seed sent to Kenya h...
Agrovista showed off its cloud-based agronomy system 'Axis' at the arable event Cereals. Axis is a fully integrated system that can assimilate and ...
The National Farmers' Union has explained that it is wary of imposing too much regulation on soil protection rules. The NFU's vice president Guy Sm...
A new report on the benefits of sheep in arable rotations, aimed at arable farmers thinking about introducing sheep onto their farms, has been launche...
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a ban on the use of pesticides in Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs). The vote means the European Commiss...
Farmers in and around Cheshire, who farm land over important water storage aquifers, are to get the chance to bid for the cost of growing winter cover...
Cereal producers and processors are being asked to improve competitiveness and drive productivity if it is to succeed as a sector post-Brexit, accordi...
New figures show the potentially devastating impact of a ban on glyphosate to the British economy and the agricultural sector, warning that it would l...
Sumitomo Chemical and BASF, two of the world’s leading chemical companies, have announced their entry into a collaboration agreement for the developme...
Farmers and agronomists are being asked to complete an online survey to help map the distribution of brome weeds across UK arable farms. The result...
Universities across Europe are to take part in a €10m (£8.7m) project to transform farming. Recent policies of agriculture based on intense mechani...
Six out of ten adults are unaware that sugar is grown in Britain, according to research revealing that sugar beet is one of British farming’s best-kep...
The amount of land farmed organically in the United Kingdom fell by more than three per cent last year, according to figures released by the Departmen...
A social enterprise farm from Cheshire that offers sustainable jobs for the long-term unemployed has been given an 'unexpected' £25,000 donation by th...
A new research programme designed to help the UK fruit industry manage spotted wing drosophila has been announced. The four-year project, which sta...
The European Commission will propose extending by 10 years its approval of the herbicide glyphosate. A transatlantic row over possible risks to hum...
Anglian Water is trialling a new initiative to allow local farmers access to latest weather information in a bid to protect the water environment. ...
The spread of pests and pathogens that damage plant life could cost global agriculture £400 billion a year if left unchecked, according to a new repor...
Five farmers from the north of England have been selected from over 300 applicants to join the biggest farmer trial ever conducted by the crop protect...
The Soil Association, working as part of an industry initiative, wants to introduce people to large-scale horticulture due to a falling number of new ...
The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is 'severely damaging' earthworm populations around the wor...
This year, farmers from AHDB’s Monitor Farm programme have been burying their pants to help them find out about their soil health. A simple visual ...
After one of the driest winters in 20 years, more than four-fifths of the country’s rivers have fallen to abnormally low levels and there are growing ...
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