The John Innes Centre and its industrial and academic partners have been awarded UK Government funding to help deliver four ambitious projects that unleash the potential of precision breeding. The ...

For Barry Anderson, it was hard this week to understate the level of anticipation being generated by the uniform bunches of wine grapes ripening on the sun-kissed 77,000 vines he oversees on the ...

The UK’s driest start to the year in four decades is threatening the country’s grain crops and increasing the risk of wildfires. Total precipitation of about 20.5 centimeters (8.1 inches) during the ...

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A team led by Dr Duncan Cameron and Dr Jurriaan Ton believes that UK farming’s inevitable future will be a combination of genetically modified crops on organic farms fertilized by human waste.

While climate change is likely to present significant challenges to agriculture in coming decades, it could also mean that crops such as chickpeas, soyabeans and oranges are widely grown across the UK ...

Farmer engagement and more crop research are key to unlocking significant PV potential on Great Britain’s farms, according to the authors of new University of Sheffield research on agrivoltaics. In ...

Norfolk's world-leading crop scientists have secured multi-million pound government funding for four ambitious projects to "unleash the potential of precision breeding". The John Innes Centre (JIC), ...

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