Labour’s Shadow Defra Secretary, Luke Pollard, discusses the party’s new rural policy review.
Pasture-fed livestock are promoted as good for the environment, but it’s the human health gain that is the prime driver for Anna Blumfield who returned to the family farm eight years ago. Jack Watkins reports.
Keeping your dog and livestock safe
Disease symptoms are light in backward crops, with yellow rust only bubbling up in some susceptible varieties, according to Bayer’s National Disease Snapshot.
BASF’s Real Results Virtual Farm recently welcomed PGRO’s Plant Pathologist Dr Lea Herold, who discussed her top tips for making the most of combining peas during a live webinar.
Over the coming months we’ll be checking in with pulse growers up and down the country. We’ll be finding out why they grow peas and beans, how they get the best from them as well as getting a seasonal update.
Covering everything from cultivation to harvest, Dr Becky Howard, PGRO’s R & D manager, revealed much more than her ‘top tips for making the most of winter beans’ at BASF’s latest webinar.
It must seem like In Your Field writers are obsessed by the weather as we always start off with a remark about it. Well, I’m afraid this month I’m following the same pattern.
As Dorothy Fairburn retires from her role as CLA’s director north this spring, she spoke to Clemmie Gleeson about her life and career in the countryside, her Nuffield scholarship on suicide in the farming community and her pl