by Sara Gregson | May 31, 2012 | Farming & Food
A world-leading research facility that will mimic on-farm scenarios was launched in sweltering heat in Devon last week. The North Wyke Farm Platform – part of Rothamsted Research and funded to the tune of £3.6million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences...
by Sara Gregson | May 22, 2012 | Farming & Food
Professor Jamie Newbold, director of research and enterprise at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Research (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, believes that ruminant feed research can address the big social and environmental challenges of the next...
by Sara Gregson | May 15, 2012 | Farming & Food
I hosted two farm business advisers from Finland last week – taking them to see dairy farmers in England and Wales, the largest grass trials site in the UK and ending up at a rain-soaked Grassland UK. They looked in envy at Tim Downes’ and Neale Manning’s...
by Sara Gregson | May 3, 2012 | Gardening & Environment
In 50 years time large parts of cities like London will have been ‘greened’ both at street level and on the roof-tops according to urban ecologist Dusty Gedge. He says that there are multiple benefits of having plants living on top of buildings. In summer they help...
by Sara Gregson | Apr 24, 2012 | Farming & Food
Tune into a new internet TV service dedicated to pasture farming and the vital role it plays in all our lives at www.pasturepromise.tv The idea of agricultural author Graham Harvey and rural media specialist Trevor Bailey, Pasture Promise TV sets out to show how good...
