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Crop Watch West: Dry spell eludes Bryce Rham
Rain, rain and yet more rain! My hoped-for five-week spell of dry weather has not materialised.
17 November 2008
Crop Watch East: Sodden land halts sowing, says Brian Ross
I've just decided to take out my PADI certificate, as scuba diving is the only way around the fields at the moment.
17 November 2008
Crop Watch South: fallow could minimise losses, Nick Brown hears
The weather has deteriorated again and further drilling is now unlikely on all but the lightest land.
17 November 2008
Hundreds of sheep washed away in freak West Country storms
Hundreds of sheep have been drowned and property flooded in East Devon overnight, where freak weather caused the River Otter to burst its banks.
30 October 2008
Heat stress rather than drought will hit yields in the future, says researcher
Breeding for drought tolerance or heat stress was under the spotlight at a Rothamsted Research / HGCA workshop. Mike Abram reports
28 October 2008
Soils under threat as science base dwindles
Some of Britain's most productive farming areas are under threat because of deteriorating soil quality.
23 October 2008
Waterlogged soil derogation extended to 25 October
DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn has extended the derogation from the cross-compliance standard of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition regulation to 25 October.
07 October 2008
PICTURES: Catch up with the picture highlights of the week
View some of the best pictures submitted to the FWiSpace picture galleries over the past seven days. You can also add your own
14 September 2008
Welsh harvest is 'worst ever'
Farmers in the main cereal growing areas of Wales claim that up to five times the average summer rainfall has made the 2008 harvest the worst ever.
11 September 2008
Floods leave Scottish farmers stranded
Tom Macfarlane, who runs 4000 ewes at Flass, Lauder, lost 370 Suffolk cross lambs on the River Till just over the Border at Ewart, Wooler.
11 September 2008
Falling prices add to weather devastation
Torrential rain has yet again flattened crops and flooded already-saturated fields, leaving growers unable to harvest and plunging livestock producers further into crisis.
11 September 2008
