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Author Name: Libby Cutress, CC Group, PR If you haven’t come across SolarAid before, its mission is to eliminate the use of toxic kerosene lamps in Africa by 2020, by replacing them with Solar lamps.
SolarAid is in a competition to win £500...
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Author Name: Agrovista ed Alan Spedding In truly awful conditions Agrovista’s national Grow Crop Gold trials hold a wealth of discovery about what works to oilseed rape in an extreme season.
The company will host seven open days in June at its trial...
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Farmers are always reluctant to install drainage through a growing crop, and understandably so! Our machinery must move cross the ground damaging, sometimes killing the young plants Clearly it is better to wait until after harvest to install, however...
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Author Name: CCA Landskills CCA LandSkills have brought together a network of specialist training providers from across the UK with the ability to deliver training throughout the agriculture, horticulture and forestry sectors.
Courses are delivered in...
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Author Name: Letter from Tina Barsby responding to Geoffrey Lean article in the Telegraph Sir,
As director of the research institute concerned, I was disappointed at the inference in yesterday’s article The inconvenient truth about GM that the early...
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Cranswick, mostly known for its pork products, was once a farmer owned cooperative and is now a public limited company with a turnover of £875m. It has just announced full year pre tax profits up 8%, and sales up 5% (on a like for like basis). Any company...
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Author Name: Rothamsted Reseach Plant biomass is a major source of renewable energy. Two of the prime challenges in bioenergy research are to improve the yield of biomass crops and to make the stored carbon more available for conversion into liquid biofuel...
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Over my lifetime there are not many jobs that I have not tackled, and as with every job, the more you do of that particular job the better you get at it. On the domestic side Take hair dressing for example, not that far fetched from sheep shearing, or...
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Author Name: CleanTech PR agency 130 British farmers and landowners were surveyed by the CleanTech division of PR agency CCgroup to investigate what renewables information resonates and why. The report ‘How to talk so farmers and landowners listen’...
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Author Name: Vivergo Fuels Our £350m biorefinery, based at Saltend near Hull, uses 1.1 million tonnes of feed-grade wheat to produce 420 million litres of bioethanol and 500,000 tonnes of animal feed per year. This makes us the largest bioethanol...
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2nd draft of book at 10,000 words completed. A brief extract (850 words) can be found in the June 1st issue of the Tain and District Post for any one local who wants a quick look. Characters mentioned so far - Ted MacDougal (a triple hat trick in 1971...
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Author Name: Alan Spedding from Twitter There is an increased frequency of extremes and longer weather patterns. The weather is less predictable leading to lower yields and higher costs. A lot of drainage systems built with grants in 60's and 70's...
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Monday the 13th May was another day to remember on my Nuffield adventure. My visit was to the HQ of NIABTAG near Cambridge, who just the evening before had been on Countryfile with a brand new development in wheat breeding! I was met by Bill Clarke, to...
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Author Name: Charles Cook ed Alan Spedding Two of the talks at the recent UK Brassica Reseach Community annual meeting, including the keynote from Paul Thornalley (University of Warwick), focussed on the health benefits of Brassica vegetables. First of...
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Author Name: BBSRC ed Alan Spedding By 2050, a 60% increase in wheat production will be needed to meet the demand of a growing population.
The Wheat Initiative, an international consortium gathering public institutions and private companies, was created...
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Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding The large-scale production of edible insects is unavoidable in order to continue feeding the ever-increasing global population and providing them with enough animal...
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Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding BBSRC has launched a new toolkit to encourage researchers and the general public to engage in a national conversation about bioenergy.
The Bioenergy Dialogue Toolkit...
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This week I committed a farmer sin, I went on holiday. It seems to me that not many farmers go away for a break very often, what’s the reason for this? Is there no time? Do we have such a pride that we feel nobody could look after our animals for a week...
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Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding Brewing-enthusiast Dr Chris Ridout had little idea when he applied for a BBSRC public engagement grant in 2001 that it might lead him to resurrect a Victorian beer...
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This simple but important video illustrates the ravages of badger tuberculosis on badgers. It provides a graphic example of how these poor animals become such a weapon of mass destruction to many other mammals when they are so infected. Read More...
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I can't believe where the last month has disappeared too. After Canada, lambing day and the spring work on the farm, things sure have been very busy. Last week we hosted Natasha King, a 2013 Nuffield Scholar, who we met in Canada. So as I was heading...
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What companies say in their advertisements can be a good guide to what matters to consumers. The holy grail of a good advert is to be eye-catching, relevant, and persuasive. It has to stand out amidst the hundreds of advertising messages with which we...
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Author Name: NIAB UK wheat yields could be boosted by up to 30% with the introduction of a new wheat bred from a wild grass species.
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge has recreated the original rare cross between an ancient...
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Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network The gardener’s best friend, the earthworm, is great at protecting leaves from being chomped by slugs, suggests research in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Ecology...