In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. "When I tell people what I'm doing here, they think I'm joking," says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK's first and ...

The John Innes Centre and its industrial and academic partners have been awarded UK Government funding to help deliver four ...

More than half of the UK’s wheat crop has been left exposed after a new strain of yellow rust overcame a key resistance gene ...

More than £21.5m in new government funding is being invested in farm innovation across England, with a major focus on cutting agricultural emissions while ...

Norwich's world-leading crop scientists at the John Innes Centre have won Defra funding for four ambitious projects that "unleash the ...

Aligning Great Britain’s crop protection rules with the EU’s is set to slash farming profit by up to £810m and trigger steep falls in UK crop production, according to new analysis commissioned by ...

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 ...

A survey led by Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) members suggests that Wheat Dwarf Virus (WDV) may be widespread than previously thought or recorded. Transmitted by the leafhopper ...

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 ...