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Britain’s heatwaves are slashing crop yields, disrupting trade, and hammering small businesses—raising concerns over ...
The theme for this year's maze is celebrating the attraction's 20-year history and it will be open from Saturday, July 19 ...
Lucrative contracts from several UK merchants have encouraged a number of arable farmers to grow grain maize in the UK, with returns reportedly surpassing several traditional crops. The UK is a ...
Gloucestershire is the driest county in the West, with less rainfall then Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol, Met Office ...
An area equivalent to roughly half the size of Greater London is now being used across England to grow maize to produce biogas, which experts warning is harming the environment ...
The coming weeks will see large acreages of land throughout the UK planted out in forage maize, writes Richard Halleron.
Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa need to diversify away from growing maize and switch to crops that are resilient to climate change and supply enough key micronutrients for the population, according ...
Dick Olela has been growing maize on his four-acre piece of land in the Migori county in western Kenya for the last three decades but fears his livelihood could be undermined by the government's ...
The small farm follows ancient knowledge of companion planting, specifically the Three Sisters — maize (corn), pole beans and squash or pumpkins — first cultivated by the Indigenous peoples of ...
New research has found that smallholder farmers in Malawi can grow bigger maize crops if they plant maize with legumes in deep beds with natural ditches to catch water alongside.
Despite the foreign-born population of the UK standing at 14.5 per cent, 39% of the 100 fastest growing companies in the UK have a foreign-born founder or co-founder.
A farm in Pulham Market, near Diss in Norfolk, has been granted planning permission for a maize maze, pumpkin patch and cut flower garden.