UK households told exact date they should mow lawn for first time this year
Experts at home improvement specialists BLACK+DECKER have analysed Met Office data from 2024 to identify the ideal date for ...
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The Saving Standards Scramble
Bad news for coffee lovers: you’re going to be paying more for your morning brew in 2025. Brazil and Vietnam are the world’s ...
Cracking the Corn Code: Scientists Reveal the Genetic Secrets of Domestication
MaizeCODE is a genomic project analyzing the genetic basis of maize domestication. Researchers identified key regulatory ...
Children in Southern Africa ‘on brink of disaster’ after worst drought in 100 years
Children in Southern Africa are going hungry following the region’s worst drought in 100 years, as a charity leader warns ...
How smarter greenhouses could improve the UK’s food security
Around 70% of the Britain’s 12,000 greenhouses are more than 40 years old. So there’s a huge opportunity for hi-tech ...
Derbyshire villagers fear solar farms could leave nation with 'nothing to eat'
Derbyshire villagers fear potential approval of further solar farms could leave the nation with “net zero electricity in ...
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The urgent need to (re)consider lowland peat soils as intensive farmland
The Wildlife Trusts co-hosted a workshop at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, discussing the challenges lowland peat soils face and potential solutions. In this blog, Vicki Hird, Strategic Lead on ...