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Spinach is a difficult crop for many home gardeners to grow. By the time it’s warm enough to plant it, it’s warm enough for spinach to bolt. Colleen...

SAC and QMS, with support from NFU Scotland, have organised an open afternoon focussing on the production of beef, from grass.

If the Prime Minister wants to protect consumers from shorter global food supplies by encouraging farmers to raise their output, he must help agriculture to meet the challenge by removing outdated production restraints imposed at a time when UK food security was not a national issue, the National Beef Association said today.

Abutilon has the unfortunate common name of the ‘Parlor Maple’, making it seem like a stuffy, Victorian conservatory plant. But much like the coleus, Abutilon just needs to be...

The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward 105 prime cattle, 2 young bulls, 22 OTM cattle, 722 prime hoggs, 2,725 prime lambs and 4,951 cast ewes & rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Thursday 3rd July, 2008.

International Grains Council raises its estimate for 2008 world wheat production to 658 mmt and also raises 2008-09 ending stock levels to 143 mmt.

SAC Chief Executive and Principal, Professor Bill McKelvey will announce, on Friday (4th July), that SAC will be designated a Higher Education Institute (HEI) at the beginning of August 2008.

CLA Wales Director Julian Salmon is urging Welsh farmers to take note of the first study of its kind to provide detailed measurement of farming’s greenhouse gas emissions and then go online and use the CALM (Carbon Accounting for Land Managers) calculator to measure their own farm’s output.

Judy emailed me to ask: “I recently talked to someone about tomato plants. What or how does a walnut tree effect them?” Black walnuts (Juglans nigra L.) are...

Commercial sheep farmers have a unique opportunity to look at more profitable sheep production when the UK’s first New Zealand Suffolk Sheep open day takes place in Shropshire on Saturday 12th July.

Land degradation is intensifying in many parts of the world, according to a study using data taken over a 20-year period, FAO announced this week.

Today we’re going to step out of the garden and tend to some other chores. The Home & Garden channel here at About.com is featuring Summer Safety, as we...

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An even higher proportion of this year’s wheat crop is being grown for yield alone, reveals RAGT Seeds’ annual wheat grower study published this week (June 30). And the trend away from growing for quality shows no sign of abating in 2008/9, increasing the opportunities for milling wheat growers still further.

July is an unpredictable month in the garden. About all you can count on is humidity. Gardeners just have to play it by ear. You know there...

Harrison and Hetherington this week announced that the 22nd Borderway Black and White Sale will be held at Carlisle on Saturday 29th November 2008. The annual sale will be preceded by a parade of all entered animals on the evening of Friday 28th November, according to Head Pedigree Auctioneer Glyn Lucas.

The agricultural sector in China’s Sichuan province has suffered enormous damage estimated at around $6 billion caused by last month’s devastating earthquake, FAO said today.

RABDF is urging all dairy producers to revise the value of family labour in their farm accounts to 4.43p per litre, in order to reflect the true cost of milk production.

The first ever Signet Sire Summary for a whole breed for distribution to all its members has been made available to the Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders’ Association.

Native breeds will make their debut in an exhibition at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show, the two day specialist business to business event organised by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers and to be staged at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 17 and 18 September.