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Agriculture

July 2024

  • Spanish slug sitting on an onion

    Britons asked to pop a slug in the post to help science

    Snail mail replaced with slug mail as scientists need 1,000 grey field slugs to explore pest-resistant crops

June 2024

  • Mike Casey

    The rural network
    Electrifying the farm: ‘It could add a couple of hundred thousand to our bottom line’

  • An image taken from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying orange powder paint at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

    Brief letters
    Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint

  • Al Kuwait Livestock Ship Ordered To Leave Perth Port After Crew Cleared Of COVID-19<br>FREMANTLE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 16: Sheep are seen while being transported to the Al Kuwait in Fremantle Harbour on June 16, 2020 in Fremantle, Australia. The Al Kuwait livestock ship has been ordered to leave Western Australia, after all crew were cleared of COVID-19. The live sheep transporter was stranded at Fremantle Port after 21 of its 48 crew tested positive for coronavirus following its docking in Western Australia on 22 May. The ship was given a departure deadline of Wednesday 17 June, after the final crew members were cleared of having COVID-19 on Monday. The vessel has been granted an exemption to the northern summer live export ban, which began on June 1. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

    Parliamentary inquiry recommends passing laws to ban live sheep exports in Australia

  • A red combine harvests soybeans and pours them into a green container on the back of a tractor, with grain silos in the background.

    Economist suggests storing grain to prepare for next global emergency

  • CCTV should be mandatory in Victorian piggeries, parliamentary inquiry finds

  • The rural network
    Bird flu detected at egg farm in Sydney’s Hawkesbury

  • Lunch with...
    Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet

  • Australian live sheep export ban could set a ‘concerning precedent’, industry warns

  • Science Weekly
    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football – podcast

  • The Conversation
    What’s behind the global orange juice supply crisis and will Australian prices be affected?

    Dr Imran Ali for the Conversation
  • There's more than one bird flu: what recent outbreaks mean for Australia – video

  • The rural network
    My Climate View: online tool allows Australian farmers to project changes out to 2070

May 2024

  • Golden Rice is a genetically modified crop which helps the body produce vitamin A.

    The Observer view: When modified rice could save thousands of lives, it is wrong to oppose it

    The green movement’s attempts to block the cultivation of a grain enhanced with vitamin A is misguided
  • A scientists compares vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice and ordinary rice in Manila, the Philippines.

    ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

    Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn
    • The age of extinction
      Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

    • The rural network
      First human H5N1 case reported in Australia as another highly pathogenic strain of bird flu detected on Victorian farm

    • The rural network, Victoria
      Voter views on animal welfare are changing – and taking the live sheep export trade with them

      Gabrielle Chan
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