Carbon-neutral farming policies will fail without a science based approach, new report warns

Carbon-neutral farming policies will fail without a science based approach, new report warns

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
The development and application of agricultural technologies must become a priority for the UK government if the farming sector is ...
What are the barriers to engineering perennial, high-yield grain crops?

What are the barriers to engineering perennial, high-yield grain crops?

Mike Abram | Farmers Weekly | 
Perennial grain crops –those you only plant once before harvesting multiple times – would potentially deliver many favourable on-farm attributes ...
Frying foods like wheat and potatoes can produce a carcinogen, acrylamide. A CRISPR gene-edited wheat in development could prevent that

Frying foods like wheat and potatoes can produce a carcinogen, acrylamide. A CRISPR gene-edited wheat in development could prevent that

Richard Allison | Farmers Weekly | 
Asparagine is a naturally occurring amino acid, and while most is made into protein, plants such as wheat can accumulate ...
Viewpoint on COP26: 'Agriculture is a solution to climate crisis, not the main problem’

Viewpoint on COP26: ‘Agriculture is a solution to climate crisis, not the main problem’

Per Frankelius | Farmers Weekly | 
Among the many documents on the table [at the COP26 climate talks] will be the latest climate report from the ...
UK sugar beet farmers could be growing gene-edited, disease-resistant crops within 5 years

UK sugar beet farmers could be growing gene-edited, disease-resistant crops within 5 years

Johann Tasker | Farmers Weekly | 
[British Sugar] is investigating gene-edited beet seed as a long-term solution to [virus yellows] disease, which devastated crops across eastern ...
With sugar output down nearly 25%, UK beet farmers pressure government to lift ban on neonic pesticides

With sugar output down nearly 25%, UK beet farmers pressure government to lift ban on neonic pesticides

David Jones | Farmers Weekly | 
Sugar beet processor British Sugar said that just over two months into the beet harvesting campaign, white sugar production is ...
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UK extends license for glyphosate 5 years, will put in place post-Brexit review process

Mike Abram | Farmers Weekly | 
Speaking at the virtual British Crop Production Council (BCPC) 2020 congress, Darren Flynn, head of active substances delivery for the ...
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Post-Brexit UK likely to back crop gene editing, but won’t abandon EU’s strict GMO rules

Philip Clarke | Farmers Weekly | 
Moves to facilitate the development of gene editing once the UK is free from EU regulation at the end of ...
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France poised to lift neonicotinoid insecticide ban to save pest-ravaged sugar beet industry

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
The French government is planning to lift a blanket ban on the use of neonicotinoids to help save its sugar ...
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Comprehensive pig genomes could advance animal gene editing—and help produce more bacon

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
For the first time, scientists have decoded the whole genetic make-up of pigs in a development that they say will ...
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Ban of neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments pushes UK farmers to grow non-GMO disease-resistant wheat

Louise Impey | Farmers Weekly | 
Season-long protection against barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) without the use of insecticides is set to become a reality through ...
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Bayer, UK farmers appeal EU neonicotinoid insecticide ban, citing lack of scientific evidence

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
Lawyers acting on behalf of the [National Farmers Union] are in court battling to overturn a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, ...
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EU could make 25% of its farmland organic by 2030 to combat biodiversity loss

Isabel Davies | Farmers Weekly | 
The EU could set a target of one-quarter of agricultural land in Europe to be farmed organically by 2030, with ...
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French agriculture minister says glyphosate key to sustainable farming, raising doubts about proposed weedkiller bans

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
France’s agriculture minister has declared glyphosate is an essential tool of the agroecological transition, raising hopes of a change in ...
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UK farmers struggle to control ‘largely symptomless’ virus without neonicotinoid insecticides

Lucinda Dann | Farmers Weekly | 
A mild autumn and winter combined with a build-up in aphid numbers since the loss of neonicotinoid seed treatments has ...
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Neonicotinoid insecticide ban fuels ‘big rise’ in cabbage stem flea beetle damage to UK oilseed rape crops

David Jones | Farmers Weekly | 
Oilseed rape crops across southern England are seeing a big rise in pest damage from cabbage stem flea beetles, with ...
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‘Unintended consequences’: UK restrictions on neonicotinoid insecticides may have harmed bees

Johann Tasker | Farmers Weekly | 
One of Britain’s biggest beekeepers says he must relocate hundreds of hives because cabbage stem flea beetle has destroyed so ...
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Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer boosts cancer risk? New analysis challenges scientific consensus on glyphosate

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have published a new scientific analysis of glyphosate (PDF), the active ingredient in Monsanto’s ...
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Conventional dairy farms do less environmental damage than their organic counterparts

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
Organic farming has long been considered more environmentally friendly than intensive, conventional farming. But a study led by scientists at ...
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Viewpoint: David Zaruk’s defense of science, glyphosate make him a ‘true farming hero’

David Alvis | Farmers Weekly | 
Compared with some of history’s more notable rivalries – Wellington and Napoleon, Gladstone and Disraeli, Ali and Frazier – a ...
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France to vote on mandatory label for meat and dairy products from animals fed GMOs

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
French politicians have backed a proposal for mandatory labelling of meat and dairy products from animals raised on genetically modified ...
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UK scientists hopeful government will emulate USDA decision to not regulate gene-edited crops

Jonathan Riley | Farmers Weekly | 
US regulators have ruled crops altered using gene-editing techniques do not need to come under the same restrictions as genetically ...
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How injecting genes into pea plants could introduce disease resistance and improve nutrition

David Jones | Farmers Weekly | 
Scientists are injecting genes into pea plants to speed up introducing better disease resistance and improving the nutrition of this ...
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European farm groups defend neonicotinoids as environmental NGOs calls for total ban to protect bees

Philip Case | Farmers Weekly | 
[Editor's note: On Feb. 28, the European Food Safety Authority issued a report concluding that neonicotinoid insecticides pose risks to ...
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Spain expands GMO corn production by 20%, UK eyes gene editing

Farmers Weekly | 
Four countries in the EU grew commercial genetically modified (GM) maize in 2016, with Spain adopting the largest area. According ...
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Will advanced breeding technologies render GMO crops obsolete?

Caroline Stocks | Farmers Weekly | 
Genetically modified (GM) crop technology is not the answer to helping UK farmers produce more food, according to the head ...
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UK’s Labour Party ‘pledges to ban’ neonicotinoid insecticides if it takes power

Johann Tasker | Farmers Weekly | 
Neonicotinoid seed treatments will be banned if Labour forms the next government, according to a leaked draft of the party’s ...
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UK farmers push back against ‘pseudo-science attack’ on herbicide glyphosate

Oliver Hill | Farmers Weekly | 
Hundreds of farmers across Britain are coming together in a concerted effort to show politicians and the public why glyphosate ...
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