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‘Unintended consequences’: UK restrictions on neonicotinoid insecticides may have harmed bees
One of Britain’s biggest beekeepers says he must relocate hundreds of hives because cabbage stem flea beetle has destroyed so ...
Mapped British honey bee genome could help safeguard hives against infectious disease
Efforts to protect the UK's native honey bees could be helped by research that maps their entire genetic make-up. Experts ...
Audio: Greenpeace, UK farmers and chemical industry square off over neonicotinoid pesticide ban
The debate over neonicotinoids continued ... during a BBC Radio segment as farmers, environmentalists and the chemical industry weighed in on ...
UK neonicotinoid ban invites spread of deadly virus yellows disease, sugar beet farmers warn
When I was elected to the role of NFU Sugar vice-chairman, it was foremost in my mind that every grower’s ...
Teenagers view scientific innovation as key to sustainable farming, UK survey shows
Four out of ten teenagers feel that their generation should be much more interested in where their food comes from, ...
Post-Brexit, UK should abandon EU’s misguided biotech crop rules, researcher urges
Failure to diverge from some aspects of EU regulation of crop biotechnology and new breeding techniques (NBTs) after Brexit will ...
UK officials say they will enact ‘science-based’ biotech crop regulations
[On September 14th] the I published an article regarding the future of gene editing following a letter from 30 leading scientists to ...
Brexit could free UK farmers from Europe’s stringent GMO regulations
Like most United Kingdom citizens, English farmer Andrew Osmond lives with a certain sense of uncertainty brought on by Brexit ...
UK could retain Europe’s strict regulations on GMO crops following Brexit
In a position paper, [published August 23rd] the government said that EU GMO rules would continue to apply in the U.K ...
Precision drones, driverless tractors bring automated agriculture closer to fruition in the UK
Farming drones from China may soon be buzzing across British fields as a result of a new partnership between Chinese ...
