Farming is one of the riskiest professions in the world. That’s because the amount of capital a farmer invests each year to raise a crop is enormous, while the challenges they face from season to ...

Schoolchildren in North Devon have swapped textbooks for tractors in a new initiative that brings science and agriculture together in the classroom. Marwood School in Muddiford has completed a ...

A £3m exhibition planned for central London aims to showcase modern agriculture – and highlight the challenges faced by farmers as they produce food for a growing world population. Due to open at the ...

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The Crop Protection Association (CPA) criticises the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission report, Our Future in the Land, for its absence of science (Letters, 22 July). As much as they’d like ...

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Children up and down the UK will be putting their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) knowledge and skills into practice as they tackle exciting topics, from the life cycles of farm ...

As the UK prepares to approve genome editing, a leading food scientist argues it should also ease up on GM crops Empty shelves in supermarkets have reminded us that our food supply is rather more ...

Science agencies and farming organisations welcomed the announcement of measures to provide a more straightforward route to market for seeds and crops using advanced breeding technologies such as gene ...

Scientists from our top-rated Computer Science and Biosciences Departments have secured a major European funding to lead ...