It is not only the combines which have been busy on our farms these past weeks. Earlier this month I went out with our local beekeepers at the Bayer Research Farm near Cambridge and helped with a rather stickier
Sometimes you have to remind people that farmers are not recreational sprayers of pesticide – controlling pests and diseases is a critical part of providing consumers with food. And so to couch and
We’ll have to stop growing winter wheat was the answer I gave to a question last week. What was the question? It came from a top weed scientist; he asked me ‘Have you thought about what you’ll do in the UK