Dutch substrate supplier Grodan has launched a video to help growers explain sustainable growing to their customers in a format that can be accessed on a smartphone via a QR code.
Growing crops under LEDs "means you can put a facility down in the middle of a town and grow crops right where you need them", according to Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chief executive Graham Ward.
BlightCast weather forecasting access gives growers an opportunity to apply pesticide treatment.
The UK cannot deliver sustainable food production without greater investment in coordinated research, according to a Parliamentary report that urges greater state involvement rather than relying on the private sector.
April downpours flood Vale of Evesham event site and cause asparagus crop to fall dormant.
Kent top-fruit grower Moor Organics used last week's East Kent Fruit Society blossom walk to show off its Italian-made Ladurner tractor-mounted mechanical weeder, which the firm said allows it to keep on top of weeds without the need for using herbicides.
A number of Britain's leading crop-sprayer manufacturers will show a two-nozzle pesticide container rinsing system at the Cereals Event 2012 (Boothby Graffoe, 13-14 June), where farmers and growers can try it on the Hypro-EU stand.
While drought has been declared across parts of eastern and southern England, field vegetable growers in Scotland are suffering the effects of prolonged wet weather, which one described as disastrous.
RHS science head Dr Roger Williams has left the society to take a new role working for the New Zealand crops levy board.
Automating common crop cultivation and harvesting tasks will mean "re-evaluating the whole approach to agriculture", according to Harper Adams University College head of engineering Professor Simon Blackmore.
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