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Rothamsted Manor: The 24-bedroom house for just £2M in one of Britain's priciest towns

Lawes Agricultural Trust, a charitable trust focusing on agricultural research, is selling Rothamsted Manor in Harpenden due to high running and renovation costs.

New generation of fungicide leads identified by researchers

A new study from Rothamsted Research has helped to identify microbial compounds with the potential to become future fungicide leads. Septoria tritici blotch is one of the most impo...

Precision bred crop production takes major step forward

Rothamsted Research has drilled the first crop in the UK to receive a Precision Bred Organism (PBO) Release Notice. The development marks a significant milestone for field-based ge...

Root uptake of growth boosting microbes governed by crop type – study

It is crop type that will actively determine uptake levels of ‘growth boosting microbes’, rather than the makeup of the actual soils they are growing in. This is according to the r...

Wicklow farm walk marks launch of €1.5m organic tillage and vegetables project

Royal Agricultural University students win wheat-growing contest at Diddly Squat

A team of students from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has been crowned the winner of this year’s Ceres Rural Crop Challenge at Jeremy Clarkson’s farm.

DAFM hiring bacteriologist to work on seed and feed stuff testing

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is looking to take on a bacteriologist to work at its Backweston Campus in Celbridge, Co. Kildare. The bacteriologist will...

Watch: Comparing grass growth from different fertiliser types

A series of test plots comparing grass growth from different fertiliser types was one of the many interesting demonstrations at the Teagasc ‘Farming For A Better Future’ open day a...

Sustainability at core of grassland crop trials in Tipperary

Farmers have been given a hands-on insight into how sustainability can be promoted in tillage and grass platforms with evidence supported by crop trials. It was part of the recent...

Goldcrop to focus on BYDV tolerance in trials

Only Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) tolerant varieties of winter barley will be included in future Goldcrop trial programmes. The company is also looking at the potential to asse...

Tillage Focus: Managing disease risk on a 1,200ac Cork arable farm

Almost three-quarters of Cork tillage farmer Ted O’Leary’s acreage is down to winter barley and that figure would be higher were it not for crop diversification rules. Farming 1,20...

Need To Know Oxfordshire

An exciting new project will pay farmers to help prevent flooding.