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Susan Watts

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Teenage Education Day Credit: Rothamsted Research

Teenagers take on agriculture

There was a buzz of hands-on excitement and challenging inquiry today as teenagers came face-to-face with worms and cereal fields, insects in a grain silo...and the trade-off tree

12 Sep 2018

Wormscience booklet Credit: @wormscience

GET TO KNOW YOUR WORMS IN 30 MINUTES

Calling all farmers: join the first national survey of earthworms on farmland and discover how they support environmental stewardship and improve crop productivity sustainably.

07 Sep 2018

ONE GIANT LEAP FOR WHEAT

A major international research collaboration has revealed what makes wheat tick, promising discoveries to combat disease and produce higher yields more sustainably in tough conditions.

16 Aug 2018

Ash Dieback Credit: Kevin King, Rothamsted Research

MODEL WAY TO PROTECT TREES

Reducing year-to-year variability in the demand for trees for planting could reduce the import of exotic pests and diseases that can damage local forests and woodlands.

15 Aug 2018

VOX POPS CEREAL CHALLENGE

A popular technique for studying genes from different organisms plus a new carrier to transfer them to plants have yielded a powerful tool for understanding crops better.

13 Aug 2018

SETBACK FOR GENE EDITING

European lawyers have ruled that a crop whose performance has been altered by a modern genome technique must pass the same checks as GM crops that include foreign genes.

25 Jul 2018

rice colombia Credit: Rothamsted Research

SPACE-AGE TECH OFFERS TIMELY CROP DATA RELIEF

Earth observation data from satellites and drones promise support for hard-pressed farmers in Colombia who are seeking to improve the viability of the country’s agriculture.