Month: February 2017

The Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (Seeds and Propagation section) of the European Commission has approved a ...

Lancashire will be the first area of the UK to harvest strawberries this year after family run Medlar Fruit Farms ...

Adopting fruit-wall orchards instead of traditional systems could make mechanical pruning of apple trees easier and reduce costs according to ...

A ‘new generation’ of environmentally friendly pesticides is a step closer thanks to researchers and an insect-killing fungus. Molecular virologists ...

Two new fungicides have been identified for the control of apple canker, caused by the fungus Neonectria ditissima, while research ...

The following Extensions of Minor Use (EAMUs) were issued in January 2017 with the involvement of AHDB Horticulture in order to ...

Growers of some vegetables in Ireland are almost extinct as there is only one iceberg lettuce farmer left and only ...

The leading Dutch biocontrol company, Koppert Biological Systems, has been awarded third place in this international award for its ‘beevision’ ...

Growing vegetables comes naturally to many people but now astronauts have just harvested their first crop of cabbage on the ...