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Agriculture

June 2024

  • Lunch With Isabella Tree Observer Food Monthly OFM June 2024

    Lunch with...
    Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

  • A bumble bee hovers over bright yellow gorse in Devon, south-west England

    Wildlife experts urge action on pesticides as UK insect populations plummet

  • Sheep in a livestock transport wagon

    Australian live sheep export ban could set a ‘concerning precedent’, industry warns

  • A scientist shows "Golden Rice" and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos<br>A scientist shows "Golden Rice" (L) and ordinary rice at the laboratory of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna south of Manila, August 14, 2013. Bruce Tolentino, Deputy Director of the International Rice Research Institute, said his team has been perfecting their decades-old research on “Golden Rice”, which consists of genetically-modified rice grains infused with beta-carotene, a chemical substance responsible in producing Vitamin A in the body. He also said,“ In a Vitamin A-enriched rice, what the scientists did was to select three genes out of roughly 30,000 genes in a rice plant. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: FOOD AGRICULTURE BUSINESS)

    Science Weekly
    Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘The Silicon Valley of turf’: how the UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football – podcast

  • The Conversation
    What’s behind the global orange juice supply crisis and will Australian prices be affected?

    Dr Imran Ali for the Conversation

  • There's more than one bird flu: what recent outbreaks mean for Australia – video

  • The rural network
    My Climate View: online tool allows Australian farmers to project changes out to 2070

May 2024

  • Golden Rice is a genetically modified crop which helps the body produce vitamin A.

    The Observer view: When modified rice could save thousands of lives, it is wrong to oppose it

  • A scientists compares vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice and ordinary rice in Manila, the Philippines.

    ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

  • A line of people walk along the edge of a filed thickly planted with sunflowers. People can be seen among the flowers taking pictures.

    The age of extinction
    Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

  • Hens

    The rural network
    First human H5N1 case reported in Australia as another highly pathogenic strain of bird flu detected on Victorian farm

  • The rural network, Victoria
    Voter views on animal welfare are changing – and taking the live sheep export trade with them

    Gabrielle Chan

  • The rural network
    ‘We call it our farm’: meet the Australians swapping supermarket shopping for farm shares

  • The rural network
    Hot sauce and a muster dog: on the ground at Beef2024, the southern hemisphere’s biggest cattle industry expo

  • Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

  • What is antimicrobial resistance and how big a problem is it?

  • Australian government offers five year $107m package to ban live sheep exports in 2028

  • The rural network
    Move to protect Australian beef industry from EU land clearing laws criticised by scientists

  • I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops

    Guy Singh-Watson
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