While climate change is likely to present significant challenges to agriculture in coming decades, it could also mean that ...

And yet, Millet’s scene depicting the work of gathering what others have left behind is playing out once again — not as a ...

Warmer weather is likely to see them take over apple orchards while strawberries, onions, wheat and oats will become harder ...

Gene-edited food can now be developed commercially in England following a change in the law, reports BBC. Supporters of the technology say it will speed up the development of hardier crops that ...

The government has committed to delivering the secondary legislation required for farmers to grow precision-bred crops by the ...

Gene-edited crops are now legal in countries including England and Kenya. “In many cases they’re just knocking out a gene,” Mr Ringeisen says of gene editors. “There’s no foreign DNA.” ...

The UK Government’s commitment to introducing the secondary legislation required for farmers in England to grow ...

UK cabinet minister George Eustice wants his plans to allow gene-edited crops to be grown in England to be extended to both Scotland and Wales. Mr Eustice has written to the Scottish and Welsh ...

A spending bill passed by Congress late last year provides $220 million to eight states, including all of New England, for ...

A lack of water risks widespread crop failures, and dry soil may also hinder harvesting. A drought was last declared in England in 2018, and before that, in 2011. But “the extremely dry ...