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 ...

From: Dr Andrew Blewett, Exeter. Mr Peter Auty (Celebrate farmers, September 23) calls the national policy of halting biodiversity decline "idiotic", and having lost his battle to dig up peat bogs ...

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 ...

In one county in England, these "super rats" have built up ... Farmers in the U.S. lost about seven percent of their crops to pests in the 1940s. Since the 1980s, some 13 percent of crops are ...