There's an interesting piece in Time magazine on what's going on with food prices and market volatility . The news is not good - which is no surprise - but it does represent future opportunity. This is a time and, as they say, for years to come, that research and development is going to make...
You have every reason to ask. Why am I writing a post about the Nocton Dairy Consortium - clearly a non-horticultural concern - in a horticulture industry blog? It's not because of the decision to do factory farming in dairy. (I have my own opinions about that - which are not very positive, to say...
What a refreshing article; it is so good to hear encouragement to think outside the industry and bring in new practices and take time to develop new ideas.
Think of research and development as the science of curiosity Read the whole article .
You have expressed the worries I have, especially re the demise of so any research stations. The sixth form college where I work benefitted greatly from the cast off laboratory equipment from Wye College. There are many bright young students going through colleges and uni science courses whose talents...
Unfortunately, this is not a surprise. Even with the new R&D funds available, ornamentals was up against what remains a short-sighted and parameter-ridden view of the industry. Evidently, the TSB doesn't understand that growing is growing and that those research benefits Mr. Mason described that...
For those of you who remember the film, "Pretty Woman," you'll recall the scene where Julia Roberts' character goes back into the Rodeo Drive boutique that had turned her away a day earlier - only this time she comes in wearing designer clothes. As the sycophantic salespeople who had...
You'll have to excuse me, but I have seriously mixed feelings about the announcement of Defra's new Fruit and Vegetable Task Force . On the one hand, I'm more than happy to see the issue being addressed. It's past time that Hillary Benn paid adequate attention to what the horticulture...
I completely support and now is the time to campaign. We need about £100m more per year, according to evidence given to the EFRA Select Committee "Securing UK Food Supplies to 2050" for which I was their Specialist Adviser. I had been aware of the decline in agricultural and horticultural research...
Save our science please!
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