From smallholder farms to secondary schools, sustainable farming and environmental conservation are transforming communities ...

They use organic top-dressing fertiliser made from locally available materials like tithonia plant leaves and fish waste ...

Maize (Zea mays) is a critical crop for global food security and economic stability. However, it is highly vulnerable to various diseases such as northern leaf blight, common rust, and maize lethal ...

Lighter first and second cuts, along with slow maize germination across the north west, means farmers should be looking to push grass growth ...

A new computational biology pipeline has mapped out over 13,000 groups of protein-coding genes conserved across grasses, offering a powerful tool for researchers investigating gene function in these ...

We have been lucky with rain in June, receiving 52mm. This was a little too late for the early maturing wheats, as they have gone downhill fast. The ...

A recent run of low colostrum yields in fresh-calved cows prompted us to do some blood tests to try to track down the reason why. These showed the cows ...

Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...