In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. "When I tell people what I'm doing here, they think I'm joking," says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK's first and ...

While climate change is likely to present significant challenges to agriculture in coming decades, it could also mean that crops such as chickpeas, soyabeans and oranges are widely grown across the UK ...

In the next 50-odd years, Britons could be enjoying diets rich in locally-grown sorghum, okra, chickpeas, and oranges. According to the results of an unprecedented new mapping study, researchers have ...

John Whitton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Privately-owned UK vertical farming business Jones Food Company has opened its second growing site for herbs and leafy greens. The so-called JFC2 project in Lydney, Gloucestershire, got off the ground ...

A U-turn on inheritance tax plans for farmers raises more questions about political judgement in government. The government says it has listened and raised the tax threshold on inherited farmland to ...