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Farming

July 2024

  • A Russell's viper snake coiled on the grass

    Snakes beware: reptiles targeted across Bangladesh after rise in sightings of Russell’s viper

  • Chickens at a commercial poultry farm.

    Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop ‘environmental scandal’ in River Severn

  • A car is stranded in flood waters in Somerset in January 2023

    Floods fuelled 19% drop in income from farming in England in 2023

  • A sculpture of an avocado at the town's entrance in Ziracuaretiro, Michoacán. Photograph: Marco Ugarte/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias – podcast

  • Britons asked to pop a slug in the post to help science

  • Country diary
    Country diary: The glory of a steaming pile of muck

  • From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

  • Watchdog investigates Defra over authorisation of bee-killing pesticide

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Itching and scratching after a day of hay-baling

  • Weatherwatch: Buckwheat, miracle crop for a future of extreme heat

  • Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A family ritual, a familiar route

  • Joss Naylor obituary

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1949: it’s a hard life for the flockmaster and dog

  • ‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future

June 2024

  • Mike Casey

    The rural network
    Electrifying the farm: ‘It could add a couple of hundred thousand to our bottom line’

    Some Australian broadacre farmers are eager to switch from diesel to electric – but the machinery they need is not yet commercially available
  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

    Crowdfunding scheme salvages ‘imperfect’ fruit and veg following the country’s wettest autumn, winter and spring on record
    • Path to power
      Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

    • River Wye needs ‘protection zone’, say Greens and Fearnley-Whittingstall

    • Belching livestock to incur green levy in Denmark from 2030

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