Scientists at the James Hutton Institute and partner organisations are working to understand the interactions between pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg, one of the most damaging bacterial plant diseases in the UK, responsible for annual losses of £50m for the potato…

Award-winning precision farming specialists SoilEssentials, has stepped in to help boost the technical training of the next generation of skilled agriculturalists. Dundee & Angus College, which is local to the Angus based firm, successfully applied for a £50k College Innovation Fund award from the Scottish Funding Council to support students…

As a finalist in this year’s awards we will be glued to our screens to find out if we have made the top spot! Awards night The winners of the 2020 British Farming Awards will be revealed for the first time ever in a virtual format, celebrating the fantastic individuals…

SoilEssentials are lucky enough to be shortlisted in the Agri-tech Innovator of the Year category with our Tuberzone innovation for potato growers, and this recognition certainly adds a little more icing to the 20th anniversary cake this year. The British Farming Awards 2020 has welcomed a record number of registrations…