Lentils the worlds most nutritious Fast Food
The Lentil crop can survive much drier conditions than say Chickpeas but are wiped out periodically by ”Rust.” some 20,000 ha were wiped out in
Richard Higgins
December 3, 2023
Pod Cast: Warwick University on TB transmission
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140703-1028a.mp3
This discussion starts at 3.12 on transmission of TB in cattle. No one has considered soil fertility as a factor. The discussion involves the Farming Minister George Eustice and scientists from Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He says we have dozens of experts in DEFRA;………… but none of them are even considering soil fertility, or the lack of it, as a possible cause for these outbreaks of disease.
The Minister of Agriculture, David Heath, at the time I gave my lecture to the National Badger Trust, in 2012, is quoted on my last slide saying: “If there is a solution to this problem of TB and badgers, I will take it with both hands.”
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English grown Baked Beans
The is a really good example of persistence in plant breeding. Baked beans grown at a Lincolnshire farm as part of an innovative project led
Richard Higgins
December 1, 2023
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