The HTA, in partnership with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), have developed a one-day conference, which will be held at the National Agri-Food Innovation Campus at Sand Hutton, near York, on Wednesday 17 February.
The conference aims to cl
The other day when I meant to do some gardening but it was raining so hard (again) that I didn’t, Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are a-Changin’ popped into my head. It’s been my earworm ever since.
Dylan may have been singing about change of a different
Pellenc has announced a host of new features for their new range of batteries ensuring a quiet, powerful, low vibration and low emission operation for users. Pellenc is sold exclusively in the UK by Etesia UK.
There are 18 tools available in Pellenc’
The 70th SALTEX exhibition exceeded all expectations after an independent audit confirmed the exhibition as the largest turf management event in the UK with a total of 8,714 unique individuals attending. Now, the visitor surveys have been flooding in
In the fight against climate change, trees are an ally. They suck in carbon dioxide, reducing the harmful greenhouse gases. But there’s a problem: we’re asking them to work overtime.
Trees can’t absorb enough of the carbon dioxide humanity is throwin
The David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) Scholarship Season closes this month. Those who want to apply for a scholarship have just three weeks left to do so before the deadline - 31 January 2016.
The last DCF Scholarship Season saw a total of £14,000 awa
A species of rare UK butterfly is under threat after a widespread tree disease caused its only habitat to virtually disappear.
According to research, the population of White-letter Hairstreak butterflies has dropped by 96% in the last 40 years.
Exper
Dennis and SISIS have announced that they will once again be exhibiting at the Golf Industry Show (GIS) in San Diego, California on 10 and 11 February 2016 at Booth 2517.
Last year, at the exhibition held in Texas, both Dennis and SISIS reported the s
A Tameside housing trust has been fined after a worker suffered severe injuries to his left hand when it was struck by a metal blade on a ride-on mower.
The 24-year-old from Stockport, who has asked not to be named, sustained several broken bones an
Work on the flood-damaged Brunton Park pitch of Carlisle United Football Club, has started with 15 to 20mm of the existing surface set to be removed ahead of a complete replacement of the turf, due to start at the beginning of next week.
Industry spe
Snowdrops and star gazing, stunning views of the Highlands, inner city allotment veg patches, scenic Scottish burns and sensory flower borders are some of the horticultural highlights in 66 new gardens opening to the public for Scotland’s Gardens in
Etesia UK has announced affordable lease and hire purchase finance options to allow its customers flexibility when purchasing new Etesia and Pellenc machinery.
Designed to give buyers the power to enjoy their Etesia and/or Pellenc machinery straight a
Good, positive news. 
"Commercial building in cities and chancellor’s £12bn pledge to boost infrastructure spending lifts industry’s outlook
Construction firms ended 2015 in party mood after a recovery in housebuilding during December.
According to t
ONE of the UK's first acoustic gardens is to feature at this year's Royal Horticultural Society Malvern Spring Festival.
It will be designed by Pippa Shennan of Wotton-under-Edge, near Stroud, and form part of the Festival Gardens at the event on the
Despite December’s record rainfall, which led to thousands of people being flooded and the highest river levels ever seen in England, water restrictions due to drought could still be imposed in some parts of the country by the summer, say Britain’s l
A RIBBLE Valley business left “devastated” after water wiped out £70,000 worth of stock has been hit by more flooding.
Read Garden Centre was under four feet of water on Boxing Day as flood water affected large parts of the borough.
And more water fl
Overlooking the North Sea, Newburgh on Ythan Golf Club in Aberdeenshire faces the wrath of the ocean’s high tides from time to time. Fortunately for course manager Jim Peace, he has a range of ICL products on hand to help.
Newburgh may have the odd ba
The latest provisional statistics from the Met Office confirm December has broken records both for rainfall and temperature
The month was not only the wettest December on record, but also the wettest calendar month overall since records began in 1910
More than 100,000 small business owners and self-employed workers have joined forces to fight a Government proposal that would force them to file tax returns four times a year instead of annually.
Last week, The Telegraph revealed that complying with
Normal weather is now a “thing of the past”, a leading climate change scientist has said, after storms and heavy rain caused devastating floods in parts of Britain.
December was record-breaking in both warmth and rainfall, according to the Met Off
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