Agriculture

  • TechnologyAOL

    Smart vertical farming system allows users to maintain crops from anywhere

    This futuristic looking cube is a smart vertical farming system that allows users to maintain crops at any time and from anywhere. South Korea-based company n.thing's Planty Cubes connect together just like Lego bricks. Every container has

  • NewsAOL

    Debt-laden Co-op to flog its farms

    While the Co-op's bank losses have hit £1.3bn there's a smidgen of good news for the troubled group - rising land value prices. The Co-op is set to to sell off 17,800 acres of farmland across England and Scotland. The timing is

  • ScienceAOL

    Wood you believe it? Man creates car from timber

    Istvan Puskas from Hungary has spent the last four months creating something truly unique, a car crafted almost entirely from wood. Mr Puskas, a 51-year-old agricultural worker has been busy in his workshop in Tiszaors carving his creation out

  • BusinessAOL

    Farmers continue milk blockades

    Dairy farmers blockaded milk processing plants for a second night as they continued to show their anger at milk prices. Campaign group Farmers for Action (FFA) blocked the entrances to a Robert Wiseman dairy in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, and

  • NewsAOL

    The secret commercial property boom

    Martin Keene/PA Wire A new survey has revealed a surprise surge in demand for commercial farmland. The RICS Rural Land Market Survey, showed prices reaching record levels during the second half of last

  • LifestyleAOL

    Running a smallholding - how to get started

    Many of us will have dreamed of a simple life in the country, eating fresh veg from the garden and morning-fresh eggs from our own chickens. Top related searches: pig farming farms for sale keeping chickens hen houses keeping ducks

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