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Badger cull: tranquil nights, uneasy vigil and a change of police tactics

11 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham: There is little activity, no gunfire or marksmen in sight, but is the silence of the countryside misleading?
Hops are the herbs of beer: the growth of local harvest groups

11 Sep 2014: Palace Pint (our eighth in the series) collectively grows hops to brew their own beer. Erica Buist gets a handle on the sticky harvest
Monoculture is failing Nicaragua's farmers

Guardian Professional, 11 Sep 2014: NGOs must acknowledge the risks to livelihoods and food security and teach smallholders to diversify for higher profits, writes Joshua Smith
Badger cull starts in Somerset and Gloucestershire

9 Sep 2014: Government says scheme is under way in the two counties to limit the spread of TB in cows
Bristol to provide urban farming inspiration as EU Green Capital

Guardian Professional, 9 Sep 2014: Gearing up for its role as EU Green Capital 2015, Bristol’s agricultural scene is growing, with a positive social impact on its community
From the archive, 9 September 1989: Organic farming gets boost in US

9 Sep 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 9 September 1989: Study reveals that chemical fertilisers and insecticides do not necessarily result in better crop yields than organic methods
The fields are alive with the sounds of silage making

8 Sep 2014: Country diary: South Uist: Each tractor pauses briefly and, as the driver watches over his shoulder, another perfectly rolled and bound bale is disgorged
We still don’t know what we are eating – here’s how to tackle food fraud

7 Sep 2014: Lisa Jack for the Conversation: As the review into the horsemeat scandal shows, food networks are too prone to abuse. But there are ways to fix this mess
Europe gathers a good harvest but Russian ban hits fruit and veg export

5 Sep 2014: Weather largely beneficial to most growers except for olive farmers and winemakers
Badger cull to resume next week

5 Sep 2014: Second round of night-time shoots in Gloucestershire and Somerset to begin but without independent monitors
EU under pressure to allow GM food imports from US and Canada

5 Sep 2014: Large businesses lobbying intensely to undermine safety regime in new trade deal, campaigners warn
The Pig Society? Life in South Pork

5 Sep 2014: Taking turns to feed and water, a small group (our fifth community project) are collectively raising nine pigs to make sausages, and saving money at the same time
How to raise animals collectively

5 Sep 2014: Rearing animals together means sharing the work (although it also means sharing the sausages) - here are useful tips from the Pig Society
Perfect weather yields bumper cereal harvest for British farmers

5 Sep 2014: Long sunny spells after a mild winter and early spring delivers a bounty of wheat, barley and oats
The asparagus comeback: forgotten seedlings found on Formby golf course

Guardian Professional, 5 Sep 2014: Despite the decline in Britain’s food self-sufficiency, asparagus farming is reviving along the sand dunes of the Merseyside coast