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Realistic prices should underpin food supply chain, says EU report

By Mike Stones

Improving the efficiency and competitiveness of the European food supply chain will be achieved only with realistic food prices not the current artificially low ones, according to a new report from the EU’s European Economic and Social Committee.

Project findings show UK wheat yields boosted by root bacteria

By Staff Reporter

Increased yields of UK wheat varieties through the use of plant growth promoting root bacteria could render chemical fertilizers obsolete, if the preliminary results of a four-year, international study are substantiated.