British food and drink
Purple patch for British blueberries as sales boom
Whether they add them to smoothies or salads, or just pop them straight in their mouths, Britons are eating more blueberries than ever before. But whereas supermarket shelves used...
Business
‘Targets are unrealistic’: sacked fruit picker tells of treatment on Kent farm
It had been a sweltering morning picking cherries beneath plastic polytunnels in July when Ilyas finally lost his...
Agriculture
How many Black farmers are there in the US? Why we doubt the government stats | Nathan A Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki
Earlier this summer, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released data that suggested that, after years of decline,...
Environment
‘You don’t need animals to make real meat’: the man who grows chicken in a lab
I’m looking at the future. I have to squint: it’s a slight opaqueness on the surface of a...
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Improved version of ‘Robocrop’ only picks ripe raspberries
A new version of the world’s first raspberry-picking robot, a four-armed machine powered by artificial intelligence and able...