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Nibbles: Camel sweets, UG99, British woods, Rice, India and climate change, Soay sheep, Fish, Seed fair, Barn owls, Food maps, Earthworms

Chocolate made from camel milk for the first time. And last? “Slow rusting” genes from Ethiopian wheat landraces. Brits (and Yanks, for that matter) look for ancient trees in woodlands becoming ever less distinctive. The world needs GM rice, but alas “the environment for accepting genetically modified crops is not as good as it should …

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Features: Ug99

Dave Wood comments on UG99 myths, and then adds, perhaps provocatively, that The current fashion for the on-farm conservation of crop diversity ignores the inevitable conservation of diverse plant diseases, some of which, like Ug99 of wheat, can cross continents on the wind and threaten crop production globally. “Ignores” may be a bit strong here. …

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Nibbles: Bees, Bourbon, Cattle, Ug99, Horses, Neanderthal, Bear, Organic, Flowers

Bees? We don’t need no stinkin’ bees. “…a distinct product of America…” Friesians? We don’t need no stinkin’ Friesians. Kenya tests for Ug99 resistance. Iceland’s horses walk funny. Neanderthals ate snails. Bear meat? We don’t need no stinkin’ bear meat. Organic agriculture in China gets NPR treatment, survives. Rice? We don’t need no stinkin’ rice.