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The Hallvard Seed Archive received more than 48,000 samples, including old varieties of wheat, beans and barley from the Asher Valley, as gene banks back up their collections.
By Diego FernándezPaddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
By Lucas MoreauFrom Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
By Isabel DuarteFrames showing the season's work and scenery in Europe's vineyards.
By Grace MwangiFrom mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work.
By Callum ReidA two-hectare trial near Bramley Cross that grows vegetables and soft fruit beneath raised solar panels has produced its first full season of data, with some crops doing better in partial shade.
By Samuel AdeyemiA shared online platform run by the growers' cooperative has matched more than 80 farms with regional mills on fixed-price deals, offering both sides shelter from swings in the commodity market.
By Elena SokolovaFarmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing.
By Hannah Okoye
