UK is falling behind on food production research

Successive Conservative governments have shut down parts of the UK agricultural research insitutions.  There will be a consequence in food security. Note the following;

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony today for a new state-of-the-art USDA grape research facility on the Cornell AgriTech campus.

The over 70,000 square foot facility will be named the National Grape Improvement Center and will house the ARS Grape Genetics Research Unit and ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit. In addition, four Cornell grapevine research projects will move into the research facility.

Now, as climate change develops, we are alrady growing grapes and producing award-winning wines.  We could do better if we put morre money into research.

SEFF – Soil, Environment, Food and Farming Bill Butterworth, Land Research Ltd. 26 June ’24