Ireland, best-known for its grass-fed beef and dairy, has launched a €12mn crop cultivation scheme to boost grain production as the war in Ukraine creates a crunch in global supplies. The Irish government on Tuesday approved a payment of €400 per hectare to encourage farmers to plant additional barley, wheat and oats, in a return to a “wartime tillage” programme
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If you’ve been thinking for a while that lollipops could improved by more hops, then today is your lucky day. Coors Light has decided it’s high time for beer-flavoured lollipops – and they’re on sale now. Yes, it has come to this. Witch March Madness now upon us in the form of the NCAA basketball tournament, Coors Light wants to
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To mitigate issues, Canadian fertiliser company Nutrien has already announced plans to increase its output of potash by nearly one million tons this year, but warns harvests may be affected. Potash, which is a vital ingredient necessary for producing nitrogen-containing fertilisers, is made largely in markets such as Canada, however Russia and Belarus are the next biggest suppliers and without their input,
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