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Agriculture in the United Kingdom

Index Agriculture in the United Kingdom

Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area, employs 1.5% of its workforce (476,000 people) and contributes 0.62% of its gross value added (£9.9 billion). [1]

235 relations: Abacarus hystrix, Acid rain, Acts of Union 1707, Agricultural education, Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875, Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1883, Agricultural lime, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, Agriculture, Agriculture Act 1947, Agriculture in Scotland, Agriculture in Wales, Alopecurus myosuroides, American Civil War, Anaerobic digestion, Angus cattle, Animal Welfare Act 2006, Anthemis, Anthrax, Avena fatua, Avena sterilis, Badger, BBC, Beef Shorthorn, Beekeeping in the United Kingdom, Berkshire, Biofuel, Biomass, Black bean aphid, Black Death, Bluetongue disease, Bovine leukemia virus, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, British Isles, British Landrace pig, British Saddleback, Bromus sterilis, Brucellosis, Capitalism, Cerastium fontanum, Chaetocnema concinna, Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, Chenopodium album, Cirsium, Climate change, Colony collapse disorder, Combine harvester, Common Agricultural Policy, Common ostrich, Common wood pigeon, ..., Copper sulfate, Copper(I) chloride, Corn Laws, Countryside Stewardship Scheme, Crop rotation, Cumberland pig, Cydia nigricana, Dairy cattle, Dairy Shorthorn, Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, David King (chemist), Delia antiqua, Delia platura, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Deroceras reticulatum, Dinitro-ortho-cresol, Directive (European Union), Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Ditylenchus dipsaci, Duck, Earthworm, East Anglia, Elymus repens, Energy security, England, English land law, Environment Agency, European Economic Community, European rabbit, European Union, Fallopia japonica, Fallow deer, Farmers Weekly, Feed-in tariff, Feudalism in England, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food Standards Agency, Foot-and-mouth disease, Forestry in the United Kingdom, Free-range eggs, Galeopsis, Galium aparine, Game (hunting), Genetically modified food, Geranium molle, Glebionis segetum, Globodera pallida, Globodera rostochiensis, Goose, Green pound, Gross value added, Harper Adams University, Harvest, Henry VIII of England, Hereford cattle, Heterodera avenae, Heterodera goettingiana, Heterodera schachtii, Holstein Friesian cattle, Honey bee, House of Plantagenet, Ice age, Intensive animal farming, Jethro Tull (agriculturist), Juncus, Kent, Kingdom of Great Britain, Lake District, Large White pig, Legume, Lib–Lab pact, Lincolnshire, List of agriculture ministries, List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom, Manure, Margaret Thatcher, Matricaria, Meligethes, Milk quota, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom), Miscanthus, Mite, Mycobacterium bovis, Myzus persicae, Napoleonic Wars, National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, National parks of England and Wales, New Labour, Newcastle disease, Nitrate vulnerable zone, Nitrogen, Nitrogen fixation, Normans, Northern Ireland, Open-field system, Organic farming, Oscinella frit, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Peasant, Pennines, Persicaria maculosa, PH, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Phyllotreta, Plaid Cymru, Pleistocene, Polygonum aviculare, Populus, Potash, Potassium, Pound sterling, Pseudorabies, Psylliodes chrysocephala, Pteridium aquilinum, Rabbit, Rabies, Rain, Ranunculus, Rapeseed, Red deer, Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, Rhopalosiphum padi, Romney Marsh, Romney sheep, Royal Agricultural University, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Rumex, Salmonella, Scotland, Scots law, Scottish Agricultural College, Scottish Highlands, Scrapie, Set-aside, Sheep farming in Wales, Sinapis arvensis, Sitobion avenae, Sitona, Sitona lineatus, Small White pig, Smallholding, Snowdonia, Sodium chlorate, Soil Association, South West England, Spergula arvensis, Stellaria media, Sulfuric acid, Supreme Head of the Church of England, Swine vesicular disease, Syria, Tenant farmer, Tenant-right, Thames Valley, The Daily Telegraph, The Downs (ship anchorage), The Guardian, The Independent, Threshing, Treaty of Union, Turkey (bird), Turnip, United States, Urine, Value added, Varroa destructor, Veronica persica, Veterinary medicine, Victory garden, Villein, Wales, Warble fly, Welsh pig, Wild boar, Willow, Women's Land Army, World Health Organization, World War I, World War II, Writtle University College, 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak. Expand index (185 more) »

Abacarus hystrix

Abacarus hystrix (cereal rust mite or grain rust mite) belongs to the family Eriophyidae.

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Acid rain

Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).

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Acts of Union 1707

The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland.

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Agricultural education

Agricultural Education is the teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land management.

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Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875

The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 92) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Benjamin Disraeli's Conservative government.

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Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1883

The Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 61) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by William Ewart Gladstone's Liberal government.

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Agricultural lime

Agricultural lime, also called aglime, agricultural limestone, garden lime or liming, is a soil additive made from pulverized limestone or chalk.

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Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995

The Agricultural Holdings Act 1995 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which applies to England and Wales.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Agriculture Act 1947

The Agriculture Act 1947 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom passed by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

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Agriculture in Scotland

Agriculture in Scotland includes all land use for arable, horticultural, pastoral or hunting activity in Scotland, or around its coasts.

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Agriculture in Wales

Agriculture in Wales has in the past been a major part of the economy of Wales, a largely rural country that forms part of the United Kingdom.

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Alopecurus myosuroides

Alopecurus myosuroides is an annual grass, found on cultivated and waste land.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Anaerobic digestion

Anaerobic digestion is a collection of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen.

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Angus cattle

The Aberdeen Angus, sometimes simply Angus, is a Scottish breed of small beef cattle.

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Animal Welfare Act 2006

The Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c 45) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Anthemis

Anthemis is a genus of aromatic flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum, and like that genus, known by the common name chamomile; some species are also called dog-fennel or mayweed.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Avena fatua

Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus.

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Avena sterilis

Avena sterilis (animated oat, sterile oat, wild oat, wild red oat, winter wild oat; syn. Avena ludoviciana Durieu; Avena sterilis ssp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne in Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the U.S.) is a species of grass weed, and its seeds are edible.

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Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae, which also includes the otters, polecats, weasels, and wolverines.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Beef Shorthorn

The Beef Shorthorn breed of cattle was developed from the Shorthorn breed in England and Scotland around 1820.

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Beekeeping in the United Kingdom

In the winter of 2008, about 20% of the UK's bees died.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Biofuel

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Black bean aphid

The black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) is a small black insect in the Aphis genus, with a broad, soft body, a member of the order Hemiptera.

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Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

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Bluetongue disease

Bluetongue disease is a non-contagious, insect-borne, viral disease of ruminants, mainly sheep and less frequently cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries, and antelope.

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Bovine leukemia virus

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a retrovirus which causes enzootic bovine leukosis in cattle.

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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British Landrace pig

The British Landrace is a British domestic breed of pig and one of the most popular in the United Kingdom.

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British Saddleback

The British Saddleback is a modern British breed of domestic pig.

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Bromus sterilis

Bromus sterilis is an annual or biennial species of bromegrass known as barren brome, poverty brome, and sterile brome.

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Brucellosis

Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonosis caused by ingestion of unpasteurized milk or undercooked meat from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Cerastium fontanum

Cerastium fontanum, also called mouse-ear chickweed, common mouse-ear, or starweed, is a species of mat-forming perennial or, rarely, annual plant.

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Chaetocnema concinna

Chaetocnema concinna, known generally as brassy flea beetle, is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.

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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, (18 April 167421 June 1738) was an English Whig statesman.

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Chenopodium album

Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium.

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Cirsium

Cirsium is a genus of perennial and biennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae, one of several genera known commonly as thistles.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Colony collapse disorder

Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen, plenty of food and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees.

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Combine harvester

The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops.

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Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union.

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Common ostrich

The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either of two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.

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Common wood pigeon

The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) is a large species in the dove and pigeon family.

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Copper sulfate

Copper sulfate may refer to.

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Copper(I) chloride

Copper(I) chloride, commonly called cuprous chloride, is the lower chloride of copper, with the formula CuCl.

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain ("corn") enforced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1846.

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Countryside Stewardship Scheme

The Countryside Stewardship Scheme was originally an agri-environment scheme run by the United Kingdom Government set up in 1991.

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Crop rotation

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons.

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Cumberland pig

The Cumberland was a breed of domestic pig that originated in the North of England; it was used to produce local delicacies like the Cumberland sausage and Cumberland ham.

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Cydia nigricana

Cydia nigricana, the pea moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae.

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Dairy cattle

Dairy cattle (also called dairy cows) are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made.

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Dairy Shorthorn

The Dairy Shorthorn is a British breed of dairy cattle.

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Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976

The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 (22 July) is a law of the United Kingdom that was originally enacted to deal with the increasing fashion in the late 1960s and early 1970s of people keeping interesting pets which were often from the more dangerous species, as well as hybrids between wild and domestic species, such as wolfdogs and Bengal cats.

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David King (chemist)

Sir David Anthony King, FRS HonFREng (born 12 August 1939) is an Emeritus Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a senior scientific adviser to UBS.

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Delia antiqua

Delia antiqua, commonly known as the onion fly, is a cosmopolitan pest of crops.

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Delia platura

Delia platura, the seedcorn maggot or the bean seed fly, is a fly species in the family Anthomyiidae.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Deroceras reticulatum

Deroceras reticulatum, common names the "grey field slug" and "grey garden slug", is a species of small air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae.

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Dinitro-ortho-cresol

Dinitro-ortho-cresol (DNOC) is an organic compound with the structural formula CH3C6H2(NO2)2OH.

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Directive (European Union)

A directive is a legal act of the European Union which requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result.

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Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport

The Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport, officially 2003/30/EC and popularly better known as the biofuels directive is a European Union directive for promoting the use of biofuels for EU transport.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Ditylenchus dipsaci

Ditylenchus dipsaci is a plant pathogenic nematode that primarily infects onion and garlic.

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Duck

Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.

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Earthworm

An earthworm is a tube-shaped, segmented worm found in the phylum Annelida.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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Elymus repens

Elymus repens, commonly known as couch grass, is a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia, the Arctic biome, and northwest Africa.

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Energy security

Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English land law

English land law is the law of real property in England and Wales.

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Environment Agency

The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1995 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England (and until 2013 also Wales).

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European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states.

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European rabbit

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to southwestern Europe (including Spain, Portugal and Western France) and to northwest Africa (including Morocco and Algeria).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fallopia japonica

Fallopia japonica, synonyms Reynoutria japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum, commonly known as Asian knotweed or Japanese knotweed, is a large, herbaceous perennial plant of the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Fallow deer

The fallow deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.

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Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly is a magazine aimed at the British farming industry.

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Feed-in tariff

A feed-in tariff (FIT, FiT, standard offer contract, Couture, T., Cory, K., Kreycik, C., Williams, E., (2010). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy advanced renewable tariff, or renewable energy payments) is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies.

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Feudalism in England

Feudalism as practiced in the Kingdom of England was a state of human society which was formally structured and stratified on the basis of land tenure and the varieties thereof.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

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Food Standards Agency

The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease (Aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids.

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Forestry in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom,The United Kingdom (sometimes abbreviated to UK) is a political unit (specifically a country), the British Isles is a geographical unit (the archipelago lying off the northwest coast of Europe), and Great Britain is the name of the largest of those islands.

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Free-range eggs

Free-range eggs are eggs produced from birds that may be permitted outdoors.

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Galeopsis

Galeopsis, commonly called hemp-nettle or hempnettle, is a genus of annual herbaceous plants native to Europe and Asia.

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Galium aparine

Galium aparine, ('aparine' from Greek 'apairo' - “lay hold of” or “seize”) with many common names including cleavers, clivers, "bort", bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, stickybud, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, and grip grass, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.

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Game (hunting)

Game or quarry is any animal hunted for sport or for food.

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Genetically modified food

Genetically modified foods or GM foods, also known as genetically engineered foods, bioengineered foods, genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering.

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Geranium molle

Geranium molle, the Dove's-foot Crane's-bill or Dovesfoot Geranium, is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Geraniaceae family.

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Glebionis segetum

Glebionis segetum (syn. Chrysanthemum segetum) is a species of the genus Glebionis, probably native only to the eastern Mediterranean region but now naturalized in western and northern Europe as well as China and parts of North America.

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Globodera pallida

Globodera pallida is a species of nematode in the family Heteroderidae.

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Globodera rostochiensis

Globodera rostochiensis, commonly known as the golden nematode, golden eelworm or yellow potato cyst nematode, is a plant pathogenic nematode.

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Goose

Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.

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Green pound

In the United Kingdom, the green pound was the common name for an exchange rate that was used to calculate the value of financial support within the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy until 1999.

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Gross value added

In economics, gross value added (GVA) is the measure of the value of goods and services produced in an area, industry or sector of an economy.

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Harper Adams University

Harper Adams University (previously known as Harper Adams College) is a public university located close to the village of Edgmond, near Newport, in Shropshire, UK.

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Harvest

Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Hereford cattle

The Hereford (pronounced hair-uh-furd in the UK and hur-furd or hur-uh-ford in the US) is a British breed of beef cattle that originated in the county of Herefordshire, in the West Midlands of England.

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Heterodera avenae

Heterodera avenae, the cereal cyst nematode or Ustinov cyst nematode, is a plant pathogen and an obligate parasite of cereal crops including barley, oats, wheat and rye.

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Heterodera goettingiana

Heterodera goettingiana, the pea cyst nematode, is a plant pathogenic nematode affecting pea found in the United kingdom.

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Heterodera schachtii

Heterodera schachtii (Beet cyst eelworm, Sugarbeet nematode) is a plant pathogenic nematode.

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Holstein Friesian cattle

Holstein Friesians (often shortened to Holsteins in North America, while the term Friesians is often used in the UK) are a breed of dairy cattle originating from the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Friesland, and Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany and Jutland.

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Honey bee

A honey bee (or honeybee) is any member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.

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House of Plantagenet

The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Intensive animal farming

Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.

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Jethro Tull (agriculturist)

Jethro Tull (1674 – 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution.

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Juncus

Juncus is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Large White pig

The Large White is a British breed of domestic pig.

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Legume

A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).

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Lib–Lab pact

In British politics, a Lib–Lab pact is a working arrangement between the Liberal Democrats (in previous times, the Liberal Party) and the Labour Party.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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List of agriculture ministries

An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture.

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List of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom

This list of renewable resources produced and traded by the United Kingdom presents various renewable resources such as crops for food or fuel, livestock and wood with accompanying information being given on its production and trade by the United Kingdom.

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Manure

Manure is organic matter, mostly derived from animal feces except in the case of green manure, which can be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Matricaria

Matricaria is a genus of flowering plants in the Chamomile tribe within the sunflower family.

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Meligethes

Meligethes is a genus of pollen beetles in the family Nitidulidae.

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Milk quota

A milk quota (or more accurately dairy produce quota) was one of the measures used by governments in the European Union to intervene in agriculture.

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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was a United Kingdom government department created by the Board of Agriculture Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c.30) and at that time called the Board of Agriculture, and then from 1903 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and from 1919 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

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Miscanthus

Miscanthus, silvergrass, is a genus of African, Eurasian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family.

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Mite

Mites are small arthropods belonging to the class Arachnida and the subclass Acari (also known as Acarina).

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Mycobacterium bovis

Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is a slow-growing (16- to 20-hour generation time) aerobic bacterium and the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle (known as bovine TB).

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Myzus persicae

Myzus persicae, known as the green peach aphid or the peach-potato aphid, is a small green aphid.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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National Farmers' Union of England and Wales

The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is a member organisation/industry association for farmers in England and Wales.

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National parks of England and Wales

The national parks of England and Wales are areas of relatively undeveloped and scenic landscape that are designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act (2016).

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New Labour

New Labour refers to a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the late-1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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Newcastle disease

Newcastle disease is a contagious viral bird disease affecting many domestic and wild avian species; it is transmissible to humans.

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Nitrate vulnerable zone

A nitrate vulnerable zone is a conservation designation of the Environment Agency for areas of land that drain into nitrate polluted waters, or waters which could become polluted by nitrates.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nitrogen fixation

Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH3) or other molecules available to living organisms.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Open-field system

The open-field system was the prevalent agricultural system in much of Europe during the Middle Ages and lasted into the 20th century in parts of western Europe, Russia, Iran and Turkey.

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Organic farming

Organic farming is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices.

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Oscinella frit

Oscinella frit is a European species of fly and member of the family Chloropidae.

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Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, (POST) is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology.

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Peasant

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or farmer, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees or services to a landlord.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of mountains and hills in England separating North West England from Yorkshire and North East England.

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Persicaria maculosa

Persicaria maculosa (syn. Polygonum persicaria) is an annual plant in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae.

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PH

In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.

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Phosphate

A phosphate is chemical derivative of phosphoric acid.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Phyllotreta

Phyllotreta is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Polygonum aviculare

Polygonum aviculare or common knotgrass is a plant related to buckwheat and dock.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–35 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Potash

Potash is some of various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element with symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Pseudorabies

Aujeszky's disease, usually called pseudorabies in the United States, is a viral disease in swine that has been endemic in most parts of the world.

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Psylliodes chrysocephala

Psylliodes chrysocephala or Psylliodes chrysocephalus, commonly known as the cabbage-stem flea beetle, is a species of leaf beetle situated in the subfamily Galerucinae and the tribe Alticini (flea beetles).

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Pteridium aquilinum

Pteridium aquilinum (bracken, brake or common bracken), also known as eagle fern, and Eastern brakenfern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).

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Rabies

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and other mammals.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Ranunculus

Ranunculus is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.

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Rapeseed

Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape, oilseed rape, (and, in the case of one particular group of cultivars, canola), is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed.

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Red deer

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.

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Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) in the United Kingdom is a requirement on transport fuel suppliers to ensure that 5 percent of all road vehicle fuel is supplied from sustainable renewable sources by 2010.

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Rhopalosiphum padi

The Bird cherry-oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi) is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera.

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Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England.

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Romney sheep

The Romney, formerly called the Romney Marsh sheep but generally referred to by the local farmers as the Kent, is a breed of sheep originating in England.

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Royal Agricultural University

The Royal Agricultural University or RAU (previously known as the Royal Agricultural College or RAC) is a university located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK.

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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales and in Scotland.

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Rumex

The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Salmonella

Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scots law

Scots law is the legal system of Scotland.

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Scottish Agricultural College

The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) was a higher education and research institution specialising in agriculture.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Scrapie

Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats.

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Set-aside

Set-aside was a scheme introduced by the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1988 (Regulation (EEC) 1272/88), to (i) help reduce the large and costly surpluses produced in Europe under the guaranteed price system of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); and (ii) to deliver some environmental benefits following considerable damage to agricultural ecosystems and wildlife as a result of the intensification of agriculture.

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Sheep farming in Wales

Sheep farming is important to the economy of Wales.

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Sinapis arvensis

Sinapis arvensis, the charlock mustard, field mustard, wild mustard or charlock, is an annual or winter annual plant of the genus Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae.

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Sitobion avenae

The English Grain Aphid (Sitobion avenae) is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera.

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Sitona

Sitona is a large genus of weevils in the family Curculionidae native to the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions.

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Sitona lineatus

Sitona lineatus, commonly known as the pea leaf weevil is a species of weevil with a Paleartic distribution.

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Small White pig

The Small White or Small Yorkshire was a breed of domestic pig originating in the United Kingdom and which was common during the nineteenth century.

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Smallholding

A smallholding is a small farm.

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Snowdonia

Snowdonia (Eryri) is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area.

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Sodium chlorate

Sodium chlorate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula NaClO3.

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Soil Association

The Soil Association is a charity based in the United Kingdom.

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South West England

South West England is one of nine official regions of England.

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Spergula arvensis

Spergula arvensis, the corn spurry, is a species of plant in the genus Spergula.

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Stellaria media

Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (alternative spelling sulphuric acid) is a mineral acid with molecular formula H2SO4.

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Supreme Head of the Church of England

The Supreme Head of the Church of England was a title created in 1531 for King Henry VIII of England, who was responsible for the foundation of the English Protestant church that broke away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry in 1533 over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

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Swine vesicular disease

Swine vesicular disease (SVD) is an acute, contagious viral disease of swine caused by the swine vesicular disease virus, an enterovirus.

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Syria

Syria (سوريا), officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic (الجمهورية العربية السورية), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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Tenant farmer

A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord.

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Tenant-right

Tenant-right is a term in the common law system expressing the right to compensation which a tenant has, either by custom or by law, against his landlord for improvements at the termination of his tenancy.

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Thames Valley

The Thames Valley is an informally-defined sub-region of South East England, centred on the River Thames west of London, with Oxford as a major centre.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Downs (ship anchorage)

The Downs are a roadstead (area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel off the east Kent coast, between the North and the South Foreland in southern England.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Threshing

Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the husks and straw to which it is attached.

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Treaty of Union

The Treaty of Union is the name usually now given to the agreement which led to the creation of the new state of Great Britain, stating that England (which already included Wales) and Scotland were to be "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain",: Both Acts of Union and the Treaty state in Article I: That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon 1 May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN.

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Turkey (bird)

The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native to the Americas.

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Turnip

The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urine

Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many animals.

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Value added

In business, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the unit profit.

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Varroa destructor

Varroa destructor (Varroa mite) is an external parasitic mite that attacks the honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera.

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Veronica persica

Veronica persica (common names: birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell) (سیزاب ایرانی) is a flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals.

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Victory garden

Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.

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Villein

A villein, otherwise known as cottar, torpare, crofter, is a serf tied to the land in the feudal system.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Warble fly

Warble fly is a name given to the genus Hypoderma, large flies which are parasitic on cattle and deer.

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Welsh pig

The Welsh is a breed of domestic pig native to Wales.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.

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Women's Land Army

The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars so women could work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Writtle University College

Writtle University College (near Chelmsford, Essex) is one of the largest land-based university colleges in the UK; it is also one of the oldest.

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1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak

The 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom.

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2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism.

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2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak

A contained four-site outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom was found by regular livestock testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), namely in August 2007 three times, and once the following month, all in the west of Surrey, England.

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References

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