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Diego Fernández World
Thirty countries deposit crop seeds at a mountain seed archive in a single week
Why it matters: 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.
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Lucas Moreau Business
Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer
Why it matters: Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field.
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Isabel Duarte 10 photos Business
Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides
Why it matters: From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations.
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Grace Mwangi 11 photos Business
Harvest time in the vineyards: from grapes to landscapes
Why it matters: Frames showing the season's work and scenery in Europe's vineyards.
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Callum Reid 10 photos Business
Beekeeping: honey season at the hives
Why it matters: From mountain slopes to woodland edges, beekeepers' colourful hives and combs full of work.
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Samuel Adeyemi Technology
Solar panels raised above crops: first results from an Asher Valley trial
Why it matters: A 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.
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Elena Sokolova Business
Asher Valley grain growers lock in prices with millers through three-year contracts
Why it matters: A 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.
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Hannah Okoye News
Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring
Why it matters: Farmers 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.
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