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WIYLS goes inside Duchy College’s £3.6m dairy unit >More in © Ruth Wills Improved cow comfort and a better feeding regime have boosted milk yields by 2 litres a cow a day at Duchy College, Cornwall. The “Future Farm” research facility, which houses the farm’s herd of 225 Holstein cows, was finished last autumn and cost £3.6m. The building contains a 20/40 Boumatic swing-over parlour, cubicles and feed kitchen under one roof. It allows the cattle to be managed as three mini herds to facilitate research into the effect of diff...

Lavender under lights Farmers could be growing more high value crops for pharmaceuticals in the UK if promising research into treating an aggressive form of lymphoma proves successful. The project, which is based at the University of Plymouth’s £17m Derriford Research Facility, has discovered that specific essential oils inhibit cancer cell growth in Mantle Cell lymphoma – a so far untreatable form of this aggressive disease. “Mantle Cell lymphoma has a survival rate of just three to five years,” explains project leader Dr Lynn McCallum, associate professor of haematology at Pl...