Contact the Agriculture & Farming Team

Use this page to find the right route for a question about content in the CAB Direct Agriculture & Farming section, shown as Agriculture in the site navigation. The section covers four areas: regenerative farming, precision agriculture, GM crops and biotechnology, and agricultural markets and subsidies. Its planned coverage includes no-till systems, cover crops, agroforestry trials and digital soil mapping; drones, irrigation and vertical farming; GM and Bt crops, glyphosate, GMO detection, Vavilov centres of origin and seed banks; and farm subsidies, commodity prices, cocoa supply chains, yield gaps, organic and conventional comparisons, and food loss and waste.

The section hub is at /agriculture/, and background on the wider project is on the About CAB Direct page. Different questions are handled by different pages, so choosing the right one from the start keeps a correction request separate from a general question about sources or authorship.

Choose the right contact route

The table matches common questions about Agriculture & Farming articles to the page that deals with them.

Corrections to a specific article

If something in a published Agriculture & Farming article looks wrong, use the corrections page. Examples of problems that can arise in this subject area include a yield or input rate given per acre where the source reports it per hectare, a subsidy payment rate taken from the wrong scheme year or country, a trial result presented as if it applied to crops, soils or climates the trial did not cover, a GM trait linked to the wrong crop, and a price quoted without the market, currency or date it refers to.

Reported issues are assessed against traceable sources, and not every report leads to a change. Where an article is corrected, the correction is dated and remains visible.

What to include in a report

• The address of the article and the heading of the section concerned.
• The exact sentence, figure or table cell you believe is wrong.
• What you think the correct information is, and why.
• A source that supports the correction, such as the original trial report, official agricultural statistics or the published text of a regulation.
• For market and subsidy figures, the country, scheme or market, year and currency the number refers to.

Editorial standards and process

Questions about how articles are prepared belong with the editorial policy. This includes questions about topic selection, preferred types of source, the treatment of contested subjects such as GM crops and glyphosate, and updates to published articles. Claims and figures in the section are checked against traceable sources, and the editorial policy sets out the rules in full.

Evidence, sources and uncertainty

Agricultural evidence varies widely in strength. A single-season plot trial, a multi-year farm-scale study, a crop model projection and a meta-analysis can point in different directions, and comparisons such as organic against conventional farming often depend on whether results are measured per hectare or per unit of output. Industry-funded studies, price forecasts and remote-sensing estimates raise questions of their own.

For questions about how this kind of evidence is weighed, see how we rate evidence. If you think a particular claim in an article goes further than its source supports, treat it as a correction and name the claim on the corrections page.

Authors and topic coverage

Author profiles are listed at /authors/. All five members of the Agriculture & Farming team hold the role of Author and joined in September 2026.

Who covers what

The list below shows the main topics each author covers. Each name links to the author's profile.

• Harriet Colbeck (BSc Agriculture, MSc Soil Science): regenerative farming, soil organic matter, cover crops, reduced tillage and nutrient management.
• Tobias Mardle (BEng Agricultural Engineering): precision agriculture, including yield mapping, soil and crop sensors, variable-rate application, drones and decision-support software.
• Callum Hebden (BSc Agricultural Economics, MSc Food Policy): agricultural markets and prices, farm subsidies and support schemes, land use, and the regulation and farm-level economics of GM and gene-edited crops.
• Anjali Dhanjal (BSc Plant Science, MSc Plant Breeding): plant breeding, the science of GM and gene-edited crops, GMO detection, crop origins and Vavilov centres, seed banks and crop diversity, and Bt crops and non-target organisms.
• Nuala Keaveney (BAgrSc, MSc Sustainable Agriculture): organic and conventional farming, irrigation methods, yield gap research, vertical farming, food loss and waste, and agroforestry trials.

General questions about an author or their articles can be sent through the main contacts page at /contacts/, and each author's profile is linked from /authors/.

Questions outside the scope of this page

Agriculture & Farming articles explain research, markets and policy in general terms. They are not written for the circumstances of a particular farm or business, and the routes on this page do not handle applications, claims or eligibility decisions under farm support schemes, or questions about whether a particular product is approved or how a regulation applies to a specific farm. Those are matters for the body that runs the scheme or regulates the product, and for qualified agronomic, financial or legal advisers.

CAB Direct and CABI databases

CABI's own history page records that CAB Direct launched in 2003 as CABI's platform for CAB Abstracts (see CABI: our history). CABI's help pages explain how to search the CABI Digital Library, in particular its main databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health (see CABI Digital Library help).

Questions about searching or accessing those databases are best answered through CABI's own help resources. The routes on this page cover articles published in the Agriculture & Farming section, and nothing here should be read as a statement that CABI writes, reviews or publishes them.

General contact and related pages

For a general enquiry about the section, or when the right route is unclear, use the main contacts page. This page does not list a separate email address, telephone number or postal address for the section, and it does not set a response time. The following pages give further context:

• Agriculture & Farming section: /agriculture/
• About CAB Direct: /about/
• Editorial policy: /editorial-policy/
• How we rate evidence: /how-we-rate-evidence/
• Corrections: /corrections/
• Authors: /authors/
• Contacts: /contacts/