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• Soil and Water, Our Greatest Team?

  What can I say, one of the most riveting conferences I have been to in a very long time, well done to the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) for putting it all together. Prof Tim Benton kicked off the Conference with a sobering overview of our... Posted Nov 20 2012, 11:21 AM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Water, Soil, Organic Matter, RASE, Cover Crops, Controlled Traffic Farming [Edit Tags]

• LEAF Water Management Training

  Today we had a really interesting meeting with a select group of people for a follow up meeting on the LEAF Water Management tool. From January 1st this year we have had about 55% of our annual rainfall on the farm and it is still very dry so the water... Posted Nov 28 2011, 11:25 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: LEAF, Water, biobed, Jim Paice MP, water protection [Edit Tags]

• Keeping H2O Low with LEAF

  Last thursday I had a brilliant day with other members of the Carling Wester Growers Group at a special training day organised by LEAF The training day was to bring to our attention the impact of water on our farms and how much we rely on this precious... Posted Jun 27 2011, 02:34 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: LEAF, Ag, Agriculture, Water, Molston Coors Growing Group [Edit Tags]