Farming Futures Blog

January 2011 - Posts

• Climate news and knowledge #15

  Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of the many challenges of the future, punchy weather and soaring fuel... Posted Jan 28 2011, 03:11 PM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, fuel, future, biofuel, governance, extreme weather [Edit Tags]

• Let’s shout about our environment and make people accountable for it!

  Author Name: Paul C Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Read More... Posted Jan 26 2011, 11:12 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, resources, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• A few words on a big issue

  Author Name: Will Frazer Our food system needs a revolution. That’s the message from the ‘ Global Food and Farming Futures Report ’ released today by the Government’s Foresight Institute. The report is a bible of facts and information... Posted Jan 24 2011, 06:35 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, climate change, food system, change [Edit Tags]

• Who are the dynamos and who are the dinosaurs?

  Author Name: Patrick Barker Attending the Oxford Farming Conference for the first time it was my intention to absorb every bit of information thrown at me but it was the very first person that I met who gave the most pertinent piece of advice, “Establish... Posted Jan 21 2011, 09:32 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• Prof Tim Lang on why we should see food security as sustainability

  Author Name: Will Frazer The only way to achieve food security is to have a sustainable food system. That’s the message from Professor Tim Lang of City University’s Centre for Food Policy, who we met at the Inside Government Food Security... Posted Jan 20 2011, 03:09 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, soil [Edit Tags]

• Why are 75% of beef and sheep producers missing out on improved returns?

  Author Name: Dr Liz Genever Good nutrient management and soil analysis can save time, money, and improve your returns, so why are only a quarter of soil samples at target index? At EBLEX we discovered this statistic as part of the PAAG study. Overall... Posted Jan 17 2011, 05:14 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, resources, grassland [Edit Tags]

• Why are 75% of beef & sheep producers missing out on better returns?

  Author Name: Dr Liz Genever Good nutrient management and soil analysis can save time, money, and improve your returns, so why are only a quarter of soil samples at target index? At EBLEX we discovered this statistic as part of the PAAG study. Overall... Posted Jan 17 2011, 05:14 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, resources, grassland [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #14

  Author Name: Will Frazer Climate News and Knowledge is our fortnightly round up of some of the main stories covering climate change and sustainable farming. This time there is talk of super dairies, sustainable woodland, investment in agriculture and... Posted Jan 14 2011, 09:23 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, biodiversity, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• 2011 - a new dawn for agriculture?

  Author Name: Richard Scott Looking at the newspapers, optimism seems to be in short supply at the start of 2011. But amid all the doom and gloom I’m positive for the long-term future of agriculture after some difficult times. Read More... Posted Jan 13 2011, 09:46 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, resources [Edit Tags]

• The challenge facing the next generation

  Author Name: Angharad Evans The issues of food, farming and Read More... Posted Jan 11 2011, 02:50 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• The threat that dare not speak its name

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt Climate change is everywhere, Peak Oil is rising on the political agenda, the fate of the economy is still uncertain, resource wars are looming and yet still very few people mention the elephant in the room that could be the... Posted Jan 07 2011, 01:18 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources, biodiversity, climate change, population [Edit Tags]

• The First UK Carbon Neutral Egg

  Author Name: David Brass Here at the Lakes Free Range Egg Company we are aiming to become the first UK carbon neutral, sustainable egg packing operation. Always trying to be at the forefront of innovation, we are installing modern technologies and equipment... Posted Jan 06 2011, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, carbon neutral, eggs [Edit Tags]

• An energy crop that cleans toxic soil?

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Read More... Posted Jan 04 2011, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, food security, carbon, resources, bioenergy [Edit Tags]