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• Bridging the communications gap – how renewable energy companies can help farmers and landowners invest in renewables

  Author Name: CleanTech PR agency 130 British farmers and landowners were surveyed by the CleanTech division of PR agency CCgroup to investigate what renewables information resonates and why. The report ‘How to talk so farmers and landowners listen’... Posted May 21 2013, 06:14 AM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• What role should farms play in powering the nation? Farmers Weekly Survey

  Author Name: Will Frazer ‘What role should farms play in powering the nation? Take our survey to be in with a chance of winning £1000 http://www.fwi.co.uk/landing-page/farmenergy/farm-power/’ Read More... Posted Apr 30 2013, 05:42 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• Survey launched to address renewable energy confusion

  Author Name: Tom Horn, CCgroup A new survey called ‘Renewable Energy: What do you need to know?’ has been launched to identify what information farmers and landowners need to help overcome the confusion surrounding investing in renewable energy... Posted Mar 19 2013, 08:59 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• Add your name to the Climate Week Declaration

  Author Name: Kevin Steele, Climate Week Over 700 organisations and people have signed the Climate Week Declaration in its first week. Please click here to add your name: http://www.climateweek.com/climate-week-declaration/?utm_source=Master+L... read... Posted Feb 27 2013, 02:25 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• Renewable energy offers financial lifeline for struggling farmers

  Author Name: NFU NFU says renewables give hard-pressed farmers a vital stream of income, with wind offering the highest rate of return Analysis from NatWest, RBS and RenewableUK shows farmers earn £12,000 - £50,000 a year from generating their... Posted Feb 26 2013, 09:46 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• AgriChatUK - "Renewable Energy" discussion 24/01/13

  Author Name: Simon Haley, Reading Agricultural Consultants via Twitter A lack of consistency from planning authorities, opposition of NIMBYs and the short-termism of reporting in the media are the major obstacles to investment in renewables. Attention... Posted Jan 30 2013, 07:58 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• Energy in agriculture - Update on composting, AD liquor and dryers

  Author Name: Bill Butterworth, Land Network International Ltd United Nations research looking at feeding the expanding global population concluded that one tonne of Nitrogen nutrient, made in a modern, relatively efficient, USA factory takes over 21,000... Posted Nov 14 2012, 08:21 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Anaerobic Digestion, Energy Efficiency [Edit Tags]

• Looking for investment? NNFCC can help

  Author Name: NNFC Having successfully placed an initial tranche of development projects ranging from waste to energy to speciality crop cultivation with interested investors we are now looking to assist other project developers in obtaining investment... Posted Sep 25 2012, 11:27 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Energy Efficiency [Edit Tags]

• Air Products to build world's largest advanced gasification energy-from-waste facility

  Author Name: NNFCC Following the Government's banding review for the Renewables Obligation, US company Air Products have announced plans to build the world's largest energy-from-waste plant on Teesside. The facility will use cutting edge AlterNRG... Posted Aug 09 2012, 08:16 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Anaerobic Digestion, Energy Efficiency [Edit Tags]

• Practical biofuel activities

  Author Name: BBSRC The activities are provided to engage young people with the science and issues surrounding bioenergy and biofuels. The topics cover a range of areas in science and technology including: Plant science, microbiology and chemistry Who... Posted Aug 06 2012, 08:48 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro [Edit Tags]

• Farming Futures– Fast Forward to the future

  Author Name: Farming Futures So, it’s happened. Farming Futures, like the iconic friendly local corner shop, is “under new management”. read more Read More... Posted Sep 26 2011, 01:38 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, farming futures, new team, CEUKF [Edit Tags]

• Pastures new - Farming Futures moves to a new home

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis Farming Futures enters a new phase this month. As you know, we were looking for a new host after our five-year Defra funding came to a close. So we're very pleased to announce that the project has a new home! The Centre... Posted Jun 15 2011, 02:57 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Charlotte's web: social media and farming

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis She grew up on a dairy farm, bought her first cow when she was seven, and her husband's a dairy nutritionist. So when Michele Payn-Knoper was stumped by her Hosltein dairy calf not weaning, she did what any self-respecting... Posted Mar 29 2011, 04:10 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, innovation, twitter, social media [Edit Tags]

• Goal! We did it - another award for team FF

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt Farming Futures has scored a hattrick and won the Climate Week award for the 'Best Campaign'. Having recently won a Global Green Award and voted the best website for climate change and agricuture information by Farmers... Posted Mar 23 2011, 11:47 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, climate change, awards [Edit Tags]

• Can we score a hattrick?

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt Farming Futures has been shortlisted for the inaugural Climate Week Awards! Having recently won a Global Green Award and voted the best website for climate change and agricuture information, we're hoping to romp home with... Posted Mar 16 2011, 05:33 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, climate change, awards [Edit Tags]

• Dairy road map heading for success

  Author Name: Karen Wonnacott Dr Karen Wonnacott spoke at the Dairy and the 21st Century Diet: Nutrition and Sustainability conference on the 27th January. We managed to catch her for a few minutes to ask how the dairy road map is progressing and what... Posted Mar 15 2011, 01:46 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Dairy, footprinting [Edit Tags]

• Dairy roadmap heading for success

  Author Name: Karen Wonnacott Dr Karen Wonnacott spoke at the Dairy and the 21st Century Diet: Nutrition and Sustainability conference on the 27th January. We managed to catch her for a few minutes to ask how the dairy road map is progressing and what... Posted Mar 15 2011, 01:46 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Dairy, footprinting [Edit Tags]

• Barriers to low carbon farming - your thoughts wanted

  Author Name: Paul Sousek Here at Cottage Farm we have demonstrated that it is perfectly possible to farm sustainably and in a resilient manner, that is organically, without using fossil fuels but still utilising machinery and energy. The best place to... Posted Mar 01 2011, 06:20 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #17

  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 power of the people, the fallout from the FIT review and climate... Posted Feb 25 2011, 05:32 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, social media, campaigns [Edit Tags]

• The "Cool Farm Tool"

  Author Name: Mark Pettigrew Mark Pettigrew, Agricultural Development Manager, is leading PepsiCo ’s bold project to slash their carbon and water footprint by 50% in the next 5 years. In 2011, the focus is working with PepsiCo’s 350 potato... Posted Feb 08 2011, 10:23 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Potatoes, Solar, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, carbon footprint, water footprint, potato [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]

• Climate news and knowledge #13

  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 Dec 13 2010, 01:51 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Farming Futures gets the gong!

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis Trudging through the snow yesterday in our wellies was just like any other day for the Farming Futures team. We’ve held many a workshop in the snow, freezing cold, gusting winds or driving rain. But yesterday was a little... Posted Dec 03 2010, 01:10 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, winners! [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #12

  Author Name: William 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 investment in research, counter-productive biofuel plans, the credibility... Posted Nov 26 2010, 01:20 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, woodlands [Edit Tags]

• Shortlisted for a global Green Award...!

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan To start November with a bit of a bang, the Farming Futures team are very excited to announce that we have been nominated for another award – the project has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Green Public Sector... Posted Nov 04 2010, 10:11 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, green, communications [Edit Tags]