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• Oxfordshire farmers get together on climate

  Author Name: Alan Spedding Farmers are notoriously busy and time constrained. From feeding the world, GM crops and new technology, to better communications and different scales of production – there is plenty to think about. And for an eclectic... Posted Dec 01 2010, 04:27 PM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil [Edit Tags]

• Sustainable livestock: the benefits of big

  Author Name: Dr Duncan Pullar Let’s be clear – big livestock units are not bound to be bad. It depends, as with small units, how well designed they are and how well run they are. The vast majority of the UK public enjoys eating livestock products... Posted Oct 22 2010, 05:35 PM by Blog posts Filed under: food security, Livestock, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, carbon, resources [Edit Tags]

• The Committee on Climate Change go anaerobic...

  Author Name: Kavita Srinivasan Along with others from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), I recently visited Crouchlands Farm, a 750 cattle dairy business in West Sussex. It’s home to Gwyn Jones, the NFU’s Vice President. Read More... Posted Sep 29 2010, 05:04 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, carbon, nutrient, resources [Edit Tags]

• Mixed farming or factory farming?

  Author Name: Jules Hayward Efficient farming or factory farming? In the last 12 months, several proposals to create ‘super dairies’ or ‘super piggeries’ have hit the headlines. It’s creating a stir in both the farming community... Posted Sep 27 2010, 12:22 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, sheep, footprinting, carbon, resources, methane [Edit Tags]

• The future of farming is in precision

  Author Name: Edd Banks New technology has, throughout history, brought significant changes to the way we farm and RTK GPS is no exception. Read More... Posted Sep 09 2010, 11:22 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, footprinting, carbon, nutrient, resources, GPS, precision farming [Edit Tags]

• Greenhouse gases New Zealand style

  Author Name: Dr Duncan Pullar I am currently on a study tour in New Zealand looking at how they are dealing with the issues of greenhouse gas (GHG) production from beef and sheep systems. Read More... Posted Aug 26 2010, 11:32 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Livestock, sheep, footprinting, carbon, beef [Edit Tags]

• How can you prove your woodland project saves carbon?

  Author Name: Theresa Andrew We know that trees are a good thing. Not only can well-managed woodland help prevent flooding, support biodiversity, replace energy-intensive construction materials, and provide biomass for energy generation, but it also is... Posted Aug 19 2010, 04:16 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, water, carbon, resources, woodland, forestry [Edit Tags]

• Let them eat grass?

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis A herd of 8,000 dairy cows housed indoors all year round, fed, watered and monitored for optimal health? Is it the future of ‘low carbon’ dairy farming? Read More... Posted Jul 23 2010, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, water, carbon [Edit Tags]

• Growing up - is vertical farming the future?

  Author Name: Valcent Are high rise farms, vertical farming, and urban farming the solution to feeding our growing population? More and more architects, politicians and urban planners are latching on to the idea that something radical has to be done to... Posted Jul 21 2010, 04:36 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Horticulture, food security, footprinting, water, carbon, nutrient, resources [Edit Tags]