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• 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 Select Tags... SaveCancel 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]

• A cloud over our communities?

  Author Name: Will Dawson Imagine you are a community energy entrepreneur in the UK. How will you be feeling after the government’s action to tackle the “solar farm threat”? Read More... Posted Mar 04 2011, 09:44 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, carbon, community [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]

• Are you a savvy rural entrepreneur?

  Author Name: Matt Redman UK Farmers – straw hat, grass chewing folk who throw a few seeds about, keep a few animals and ride about on a tractor slowing car drivers down? Or highly skilled business men and women who look upon any new technological... Posted Feb 24 2011, 01:44 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, technology, future skills, farming's image, entrepreneurship, PR [Edit Tags]

• Changes fit for AD success

  Author Name: Mark Newton Read More... Posted Feb 16 2011, 09:05 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, solar pv [Edit Tags]

• ADAS say solar energy parks are a ‘win, win’ for farmers

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt The environmental consultancy ADAS has teamed up with international solar photovoltaic (PV) experts Enfinity to begin installing what will be the UK’s biggest solar energy parks. These installations will provide a real... Posted Dec 20 2010, 01:32 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [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]

• Why plant trees when it means you lose subsidy?

  Author Name: Ruth Simpson This time last winter I was madly throwing saplings into holes when the first blizzard, of what was to be a very tough and cold winter, struck. We had just started the process of planting 3500 saplings on our dairy farm in North... Posted Nov 22 2010, 07:08 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Wind, Solar, Livestock, Dairy, woodland, peak oil, heat exchanger, permaculture [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge

  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 investment in research, counter-productive biofuel plans, the credibility... Posted Nov 12 2010, 12:00 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge #11

  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 investment in research, counter-productive biofuel plans, the credibility... Posted Nov 12 2010, 12:00 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, biofuels, sustainable livestock, GHG emissions [Edit Tags]

• My “Big Society” Solar PV system

  Author Name: Ivan Moss Struggling to raise the funds to join in the latest craze in farming – sticking solar panels up on your roof, barn or even in your fields? Well join the club! Even with the Feed-in Tariffs (FITs), Solar PV is still a pretty... Posted Nov 10 2010, 03:59 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, FiTs, solar pv, big society [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]

• Climate news and knowledge #9

  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 environmental costs of livestock farming, impacts of climate change... Posted Oct 15 2010, 05:48 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, nitrogen, beef, small farms, water footprint [Edit Tags]

• Vote for Farming Futures!

  Author Name: Kate o'Hagan Farming Futures has been shortlisted for the Good Web Guide 's 'Website of the Year Award'! The Good Web Guide received 1809 entries and we were one of the chosen few selected by the judges on Thursday to... Posted Oct 12 2010, 11:20 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, award, website [Edit Tags]

• Gatecrash the energy party with us

  Author Name: Hugh Knowles Assembly line production revolutionisedAmerican society. By inventing a highly efficient system for putting automobiles together, Henry T Ford invented the Model T Ford in 1908. And with it, he made Americans car owners and profoundly... Posted Oct 06 2010, 07:48 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy [Edit Tags]

• Solar parks - some pointers before you get started

  Author Name: Sonya Bedford In the past few months I’ve been inundated with requests to help with heads of terms with developers looking to create a “solar park” on land, particularly in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Below are a few pointers... Posted Oct 05 2010, 11:17 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, solar pv, developers, solar park [Edit Tags]