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• 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 Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, sheep, footprinting, carbon, resources, methane [Edit Tags]

• Big, brave and bankable? No, thought not...

  Author Name: Andrew Rigg 18 months ago the multiple benefits of anaerobic digestion technology looked set to put fire in the belly of farmers, policy makers, businessmen, environmental charities and many others. Today, the fire is still there but it is... Posted Aug 13 2010, 01:41 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Anaerobic Digestion, Livestock, Pigs, Dairy, methane, nitrous oxide, collaboration, finance, organic fertiliser [Edit Tags]

• Climate news and knowledge#2

  Author Name: Will Frazer In the last couple of weeks there has been talk of uncertainty about investment in AD, innovative responses to the impacts of the dry spell, spiced up sheep and super cows... Read More... Posted Jul 09 2010, 03:19 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, sheep, water, renewables, methane, cows, AD [Edit Tags]