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• Saving Money and Helping the Environment

  Author Name: LEAF Board Member and LEAF Marque farmer, Matthew Naylor We have found that when we make changes to help the environment on our farm, they often save us money too...writes LEAF Board Member and LEAF Marque farmer, Matthew Naylor. There were... Posted Sep 14 2011, 05:37 PM by Blog posts Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Energy Efficiency, nutrient, resources, soil, precision farming, fertiliser, Leaf [Edit Tags]

• 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 Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil [Edit Tags]

• Between and rock and a hard place: the threat of peak phosphorus

  Author Name: Dr Isobel Tomlinson There is one critical issue in securing our future food security that is missing from the global policy agenda: we are facing the end of cheap and readily-available phosphate fertilizer on which intensive agriculture is... Posted Nov 30 2010, 11:43 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, nutrient, resources, soil, phosphate, phosphorous [Edit Tags]

• Between a rock and a hard place: the threat of peak phosphorus

  Author Name: Dr Isobel Tomlinson There is one critical issue in securing our future food security that is missing from the global policy agenda: we are facing the end of cheap and readily-available phosphate fertilizer on which intensive agriculture is... Posted Nov 30 2010, 11:43 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, footprinting, nutrient, resources, soil, phosphate, phosphorous [Edit Tags]

• Biotechnology – magic bullet or smoke and mirrors?

  Author Name: Will Frazer A technology that boosts yields whilst using less energy and water, and simultaneously increases soil fertility? Sounds like a magic bullet in our climate changed world, doesn’t it? Some argue that this is what biotechnology... Posted Oct 20 2010, 09:00 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil, biotechnology [Edit Tags]

• Grass grown at a rate of seed-to-feed in seven days... why hydroponics could revolutionise farming

  Author Name: Howard Campion The first six months of this year were the driest for 80 years in the UK. There were reports of livestock being kept indoors, poor forage production, and farmers using fodder stored for winter to keep things going. Read More... Posted Oct 13 2010, 12:37 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Livestock, hydroponics, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, nutrient, resources, soil, efficiency, fodder [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]

• 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]

• Can Britain feed itself?

  Author Name: Sam Henderson During 2007 and 2008 the world experienced a global food crisis. Possibly the first genuinely global food crisis ever. There were riots in over 30 countries. The UN called emergency summits and meetings. India stopped exporting... Posted Aug 16 2010, 01:40 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Wind, Biomass, Anaerobic Digestion, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Solar, Livestock, Energy Efficiency, Micro-hydro, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, nutrient, resources [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]

• Reduce traffic and get soil in pole position.

  Author Name: Tim Chamen Over the past decade there has been a drive towards the adoption of conservation agriculture to reduce costs and increase carbon sequestration. But this is causing concern due to the potentially negative effects of increased soil... Posted Jul 16 2010, 10:57 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, nutrient, soil, nitrogen [Edit Tags]

• Free nutrient planning kit that could save you cash

  Author Name: Madeleine Lewis With input prices ever on therise and the constant pressure to produce cost effective food whilst protecting the environment, farmers are always looking for ways to save a buck. Defra’s updated Fertiliser Manual and... Posted Jun 10 2010, 04:40 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, nutrient [Edit Tags]