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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]

• How to build soil fertility for future generations

  Author Name: Patrick Holden Patrick Holden, former Director of the Soil Association , talks us through his top tips for creating sustainable soils. Read More... Posted Feb 04 2011, 09:31 AM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, soil [Edit Tags]

• Prof Tim Lang on why we should see food security as sustainability

  Author Name: Will Frazer The only way to achieve food security is to have a sustainable food system. That’s the message from Professor Tim Lang of City University’s Centre for Food Policy, who we met at the Inside Government Food Security... Posted Jan 20 2011, 03:09 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, food security, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, water, carbon, resources, soil [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 microscopic majority – we ignore them at our peril!

  Author Name: Dr Christopher van der Gast Producing sufficient crops while ensuring our farming practices are sustainable is the big challenge for agriculture. But as well as studying and improving crop plants we also have to understand the microbial diversity... Posted Sep 17 2010, 03:42 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, food security, carbon, resources, soil, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• The Secret Ecosystem

  Author Name: Kate O'Hagan It’s often said that we know less about the depths of our oceans than the surface of the Moon. In agriculture there’s a pretty important resource that is probably even more unknown. Read More... Posted Sep 14 2010, 06:18 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Horticulture, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Pigs, Dairy, soil, biodiversity [Edit Tags]

• A new kind of sewage plant

  Author Name: Claire Wyatt What if you could get paid to take the **** out of your local water company? Now, I’m not talking about venting any frustrations about hosepipe bans here, but about making money from sewage. That’s exactly what farmer... Posted Aug 11 2010, 03:17 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Biomass, carbon, soil, coppice willow, genetics, nitrous oxide [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]

• Less fuel and more cash - DIY for cereal growers

  Author Name: Michael Donovan Improving the efficiency of field cultivations doesn’t have to be about big investment - as you will well know there are often simple solutions sitting right under your nose. A simple leveling board on your ‘combination... Posted Jul 08 2010, 12:41 PM by Blog posts Filed under: Crops, Energy Efficiency, soil, fuel, innovation [Edit Tags]