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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

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Sep 26 2011
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 of Excellence for UK Farming (CEUKF for short)...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Jun 15 2011
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 21st-century farmer would: she went onto Twitter...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Mar 29 2011
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 Weekly, we wanted to go one strep further with...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 23 2011
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 a hattrick next week.

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 16 2011
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 find out what else we are up to is here www.TransitionNC...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Mar 1 2011
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 change winners and losers. Campaign year?

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 25 2011
The "Cool Farm Tool"

Author Name: Mark Pettigrew Mark Pettigrew, Agricultural Development Manager, is leading PepsiCo ’s bold project to slash their carbon and water footprint by 50% in the next 5 years. In 2011, the focus is working with PepsiCo’s 350 potato growers to measure the impact of all activities involved...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 8 2011
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 yet more concern over future food prices.

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Dec 13 2010
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 different – underneath three pairs of...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Dec 3 2010

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