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Geostatistics and precision farming

Author Name: Caroline Channing, Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network, ed Alan Spedding A new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association by University of Reading Professor Margaret A. Oliver explains that spatial variation...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, May 3 2013
Straw – what is it good for?

Author Name: AHDB ed Alan Spedding There is a significant amount of potential profit for the grower, as well as bedding or energy potential, in the millions of tonnes of straw which is currently incorporated into the soil. Straw incorporation is seen by some as a useful means of sequestering carbon and...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Apr 29 2013
The National Centre for Precision Farming

Author Name: Harper Adams University Precision farming may be seen to be entering a new era of development in which engineering and associated technological innovation is opening up new dimensions of support and intervention, not only in the established disciplines of arable and livestock farming, but...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 8 2013
Precision Farming - how it's done

Author Name: Jake Freestone, Oxford Farming Conference Today’s precision farming offers three main benefits. First, cost saving from accurate field operations, resulting in reduced diesel, man-hours and wearing parts. Second is to the environment, eg greater accuracy lowers the risk of nitrogen...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Jan 16 2013
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
Industry Survey: Supporting Community Energy

Author Name: Jin Park, University of Sussex Researchers at the University of Sussex - Science and Technology Policty Research Unit are studying how community energy can spread and grow and are looking for groups to take part in an online survey of community energy projects. The results will be used to...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Aug 24 2011
Industry News: New strategy to save and protect England's wildlife

Author Name: Defra Defra has published a plan to create better habitats and join up the homes of some of England’s most iconic wildlife. ‘Biodiversity 2020: A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services’ aims to halt the loss of England’s habitats and species...

Posted to Farming Futures Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Aug 23 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

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