carbon sequestration

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Andrew Muir is Northern Ireland’s new farm minister, appointed with the task of heading up the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). The Alliance Party representative hails from Bangor in north Co. Down, and has a...

This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.

Restoring the River Axe: a Landscape Recovery spotlight Written by Alasdair Moffett All photos credit: Randall Photos Flowing through Dorset, Somerset and Devon, the 35 kilometre-long River Axe is an ecologically diverse river. Its name derives from the Celtic, meaning ‘abounding in fish’...

Posted elsewhere but might as well post it here too. FT today. Bit of a read, but just shows how utterly fekked up all of this is. One bit stands out: Smith, the University of Aberdeen professor, says carbon sequestration can buy food suppliers “time to decarbonise the rest of their supply...

How very generous …….. How VERY condescending ! The open market can decide the value and we can decide if we want to sell at that price “supermarket god complex reaches new levels” should have been your headline @Abi Kay

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The public is being asked to contribute views through a survey on a nature enhancement project across half of the Pentland Hills Regional Park. ‘Project L-AND’ is a partnership between nature recovery consultants Ecosulis and the Pentland Land...

So i wonder what announcements / new standards we might get re SFI today ? any guesses ?

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RedTractorStakeholder/ I have just had this bought to my attention. Red tractor survey to ‘inform’ the reviewers. first I have heard of it, nothing in the latest member matters, on any email or on social media. feels like they are trying to keep it quiet as usual.

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1566/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1566/pub/1566/page/61/article/NaN Hope this link works, at last …. Rewilding is NOT the answe

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A number of research scientists believe that the potential of our soils to sequester carbon has been seriously overestimated. Some recent studies, estimating the potential of farmland to store more carbon through innovative soil management, are...

Well isn’t it? If you can grow 4t per acre of wheat then isn’t the carbon footprint per ton less by virtue of the fact you’ve spread the fixed part of the carbon cost in growing the crop over more tons. This fact begs the question of what to do with marginal land. It would suggest it should be...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/livestock-farming-soy-soyboy My word George you seem quite happy to call me names, though I am indigenous and I keep cattle. The piece is meant to make us bite and lower us to the same standards, so please when commenting rise above it, just...

Ok hear me out here and please tell me I am wrong if I am but I have been thinking about all these environmental conditions being put on us by supermarkets and general public and governmental bodies. Why is this not being seen as an Agricultural asset and being sold ( just hold off with the...

Well done to @AHDB for engaging with us all on here. They have answered some fairly tough and agressive questions on why we should pay levies and the need for an increase in the levies. They have certainly gone up in my opinion, as I was beginning to think we would be no worse off if we lost...

According to Farmers weekly Red Tractor are trying to bring in the Greener Farm Commitment (GFC) to help supermarkets meet commitment they have signed up to under the “WWF Basket” https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/shocking-cost-of-red-tractors-green-module-revealed But how many of us know what...

Well isn’t it?

An open question. Normally, when selling farmers receive the agricultural value of the land plus enough to entice them to part with it. But in today's world where achieve Net Zero is the priority, and where there is less available farmland, what is the cost of land in this world? For example...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland AgriSearch chairman, Prof. Gerry Boyle, has called for the societal impact of the many changes taking place within agriculture to be fully researched. Speaking at a recent AgriSearch workshop, held to help identify future research priorities for...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine How to embrace the many disruptions farms may face was the theme of a recent conference delivered by the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM). The outcome was, that adoption of appropriate technologies in tandem with the rediscovery of...