methane

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.

Written by Louise Hickey from Agriland The government of Canada has announced a methane reduction incentive published by Environment and Climate Change Canada. The initiative was introduced following the backdrop of the food and agriculture day at COP28, and comes under Canada’s Greenhouse...

Governance at Red Tractor seems to be all over the place according to these reports. We've thought RT was out of control. Looks like it is? Question is, is a governance review going to be good enough? Does RT need scrapping? It doesn't seem to be working very well for farmers...

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

Can someone explain to me who/what/where is big wool? 🤔 It seems his argument is to put 'big' in front of things he does not like to make it look bad! 😄

Welcome to Ruminant Health & Welfare 2023 will go down as the year of collaboration with the launch of the RH&W Dairy Welfare and RH&W Sheep welfare strategies in June and November respectively, both with a 5-year vision to show progress in animal welfare, and both with nearly 100 supporting...

Europe along with nearly most exporting importing countries in the world, heads of state are fast to point out the so called climate catastrophe headed our way...yawn. Ive long said that i have not seen a positive policy for the climate, ive seen plenty of retarded policy and duplicity. People...

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed Not a fan of the guardian but it just happened to be them to highlight this. 2 oil fields in Turkmenistan leak more co2 equivalents in a year than the UK’s total emissions!! Of course...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Jens Engelken is an agricultural engineer by training and now runs the family home with his wife Stephanie and their three children, at Haren-Wesuwe in north-west Germany, close to the Dutch border. It is no ordinary farm though, for the couple have...

What do you think of Bunny Guiness and her campaign to stop the ban on the use of peat ? She says why should the horticultural industry be disadvantaged when they only have a small part in the problem, farmers and Agricultural practices are more to blame than them ???? Passing the buck ? @Clive...

Direct Driller's first tech edition has gone live on the website or you can download a copy of the PDF to read when convenient. A digital only, 100% tech focused issue (with an appropriate title) looking at how regenerative agriculture has change because of technology and how is might change...

Written by Aisling O'Brien from Agriland Almost 200 nations have agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems” at the 28th United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28). In the early hours of this morning (Wednesday, December 13), a draft deal which...

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...

A potential anaerobic digester just up the road from me had its Planning Committee meeting yesterday. They had already approached me to grow crops for them & take digestate back. I would prefer a break crop if possible. The farm has a significant blackgrass burden. Mostly brashy soils prone to...

Details are rapidly emerging which show the NFU backed greening module aims to fulfill supermarket environmental commitments by robbing farmers of their livelihoods The NFU is backing a 20% reduction of red meat, and a cut in British food production of 50% The NFU are in the supermarkets...

Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland There are people of a certain generation who cannot see a blue and black tractor without immediately thinking it a Ford, which must frustrate New Holland, as Ford have not made a tractor for well over a quarter of century now. The well-known livery...

Written by Francess McDonnell from Agriland Significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be achieved through improvement of management practices in dairy farming, a new report has highlighted today (Friday, December 8). These can include elective breeding, rumen manipulation...

Mind blowing the attitude of COP, but like Greta they will stop at nothing with propaganda. And as usual farm representative bodies lay idle. https://www.youtube.com/live/2x4y_d5vsps?si=BhN4cK5lXd4_3Hft Ant...

Know this is probably pie in the sky but does UK Ag need a rebrand? Approx 104,000 farmers in the UK, Each one chips in £100 or £200 so a fund of up to £20million. (Would that buy much though?) Attempt to change the narrative around UK Ag -The importance of good food produced in the UK to...