soil carbon

  1. CPM RSS

    Project to unveil the TRUTH about soils

    Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Cutting-edge UK agri-tech tools are coming together with research and development expertise to help farmers discover more about the role roots play in maintaining healthy soils. Soil degradation currently costs England and Wales £1.2Bn every year, but...
  2. S

    Hedge rules now law

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hedgerow-regulations-to-be-brought-into-law-to-protect-wildlife Cross compliance ended 31st December. Good job it's been a wet winter. 🤬 So it appears we lose income on let's say half a metre (bit more probably) on the perimeter of every field to stay legal...
  3. The Guardian RSS

    Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law and the soil carbon revolution

    Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law and the soil carbon revolution Written by Aston Brown from the Guardian Wilmot Cattle Co in northern New South Wales is pioneering soil carbon sequestration, but scientists say it’s not a long-term solution Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the...
  4. onthehoof

    Carbon sequestration - trees and grass

    Was looking for reliable answers to how much carbon pasture sequesters vs trees as seems to be an awful lot of misinformation out there. No idea if this is accurate but thought it interesting, one could conclude that planting up 10% plus of Welsh livestock farms with trees provides no meaningful...
  5. Bigsingle

    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

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

    FT - The dubious climate gains of turning soil into a carbon sink

    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...
  7. Agriland RSS

    Aberystwyth University land use project receives £6.25m

    Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland A project centred on land use involving academics from Aberystwyth University has received £6.25 million of funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The ‘Land Use for Net Zero’ (LUNZ) Hub is co-led by The James Hutton Institute and the...
  8. Direct Driller Magazine

    Direct Driller Issue 25 - out now

    Direct Driller Soils Magazine Issue 25 Welcome to Issue 25 of Direct Driller Magazine which includes a supplement on adjuvant technology and features a summary of our Covering Soils event in September (including links to all the video content from the talks). For those that don't get a printed...
  9. Agriland RSS

    Has the potential of soils to sequester carbon been overestimated?

    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...
  10. D

    Maximising Output Per Acre is The Way to Reduce Carbon Footprint

    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...
  11. skye @ bofin

    Establishing your Carbon Baseline

    An important part of the NCS project is to encourage and support 200 UK farmers to establish their farm carbon baseline using the Farm Carbon Toolkit. This thread will give some great tips and links to help you complete your carbon baseline. We encourage you to use this thread to ask for help...
  12. Agriland RSS

    Societal impact of changes in agriculture must be assessed – Boyle

    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...
  13. D

    Blue Monday

    At 10am tomorrow, the UK livestock industry finds itself in the dock. Campaign group Feedback have secured a judicial review of the Government's failure to implement mandatory reductions in meat and dairy in order to meet climate change targets. Carina Millstone, Executive Director of...
  14. D

    Do you calculate your farm carbon footprint?

    Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?
  15. Agriland RSS

    Farmers in NI receive estimates of carbon stored in their soils

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Soil analysis results and accompanying field maps have been distributed to farmers who took part in Northern Ireland’s largest baseline soil sampling programme. Full analysis results are now available for the 132,775 fields which were included in the...
  16. Agriland RSS

    Soil health remains a ‘Cinderella’ subject – expert

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Soil health remains a ‘Cinderella’ subject, relative to air and water quality, as policy makers strive to legislate for sustainable farming systems, according to one expert. Pieter-Jan Schon, the director of Environment and Marine Sciences at the...
  17. S

    "Sustainability is the license to trade"

    I've been mulling over this statement as it is one that has been bandied around in the face of the GFC heist. Quick google shows it means nothing really. I'm pretty sure it is related to the ESG requirements for large business' with a turnover of over 500 million or have over 500 employees...
  18. CPM RSS

    Soil carbon programme now open

    Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Farmers are invited to enter a soil carbon programme in readiness for Harvest 2024. AgreenaCarbon helps farmers to finance their transition to regenerative practices and is now opening its fourth year, with more than 1M hectares being registered with...
  19. Agriland RSS

    Going ultra shallow with Sky Agriculture

    Written by Justin Roberts from Agriland Over the last couple of years we have seen tremendous interest being shown by manufacturers of conventional tillage implements in new machines that are designed to operate at shallow depths. The motivation behind this new enthusiasm is the desire to save...
  20. Agreena

    Realisation that ploughing destroys the natural seed bed

    Realisation that ploughing destroys the natural seed bed pushes Fraser Bush to min-till, carbon farming, a new revenue stream and less time on the tractor A lightbulb moment in 2019 for Wiltshire-based tenant farmer Fraser Bush whilst ploughing, changed the way he farmed as he realised that...
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