Sustainability is surely the thing on which the world needs to concentrate.
Measuring carbon etc. is surely all smoke and mirrors compared to showing that you live, work or produce in a manner that is [at least in the main] , infinitely repeatable.
It is clear that everybody has a view on what...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
A miscanthus farm walk based in east Yorkshire will facilitate discussions on future proofing and Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) payments.
Organised by miscanthus specialist Terravesta, the farm walk will be held on east Yorkshire farmer Rob...
New agricultural subsidies being piloted in the UK, which aim to reward the provision of public goods on farmland, are making it more difficult for English farmers carrying out ‘carbon farming’ practices to engage with private investment schemes, say experts.
According to a policy briefing by...
An adaptive and education-based approach to regenerative farming can enhance soil carbon cycling with the potential to rapidly increase farm productivity, says Tom Dillon, director of Regenerate Outcomes.
“Using soil tests from Eurofins Agro UK, we are partnering with farms to help enable a...
CLA Land Use Policy Adviser Matthew Doran picks out the key details of the government’s recent Biomass Strategy and explains what it means for members
Written by Matthew Doran. First published on August 18th, 2023.
Last week, the UK Government published its long-awaited Biomass Strategy, which...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
Regenerative farming can enhance soil carbon cycling and has the potential to rapidly increase farm productivity.
This is according to Tom Dillion, director of Regenerate Outcomes – a company that supports farms during their transition to...
Inside this issue:
Direct Driller Magazine: Issue 22 Contents
Direct Driller Issue 22 – Introduction
Agricultural Revolutions
Featured Farmer – Andy Cato
How much do you understand your weather forecast?
The myths around carbon standards
Replaceable coulter tip tines reduce metal wastage and so...
Farmers receive carbon payments for the second harvest year
Farmer participation on the Agreena platform grew 4x for HY 2022 while increased farmland enrollment by existing members accounted for 20% of Agreena’s overall portfolio growth.
Agtech company Agreena, whose soil carbon platform is...
4 Front Farming Co Ltd becomes the latest site to join our network of Demonstration Farms, set up to showcase more sustainable, regenerative farming methods.
The company was established in 2017, when four neighbouring farmers in Fife, all LEAF members, joined forces to use economies of scale to...
Credit: Electrek
Crop biotechnology has significantly reduced agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by helping farmers adopt more sustainable practices such as reduced tillage, which decreases the burning of fossil fuels and retains more carbon in the soil according to my recently...
A compact technology which uses a laser to generate a ‘plasma plume’ from soil samples could offer a solution to the challenge of measuring soil carbon on agricultural land.
A team based at Tampere University in Finland developed the mobile device based on the principles of laser-induced...
Through its recent investment of over $3 billion in agricultural climate smart grant projects, the US government has implicitly acknowledged that our land, with its natural ability to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, must be part of the solution to climate change. But designing projects to...
Paddy Tarbuck
Net Zero challenge
In CIEL’s previous Net Zero & Livestock reports, we highlighted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions sources from the agriculture sector and explored existing efforts to reduce sector-by-sector emissions in livestock, from grassland management in sheep farming to...
biodiversity
carbon
environmental
gas
grassland
health
management
methane
nutrition
parts
pig
precision agriculture
residual
sequestration
sheep
slurry
soilcarbonsoil health
The Broadbalk Winter Wheat experiment was established in 1843 to better understand the impact of adding varying amounts of manure or man-made fertiliser on both wheat yields and the soil it was grown from. Still running today, the experiment has seen various additions and modifications to help...
Current payments available for ‘carbon farming’ approaches are unlikely to prove a sufficient incentive for farmers in the U.S. — but quantifying and rewarding the benefits beyond climate mitigation could help to overcome this.
That’s according to a report from the Center for Growth and...
Although many of us associate carbon offsetting schemes with planting trees, there is an increasing focus on restoring soil carbon. Improving the health of soils, particularly on agricultural land, enables them to be more productive, to host more lifeforms and to sequester more carbon, making...
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