soil health
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We cannot move forward with ‘business as usual’ for nature
Our collective response to today’s twin nature and climate crises will determine the future of our economy and society, writes a group of business leaders. [Theophilos Papadopoulos / Flickr] The EU’s flagship Nature Restoration Law provides a vital opportunity to fill the nature gap in the...- TFF
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- Category: Regenerative Agriculture
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Regenerative Agriculture Offers Pathway to More Sustainable & Equitable Food Systems
By Romano De Vivo, Vice President of Sustainability Food systems face many challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth, and dietary changes. Balancing trade-offs in such a complex landscape can be daunting, especially when striving to increase productivity...- TFF
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- Category: Regenerative Agriculture
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Farmers Discuss How To Scale Up Intercropping In UK And Beyond
Intercropping, sometimes known as polycropping, is the practice of growing two or more plant species simultaneously in the same field. It can boost crop yields by up to 30%, reduce weeds, improve soil health and increase biodiversity. In a field lab run in 2019, intercropping beans and wheat...- TFF
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- Category: Regenerative Agriculture
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What is the UK Government’s Green Finance Strategy?
Tom Price Trainee Analyst See full bio With the UK increasingly being impacted by climate change and biodiversity loss, the UK government has outlined plans to mobilise funding to ensure the environmental objectives set out in the Environmental Improvement Plan are met. This plan is the 2023... -
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02.20 onwards That's why ELMS is a sh!tfest. Not because of the Goldsmiths, or Carrie, or Packham, or the Moonbat, or Craig Bennett, or Tony Juniper. Because of farmers putting it into the head of @Janet Hughes Defra that there are 'good' and 'bad' ways of farming. That's why countless...- delilah
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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who is going to defend DEFRA on this one?
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/government-taken-to-court-over-meat-and-dairy-emissions- onesiedale
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- Forum: Agricultural Matters
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Lungworm
Is anyone else seeing a high challenge at the moment? Very rarely do we worm any stock over 9 months old but I have a significant chunk of the milking cows coughing at the moment. They have no other symptoms, no runny noses or eyes and no temperature or milk drop yet so we think lungworm is...- Cows 'n grass
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- Forum: Dairy Farming
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Expanded offer of the Sustainable Farming Incentive to roll out from August
Expanded offer of the Sustainable Farming Incentive to roll out from August Written by Defra Press Office There has been widespread trade coverage in Farmers Weekly Farmers Guardian, Farming UK, Pig World, The Grocer and Business Green on yesterday’s announcement of changes to the...- GOV.UK RSS
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Gaining value from better farm information, collaboration and trusted data sharing 2023-06-23
In this blog post, we will explore the ways in which data sharing is transforming the agricultural industry and why it is so important. Farmers and producers around the world are facing mounting pressure to adapt to the sustainability and climate change agenda, which is placing increasing...