Written by Tom Allen-Stevens
UK crop producers have crowned their first Climate Change Champion. Tom Allen-Stevens reports. Al Brooks has been awarded the accolade of CPM Climate Change Champion 2020, the first time such an award has been made to a UK arable farmer. Estate director of the Faccombe Estate in Hants, he was selected by CPM readers from nine growers whose progress on their journey to net zero has been profiled in the magazine. The estate follows an “edge-to-edge asset approach”, notes Al, with all aspects of its farming, forestry and other enterprises dovetailing together to build a truly sustainable community. Full details were featured in CPM March 2020 issue. The Faccombe Estate follows an edge-to-edge asset approach to building a sustainable community. Al was announced as the overall carbon-friendly arable farmer of 2020 by Defra farming minister Victoria Prentis at a round table event, organised by CPM, on Thursday 29 October. The event was hosted by NFU, which supports CPM’s Climate Change Champions initiative, and brought together the experiences of eight of the progressive champion farmers as well as views from across the arable sector on priorities for 2021 and beyond. “This is our time,” noted NFU president Minette Batters who introduced…
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