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The Farming Futures blog is for farmers, land managers and their advisers to discuss and debate the issue of climate change and sustainability in agriculture.
We’re interested in how you think we can produce more food for a growing population in the context of Government targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, hotter, drier summers, higher energy and input prices, and the increased consumer interest in 'low carbon' food.
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News & Blogs - April 2010
These are not good days to be promoting renewable energy because of climate change. An atypically cold winter, coupled with dodgy emails from a leading research centre and an increasingly sceptical public, has rather taken the wind out of the sa...
Wheat grows easily enough out of the back of a combine so why do we need to move thousands of tonnes of soil every year with tillage in order to grow it?
Well we don't actually. And this is the premise of the farmer led No Till Alliance which...
At FAI Farms we have been working for the last 10 years on trying to develop low input systems to produce food animals (beef, lamb, chicken and pork) that are environmentally sustainable, economically profitable, and ethically sound.
It’s quite...