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News & Blogs - May 2010
The Environment Agency has warned that the north and west of the UK could reach full drought status by the end of June, due to recent high temperatures and five months of below average rainfall. Some places have been receiving as little as 13% of lon...
Did you know it takes 2.5 times more energy to produce a tonne of ammonium nitrate fertiliser than the energy contained within it? No wonder it has become so inflationary. As more farmers are measuring the carbon footprint of their businesses,...
Twitter has been a vital resource for travellers stranded due to the volcanic ash cloud over the UK. Twitterers used the site to coordinate car shares and one traveller made a plea on the site for someone to give up their seat on Eurostar as he was t...
When I first started working on the Farming Futures project back in July of last year, agriculture was in the middle of what may in years to come be seen as a revolution.
The Low Carbon Transition Plan, the Renewable Energy Strategy, and Food 2030 no...
For a few years now, some UK fruit growers (particularly blackcurrants and hops) have been concerned about rising winter temperatures. Their worry is that inadequate winter chilling may be interfering with the normal processes of reproductive...
The fight against mitigating the effects of climate change has brought a new threat to the beef and sheep producer – a new type of vegetarian. Until recently, those who decided not to eat meat did it because they saw the rearing of animals for...
Billions of people are talking, sharing, selling, flirting, and arguing online every second of every day. And the fastest growing bit of the internet is social networks says a Nielsen report from 2009. Two thirds of the world’s internet populat...
Buying a small farm in Wiltshire in 2004 represented the realisation of a longstanding personal ambition. Originally a dairy farm (from the mid-19th Century onwards), it had not been actively farmed for over a decade and the infrastructure (farm buil...