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Biomass - Videos
This animated film demonstrates the need to protect the long term carbon stored in soils and...
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Did you know that over half of the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are nitrous oxide? Or...
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Biomass - Recent News
All press releases from Farming Futures are listed below. Please get in touch with us if you have a media enquiry. We can put you in touch with industry experts, provide farmer case studies across England, and give comment and opinion on stories.
Wed, 29/09/2010 - 10:23
50 FREE PLACES FOR FARMERS AND GROWERS!
The Sustainable Agricultural Partnerships summit is being held in London on 7-8th December and farmers and growers are encouraged to attend.
The aim of the summit is explore how farmers, growers,...
Fri, 03/09/2010 - 10:28
Did you know that over half of the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are nitrous oxide? Or that feeding livestock a healthy diet reduces the amount of methane they burp out?
Farming Futures launches a new animation today aimed at...
Biomass - Blogs
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Biomass
Biomass is defined as any organic material 
from plants or animals.
Biomass can be produced by farming, land management and forestry sectors and used for renewable energy generation.
Further information:
- See our focus on biomass factsheet
- Case studies on: Eric Wall, John Baarda Ltd, and Parkers Nurseries.
- Click here for Richard Harvey's focus on biomass presentation which was given at our biomass event on 5th November 2008
- Click here for Richard Harvey's presentation on biomass heating for farms given on 13th January at the 'business case for renewable energy' workshop at Burrough court on 13th January 2010
Biomass - Factsheets
This factsheet provides an introduction to some of the issues that are going to be a significant part of the future of UK farming. It outlines some of the headline challenges that we are going to have to deal with, but also the...
Ideas on mitigating climate change.
Information on the opportunities and challenges presented by climate change for arable farmers with suggestions on building the resilience of your business and reducing GHG emissions.Biomass - Case Studies
Since growing his first miscanthus crop nearly a decade ago, Tim Barton (pictured with his wife Carolyn) now uses its yield as a means of heating his...
Amongst his many interests, Fred Walter is a director of Coppice Resources Ltd, a company specialising in the production of short rotation coppice (...
Philip Pearson is a tomato grower in Cheshire. Investing in a wealth of renewable technologies, he has taken a whole farm approach to reducing the...