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RICHARD GEDGE: WIND & BIOMASS
Richard Gedge, a beef and sheep farmer based in Exmoor uses both wind and biomass to power and heat his farm. With a payback period of 5 years and huge environmental benefits, Richard believes that more farmers should be exploiting renewable technology to gain profits for their businesses.
Watch our Farming Futures ‘must-view’ video case study of Richard’s farm here
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...