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Tim Barton: Focus on biomass and energy crops
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 Wiltshire-based Wadswick Country Store business. With savings made on rising energy costs, Tim can reliably heat his buildings by adding a miscanthus bale to the boiler each day. With other uses for the harvested miscanthus (such as animal bedding and large-scale commercial energy production), Tim continues to increase the acreage of his farm given over to this crop. In this case study, Tim talks about the motivation behind his own biomass project...
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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
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