Despite the pandemic and the likely economic crises in its wake, people continue to experience a growing anxiety concerning greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate change, which extends to include farms and food production. While farming, and the process of photosynthesis, is one of the few ways of reducing CO2, livestock production and soil cultivation release …
There is so much talk about carbon at the moment, and there is no doubt that farmers will make some income by changing practices to sequester a bit more carbon. Buying HVO versions of Red Diesel is just an example of a way to do this. It costs you are little more to fill the …
Written by Wayne D. Rasmussen and published with kind consent of the USDA National Agricultural Library On May 15, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing “at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture.” Two and one-half years later, in what was to be his last …
Written By Steve Ridsdale Combinable crop direct drillers have found ways to cut establishment costs, whilst at the same time aiming to increase the resilience and productive capacity of their soils. At the other end of the production cycle, comes our output in the form of crop sales. We want to be competitive producers and …
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As a reader of the magazine, we are sure you appreciate good quality, nutrient dense food, but it isn’t always that easy to know where to buy from. We are introducing this feature to highlight those farms who are selling direct and therefore maximising their profits, not just benefitting the wider supply chains. We would …
If you are like us, then you don’t know where to start when it comes to other reading apart from farming magazines.However, there is so much information out there that can help us understand our businesses, farm better andunderstand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more books you might find interesting, challenge …
Substituting the plough, power harrow, sub-soiler and cultivator for a one-pass machine makes sense for any farm. Creating a soil environment which allows nature to do the hard work is, as we all know, beneficial to farm profitability, farming lives, greenhouse gas emissions, birds and bees. These benefits fit with the thinking of Defra minister …
We have featured articles on many different types of robots that will at some point influence the way we farm, but have the simple wins in the arable world have been ignored? Possibly because they don’t benefit the trade, maybe they are simply a bad idea or maybe a bit of both. However, if the …
Written by Jon Williams from www.thesoilexpert.co.uk An old adage of farming practice we need to pay attention to with our management of our slurry and manures for the benefit of the environment and our farm business. With increasing attention focused on the environmental impact of food production methods currently in practice and the industrialisation of …
Is the adoption of IPM (integrated pest management) a journey? A journey of change required to react to changing market demands; a journey of learning, stemming from wanting to do something different to protect natural Beneficial’s and predators; a journey to increasing profitability from the production of a crop grown to an IPM enhanced standard? …
