Issue 13April 2021

Agri-Environment Subsidies Provide More Stable Farm Incomes Than Direct Payments

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Full Paper published by Caroline Harkness, Francisco J. Areal. Mikhail A. Semeno, Nimai Senapati, Ian F. Shield, Jacob Bishop Subsidies paid to farmers for protecting the environment lead to more stable incomes compared with payments based purely on the number of hectares being farmed, according to a new study of farms in England and Wales. […]

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Drill Manufacturers In Focus…

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ANOTHER EXCEPTIONALLY WET WINTER HIGHLIGHTS THE BENEFITS OF GOOD SOIL STRUCTURE AND DRAINAGE. Following another extremely wet winter Jeff Claydon, a Suffolk farmer and inventor of the Opti-Till® direct strip seeding system, talks about the importance of good soil structure and drainage. He also discusses the initial results of stubble management and cover crop trials

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Carbon Capture Technology Faces A Difficult Few Years

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Written by IDTechEx Research Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is either stored permanently underground (carbon storage) or it is used for a

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Soil Health Matters

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Soil health is a product of interactions between plant roots and the living fraction of the soil, operating within the constraints of the physical, chemical and climatic parameters of the soil environment, writes Neil Douglas Fuller of the Atlas Sustainable Soil Programme. In part, soil health is determined by the inherent, effectively fixed, properties of

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