Heathrow in Vertal take-off
Food waste from Heathrow Airport is to be used to grow new crops, under a new scheme set up by BAA and recycling innovators Vertal. Coffee grinds, potato peelings, egg shells, chicken bones – all by-products from catering to Heathrows 180,000 passengers a day – will be collected separately in cafs and restaurants, and sent […]
Red Tractor assurance for biofuels will aid growers in the marketplace
A new scheme, which could see farm assurance for biofuels, is being submitted to the EU Commission by Assured Food Standards this autumn. The extension to the Red Tractor Assured Combinable Crops and Sugar Beet Scheme has been welcomed by the NFU who says the move, if successful, could give British growers a head start in […]
Testing time for new woodland carbon assurance scheme
The Forestry Commission is about to test a new quality assurance scheme for tree planting projects designed to sequester carbon. The market for such projects is increasing but, until now, there have been no standards to measure their claims against, or to ensure that real benefits will accrue. The new Woodland Carbon Code will encourage […]
Dont cut the life from our countryside!
Dont cut the life from our countryside that is the message the RSPB is taking to the doorsteps of ministers this week in the run up to the Governments Comprehensive Spending Review. Campaigners will be out in the constituencies of The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, Cabinet Office minister, Oliver Letwin and Secretary of […]
Stubble fields can boost threatened birds
With harvest currently under way across the country farmers are being urged to give a helping hand to birds by leaving stubble over the winter. While some farmers will be planning to sow a new crop in the ground in autumn, others will be waiting until the spring to re-sow. RSPB farmland advisors are asking […]
2010 UPM Timber Bulletin – Out Now
The 2010 UPM Tilhill Timber Bulletin: ‘Trends and influences on the UK standing coniferous timber sales market’ is out now. The bulletin, published as an aid to growers and forest managers, shows how cyclical the industry currently is and also that those cycles are getting shorter. Timber prices have recovered well beyond our forecast, largely […]
Home-grown biofuel best, says CLA
The CLA today (11 August) urged the Government to guarantee biofuels imported from outside the UK meet the high environmental standards demanded from inside the UK. The Association backed the latest report from the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) which said that more than three quarters of biofuels used in the UK meet no environmental standards […]
