New wind energy ‘turnkey’ deal offered to farmers, landowners and communities
SSE Renewables has launched a new product offering farmers, landowners and communities the opportunity to earn income for siting community scale wind turbines on their land. The offer, from SSE Renewables’ Commercial and Community Wind Team, is being formally launched at the Royal Highland Show today, Friday 25th June 2010 prior to an event at […]
Relaunch of gmo-safety.eu Revised website with optimised functions
Since 2001, the information portal gmo-safety.eu has, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, provided the interested public an insight into biosafety research in Germany. With over a million visits yearly, this internet website has developed into a central information platform on the safety of genetically modified plants. Since 8 June 2010 […]
Study highlights trees importance to fish as climate warms
Planting trees along stream banks could play an important part in protecting sensitive fish such as salmon and trout from rising temperatures as the climate warms, a new study has found. Salmon and trout are among the most temperature-sensitive of Britains native cold-water species, typically preferring water temperatures below 20?C. Temperatures greater than this cause […]
Red Tractor Week proves huge success
Red Tractor, the independent and not-for-profit scheme run by Assured Food Standards, celebrated its 10th birthday during Red Tractor Week, which ran from 14th-20th June. The campaign, which was fronted by Janet Street-Porter, has proved hugely successful for Red Tractor, generating significant media and consumer interest on a national level, as well as support from […]
Car industry executive joins JCB as Group Engineering Director
JCB has recruited one of the car industrys leading engineers to the position of Group Engineering Director. Michael Mohan, 44, has joined JCB, the worlds third largest construction equipment manufacturer, from Jaguar Land Rover, where he was Strategic Business Office Director. Michael joined Jaguar Cars in 1990 and had a distinguished career with the company […]
New biogas appointment
To help deal with the increasing number of enquiries for biogas plants Andrew Barkas has been appointed to a technical sales post by Rugeley, Staffordshire, based EnviTec Biogas UK Ltd. As well as his sales function, he will be particularly involved in liaising with customers and their agents during the planning process. This will involve […]
Dairy experts support drive for carbon reduction
Dairy industry experts have underlined how carbon reduction and improved efficiency can deliver real benefits to farmers. Speakers at Dairy UK’s carbon and farming conference held this week at Sixways Stadium in Worcester repeatedly reaffirmed that carbon reduction equated to improving efficiency. Conference co-Chairman Roger Evans said: “We’re talking about eliminating waste and doing things […]
Golden River Farms offer affordable eco friendly pig ark
After the huge success of their quality handcrafted pig arks, Golden River Farms have added a new product to their collection that they hope will appeal to environmentally conscious consumers; the Footprint Eco Pig Ark. The Footprint Eco Pig Ark is the latest offering from one of the UKs fastest growing retailers of pig housing, […]
Farming First Calls on G8/G20 Leaders to Put Food Security First for Sustainable Development
24 June 2010. Farming First welcomed the G8 commitments to food security taken in 2009 in LAquila and we urge leaders to renew these this year. We believe food security should be a recurring item on the G8/G20 agenda. Since the food crisis erupted in 2008, a large number of initiatives have been launched or […]
