Protecting water and promoting farmland biodiversity high on the agenda on MP visit to Research Farm
Angela Smith, Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge, visited Bayer CropScience’s research farm near Cambridge this week to discuss the key topics of protecting water courses and promoting farmland biodiversity. Ms Smith MP, who is the Shadow Water, Fisheries and Animal Welfare Minister met with Alice Johnston and Dr Julian Little from Bayer CropScience, […]
Friends of the Earth takes first legal steps on pesticides decision
Friends of the Earth has taken the first formal legal steps over the Government’s decision to permit the use of bee-harming pesticides in England despite a Europe-wide ban. The group has written a judicial review pre-action letter to Secretary of State for the Environment, Liz Truss MP, as the prospective defendant. The action has been […]
Wildflower attraction boosts pollinator numbers
Farmers are making a huge contribution to increasing pollinator populations with new Operation Pollinator seed mixtures for field margins and pollinator habitats. The new areas established are already delivering a greater diversity of wildflower food sources, and supporting important pollinating insects. With Pollinator Awareness Week events occurring across Europe this week (13-19 July 2015), leading […]
Julia Roberts urges consumers worldwide to help Save Our Soils
Julia Roberts becomes the latest ‘Soilebrity’ to back the Save Our Soils campaign, which aims to alert consumers to urgent need to end irresponsible farming practices. ‘By the time you’ve read this, 9,378 m² of fertile soil has been destroyed.’ This is the message being delivered by Julia Roberts as she becomes the latest in […]
Power lines permanently ‘airbrushed’ from film set scenery
A Surrey landscape picked as a filming location for Nanny McPhee and War Horse has just undergone further improvements. Electricity distributor, UK Power Networks, has permanently rerouted 1.4 miles of overhead power lines underground at Painshill Farm, Dunsfold, to improve views in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The £290,000 project was […]
New study finds 40% of UK imports come from countries with areas of high water risk
Businesses must secure their future by addressing the mounting global water crisis, experts will say today (19th May) at the launch of WWF-UK’s report ‘From Risk to Resilience: Does your business know its water risk?’. UK industry is being urged to assess supply chains both within the UK and internationally to discover where they might […]
Help for farmers to stop losing nutrients
Farmers in England can benefit from a new guide to help them stop soil and manure running off their land. It’s published today online by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), supported by Natural England’s Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) project. Many farmers already have measures in place to protect waterbodies from run-off, so this guide […]
New scheme for farm waste
Exciting times are approaching for DBG Recycling and local farmer John Hodsman. Working in conjunction with Agri.cycle, DBG have opened a new site that will enable farmers to recycle farm waste which would otherwise end up in landfill. The new site situated at Westow will be run as a collection point by John Hodsman. John […]
Ice pigging technology offers dairy industry significant savings
New analysis published today by the Carbon Trust quantifies the benefits of introducing ‘ice pigging’, an innovative way of cleaning pipework using ice slurries, into commercial dairies to improve profitability and reduce environmental impact. The industry trials, funded by the Government’s Regional Growth Fund, were carried out at production facilities of Yeo Valley, a leading […]
