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The production and application of non-nitrogen fertilisers adds a further 10% to our average farm’s GHG footprint. From this we can see that optimisation and reduction of the use of fertilisers holds the key to reducing the climate impact of arable production.
It was a real pleasure to be involved in LEAF’s (Linking the Environment & Farming’s) Open Farm Sunday this year on 12th June.
Once again, growers have been struggling in recent weeks with what has been for most yet another prolonged period of dry weather. A look at the Met Office data for 2022 shows that the spectre of climate change hangs over us on a now constant basis.
It is encouraging to see the results of a long-term study of wildlife on a large commercial arable farm in England, on Tuesday 2nd August.
Professor Chris Stoate, head of research, talks to Kate Williams about the impact of the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm and providing a blueprint for future rural landscapes.
Local people joined liverymen of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers on 24 March 2022 at the Allerton Project in Loddington, Leicestershire, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the pioneering research and demonstration farm.
Despite national declines, moths at the Allerton Project are going from strength to strength. John Szczur explains why.
The crop drill has been busy here at the Allerton Project, with farmers across the country relieved to experience a ‘normal’ autumn drilling season for the first time since 2018 – or at least a ten day window into which frenzied work has been committed! The key winter crops of barley and wheat have been successfully established in good soil conditions – the single biggest factor in the ultimate success of any crop.