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Given the ongoing challenges posed by extreme weather conditions – particularly the widespread drought affecting much of the UK’s growing season – now is an ideal time to explore the potential benefits of rainwater harvesting on your farm. As average temperatures rise and weather patterns become less predictable, making the most of the UK’s naturally ...
Kellogg’s, a Cool Farm Alliance member for many years, has used the Cool Farm Tool to simulate the effect of different changes in management practices and their potential to reduce carbon emissions from agricultural production. In a recent study, Kellogg’s has shown that introducing realistic changes to management practices on farm can make a significant contribution to meeting UK ...
Field margins are increasingly seen as conservation areas for biodiversity improvement in arable farming. This priority habitat has plants sown deliberately to provide food and cover for pollinators, birds and other farmland wildlife to thrive or permanent grassland and meadow. ...
Sub-Saharan Africa, where some of the world’s poorest live is hardest-hit by the water crisis, with 90% of the rural population depending on agriculture as the main source of income and more than 95% of arable farming relies on rainfall. Rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall caused by climate change have lowered crop yields. ...
Location: Gourmet Mokai Ltd, Taupo, New Zealand Application context: Greenhouse (Food production > Arable Farms) Problem definition: Fruit and crop damage caused by sparrows Pest bird species: Sparrows (Passeridae) Time of year bird presence: All year round Time of day bird presence: From sunrise to sunset No. of birds before installation: 50 to 70 ...
The North-Netherlands has a combination of strengths: good seaports, a chemicals and plastics cluster, a strong arable farming sector and plenty of room to expand livestock farming. ...
How can the benefits of precision agriculture be advanced to countries where arable land is in abundance but inefficient farming methods are limiting the crop output such that farmers are barely able to meet their own needs? ...
In early March we visited W. and J. Schutte on their arable farm in Nagele, the Netherlands. The agricultural countryside in the Northeast Polder region is beautiful, and the sun is shining. ...
The annual 12,000 tonnes a year of slurry from the 22,000 a year pig-finishing unit on Bedfordia Farms provides the liquid fraction for this AD unit and solved the problem of how to dispose of the slurry in an environmentally sustainable way from the farm. ...
Part of the reason for digesting manure is so that it can be transferred from areas of intensive animal production to arable farming areas. The WwTW of Fredericia in Denmark had conventional mesophilic anaerobic digestion. ...
The simulations suggest that in the lowlands, seasonal patterns in the stream water NO3–N concentrations emerge and are dominated by diffuse agricultural inputs, with an estimated 75% of the river load in the lowlands derived from arable farming. The results confirm earlier European catchment studies. ...
Here, by means of an agronomic analysis performed on 60 farms, we show the relevance of the following variables: proportion of arable land, technical performance of the farm, and quality certification of farm produce. In parallel, we analyse the local governance of wastewater sludge spreading: the regulations brought into force ...
In Sachsen (Germany) the general limitations on all farms in the programme led to a reduction in yield of 7% for arable crops, with lower yields for farms which adhered to more demanding measures. ...
This is not surprising as arable farming is the main use of agricultural land in the Netherlands. Considered sector by sector, the decrease in use (in terms of weight of active ingredient) since 1992 is significant for vegetables in the open (- 19 %), mushrooms (- 13 %), arable farming (- 12 %), and in nurseries (- 5 %). On the ...