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Farming
Blazing new trails beyond the bushfires
The bushfires and climate extremes in Australia have devastated farmland and killed millions of animals, prompting new discussion about t...
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2020
Follow the links for films, write ups and press releases from the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2020
Why our love for avocados is not sustainable
Avocados have become synonymous with millennial culture but the increasingly international trade of the South American fruit comes with a...
SFT signs open letter to Prime Minister to protect food and farming standards
The Sustainable Food Trust, along with 63 other farming, health and environmental organisations, has signed an open letter from the NFU t...
A farmer’s view of the Oxford Real Farming Conference
Small farmer Julie Baber writes following the Oxford Real Farming Conference about the inspiration to be found when a diverse group of pe...
Unbalanced anti-meat coverage: A threat to sustainable farming?
The last two weeks has seen significant TV and radio coverage of issues relating to meat, not all of it well balanced. Sustainable Food T...
Bringing biodiversity back into farming
Earlier this year, the UN announced that 1 million species around the planet are at risk of extinction. What farmers do on their land has...
How alive is your soil? Start digging into the underworld to find out
We should all care about soil - it's a miracle substance that cleans water, prevents drought and flooding, sequesters carbon and produces...
What’s the problem with soil-less agriculture?
Why is our connection with the soil so important? Alicia Miller argues why soils' living, thriving ecology gives back to its environment ...
Why sustainable livestock farming is essential for a healthy planet
Ahead of the BBC 1 documentary, ‘Meat, A Threat to our Planet?’, Patrick Holden stresses the importance of differentiating between livest...
The antibiotic crisis – 50 years on
As the UK anticipates entering a new trading landscape, the overuse of antibiotics in human and animal medicine is an important matter of...
What I See: Mid-October views
Cotswold farmer Rosamund Young reflects on autumn, whereby walking to save damaging the soil provides the perfect opportunity to observe ...