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Farming
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 ...
Why sustainable farming needs Government support
In this short film, Patrick Holden outlines why the Government needs to make sustainable farming a financially viable option.
Silvopasture: The benefits of integrating livestock and trees
Despite being widely practised for many thousands of years, silvopasture could be classed as a lost art in the UK, where we have tended t...
Trees in the field: Taking farming to a new dimension
Marianne Landzettel meets Stephen Briggs, whose adoption of silvopasture has turned his farm from an intensive monoculture arable system ...
Animal Rebellion: Does it need to be ‘us or them’?
In this opinion piece, Joanna Blythman challenges Animal Rebellion on their planned protests against livestock farming, arguing that they...
Finding our common ground and common purpose
Director of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Sue Pritchard, explains why now more than ever, we need collaboration between s...
The new farm size dilemma: A nutrition perspective
In Rebecca Elderkin's second piece on farm size, she explores how the trend towards 'mega-farms' impacts the nutritional quality of food ...
National Farmers’ Union sets out plan for achieving net zero
This week, the National Farmers' Union published their plan for achieving net zero emissions from UK agriculture by 2040
Farms and public health: Does size matter?
Farm size is increasing, while the number of farms is decreasing. Rebecca Michael Elderkin asks "does the topic of farm size pertain excl...
Agriculture and a climate of change
This short film captures some of our favourite moments from the Farming and Climate Change conference