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29/3/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Advice , Farming
Last week, applications opened for the 2024 Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier scheme, providing grants to farmers and land managers to improve the wildlife potential of their land and enhance their natural capital. The scheme supports a range of enhanced environmental outcomes from restoring wildlife habitats and creating woodlands, to managing flood risk.
24/3/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project
The GWCT Allerton Project is a 320ha mixed arable and livestock farm based around the small village of Loddington on the Leicestershire/Rutland border (and not to be confused with Loddington in Northamptonshire).
8/3/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology
The health of our soil literally and metaphorically underlies the ecosystem on which we all depend. Not least, it is fundamental to farming.
6/3/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project
The Allerton Project team recently attended the Low Carbon Agriculture event at the NAEC Stoneleigh to represent the AgriCaptureCO2 project, an EU Horizon 2020 programme of which we have been a member since 2020.
24/1/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
This is the first of a sequence of blog posts based on chapters from Farming with the Environment: Thirty Years of Allerton Project Research. Logically enough, I am starting at the beginning, not the beginning of the Allerton Project, but the earliest evidence we have for agricultural activity on the farm at Loddington in Leicestershire.
10/10/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project
It's UK Soils Awareness Week 2022 from 10-16th October and we recently hosted a fascinating webinar on soil carbon with Professor David Powlson, who led the research on carbon cycling at Rothamsted Research. You can watch the video of the webinar here.
20/9/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
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.
26/8/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
Joe Stanley reports on another successful Open Farm Sunday at the Allerton Project.
17/8/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
Once again, growers have been struggling in recent weeks with what has been for most yet another prolonged period of dry weather, broken only sporadically and in postcode lottery fashion by heavy showers winging in from the Atlantic.
29/7/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Shop
The book is a detailed but accessible account of the wide range of agri-environmental research that we have carried out since the project started in 1992. Topics covered include farmland ecology, the design of new management practices to enhance farmland wildlife, soil management and health, catchment management, and water quality and ecology and much more.
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