2022

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.

Joe Stanley reports on another successful Open Farm Sunday at the Allerton Project.

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.

Alastair Leake, GWCT Head of Policy, explains more about a project to establish a Hedgerow Carbon Code that benefits carbon storage and biodiversity.