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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Forest Farming
2017-01-30 16:28:26| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, Director of Conservation Policy and NFU Foundation Last week, the Climate Column discussed one practice, alley cropping, that builds climate resilience of farmland by incorporating trees. The National Agroforesty Center (NAC) promotes other such practices, including forest farming. Forest farming is the cultivation of high-value specialty crops under the protection of a forest canopy that has been […]
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Access to Land: Farming for a Paycheck
2017-01-03 18:55:40| National Farmers Union
By Jimmy Dula, NFU Intern Among the many alternative agricultural economic models that have cropped up in recent years, farming for a paycheck has become increasingly common. Unlike traditional farming models, in which a producers self-generated income is contingent on crop yields and sales, in this arrangement, a third party guarantees producers a fixed salary […]
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Bright Ideas to Shape the Future of Farming Wanted
2016-12-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Farmers: Do you have a bright idea which needs some help to develop? Or a project that’s already under way which could be rolled out across the industry? If so, the Rothamsted Open Innovation Forum wants to hear from you. It is seeking to bring together innovators, researchers and investors to turn bright ideas into reality to help the agricultural industry meet the challenges of the future.
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Investors Take Action to Manage Antibiotic Overuse Risk in Farming
2016-11-17 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - To mark World Antibiotic Awareness Week a new investor briefing has been released highlighting the risks to global investors from the systematic overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming.
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Medics Urge More Action on Antibiotics in Farming
2016-11-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Fifteen of the UK's most senior medics have called on the government to tackle "routine misuse of antibiotics in UK farming", in a letter published in The Telegraph to mark the start of World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
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