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Pig Farming a Gamble, says NPA

2016-01-19 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - Current low feed prices are doing nothing to reduce pig producers’ losses, reports the National Pig Association. Nearly all are losing another £7 on every slaughter pig they produce as a result of buying wheat and soya forward last year, when it appeared prices had reached their lowest point.

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Land sparing farming could offset agricultural carbon emissions

2016-01-17 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ars Technica: Agriculture is not responsible for the bulk of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions; that honor goes to more fossil-fuel intensive activities like transportation and generating electricity. Even still, greenhouse gas emissions from global agriculture are climbing by 1 percent a year. Humans did once upon a time live without HDTVs and Hummerswe could do so again, at least in theorybut people will always have to eat. This makes reducing agricultural emissions particularly difficult. Researchers in...

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UK tree-planting push could offset farming footprint study

2016-01-12 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: British scientists have worked out how to turn agricultural land which currently produces 10% of the nations greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink that soaks up carbon dioxide. The answer is simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce...

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OFC: Can UK Farming Afford to Leave the EU?

2016-01-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - The UK could grow the rural economy, improve the environment and protect the country from plant and animal diseases if it was outside the European Union, according to the former environment secretary Owen Paterson.

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