Climate change
Renewable Energy: Anaerobic Digestion – A HiFEN Climate Change Focus Farms event
Renewable Energy – Anaerobic Digestion This is the next of a series of planned meeting for the HiFEN* Climate Change Focus Farms. Anaerobic Digestion as a renewable energy source...
Drainage – All you wanted to know but were afraid to ask (Glenluce)
Drainage is a cornerstone to good soil care It is well recognised that without proper drainage you do not get the best out of fertiliser inputs therefore crop yields suffer. Effective drainage...
Kintyre Soil and Nutrient Network Meeting
Improving Farm Soils and Making Best Use of Nutrients This is the first of three meetings over the next 18 months. These will look at the basics of soil and...
Making The Most of Manures & Composts – Climate Change Focus Farm Meeting (Mintlaw)
Making the Most of Manures & Composts – Farming for a Better Climate Focus Farm Meeting Come along to the next Climate Change Focus Farm meeting for Nether Aden Farm. The...
Aberdeenshire Soil and Nutrient Network Meeting
Improving farm soils and making best use of nutrients can make your business more efficient, it can also help to reduce diffuse pollution risks. This also demonstrates that you are...
Update on focus farms
We are now over a year into the second round of the Scottish Government funded climate change focus farms project as part of the Farming for a Better Climate initiative.
Agri Environment and Climate Scheme: water margins in grassland and arable fields
The Agri-Environment Climate Scheme is a competitive scheme that promotes land management practices which protect and enhance Scotland’s natural heritage, improve water quality, manage flood risk and mitigate and adapt to climate change.
New focus farms
From grassland profitability to improving livestock performance and making savings on the fuel bill, we are working with nine new volunteer focus farmers and their discussion groups to exchange ideas to help improve overall farm profitability, whilst lowering the carbon footprint.
Benchmarking brings better efficiency
By benchmarking farm performance using resource efficiency tool AgRE Calc©, previous Farming for a Better Climate beef and sheep focus farm hosts David and Morag Houstoun at Glenkilrie in Perthshire, were able to save around £11,000 through small changes to current practices, and knocked around 10% off their carbon footprint.