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    Farm Management Handbook 2020/21

    The 41st edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, rural professionals, students…

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    Photo of a cupped handful of soil. Growing out of the soil is a young tree sapling that has rolls of paper money notes attached to the main stem. The photo is titled 'Money Tree' and the photo makes it look like the hand is holding a tree that is growing paper money!
    Photo of a cupped handful of soil. Growing out of the soil is a young tree sapling that has rolls of paper money notes attached to the main stem. The photo is titled 'Money Tree' and the photo makes it look like the hand is holding a tree that is growing paper money!

    Farm Woodlands Information Sheet: Woodland Creation and Carbon Sales

    With the strengthening global concern around climate change and the impact our emissions are having across the globe, companies and countries alike are searching for a solution to try cool our climate and capture the vast quantities of CO2 that have been created since the industrial revolution. Trees have the potential to play a major part in the global effort to solve the climate crisis we currently face.

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    Keeping Pace with Green Policy

    For over ten years, Scottish agriculture has come to recognise the importance of sustainable management of the farmed environment, mainly in response to the growing climate crisis and biodiversity decline.…

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    Case Study: Improving Fuel use; Hydrolyser Technology

    David Barron farms at Nether Aden in the northeast of Scotland with a keen interest in how new technology could also help him to cut emissions and improve the farm carbon footprint. David looked into this in more detail
    and with support from Scottish Government under the Focus Farm project, installed a hydrogen electrolyser on one of the farm vehicles to see if he can improve fuel use and reduce emissions.

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