Topic: Environment [DA.SE.E]
Regenerative Dairying – Planning Now for Resilient Milk Production
Regenerative farming and its principles are increasingly appearing in milk contracts, buyer discussions, and supply chain sustainability strategies. For many dairy businesses, the question is…
Read More >Return of the Agri-Environmental Climate Scheme
On Tuesday 7th October this year the Scottish Government Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, Jim Fairlie, attended the first Nature Friendly Farming Summit in Edinburgh.…
Read More >Scotland’s Dairy Sector’s Progress Towards Net Zero 2045
The Scottish Government has released the latest figures for Scottish agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and nitrogen use for the accounting year 2022-23. The results…
Read More >MMN July 2024 – Carbon, Biodiversity and Regenerative Agriculture
Your Milk Buyers’ Plans and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve Milk companies, food manufacturers and food product retailers are increasingly aligning themselves with…
Read More >MMN March 2024 – Renewed Support for Slurry Storage
Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like support for slurry storage! Eagle-eyed readers of Milk Manager News will have noticed that it has been some time…
Read More >The Benefit of AECS for Dairy Farmers
With the announcement of the return of the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme , in what is, at the time of writing, the last confirmed funding round,…
Read More >MMN September 2023 – Nature Auditing and Restoration
From 2025, Scottish Government intends that 50% of a farm’s Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) support will be conditional on set nature outcomes. Currently it is…
Read More >Milk Manager News May 2023 – Get In On The Green
For a number of years now we have seen land prices driven to historic highs, pushed by incentives around tree planting and as a consequence,…
Read More >Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Dairy Enterprises
A carbon audit is a useful tool to help monitor the technical efficiencies of a dairy enterprise. The carbon footprint shows the level of greenhouse…
Read More >FAS Connect Sustainable Dairy Group Trip to Northern Ireland
In October I had the pleasure of taking a group of dairy farmers from FAS Connect’s “Sustainable Dairy Ayrshire” group on a short trip to…
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